Especially on dark rides?
I remember one weekend at DL back in the Dark Ages, where I took uhh I think about 60 rolls of film shots, and I was pushing it. But add in AEB (layman's term: I took three shots for each scene to ensure correct exposure) and it doesn't seem like too much.
And Fantasmic, well, I had the DL show timed to be able to take three rolls. And the timing had to be perfect, because of the time to rewind the roll, pop out, and reload. And for Fantasmic I didn't use AEB - it was one shot or nothing.
Most point and clicks wouldn't give good pictures inside a ride, and people it seemed, weren't taking as many pics during rides/shows as they do now. Is is the "instant gratification" of digital or is it just the fact that now, for $150 plus a $18 memory card, you can get almost 700 pics with a quality rivaling the premier prosumer negative films for 4x6s?
I used to always chuckle inside when folks at DL took flash pics of Fantasmic!. Their flash wouldn't reach the island for one, and if it was the water screen, it would reflect off the water for their shot. Another favorite place for people to take ignorant flash pics is Grand Canyon/Primeval World - flash bounces right off the plexiglass, blinds everyone on the train, and the pic will be nothing but white.
Yet it still continues to this day. Flashes are easier to turn off now than they used to be (Those buttons, smaller than a fingernail, sheesh) but people (most, not all) still continue to ignore requests for no-flash photography. Granted there used to be CMs that were on the ball at DL and would use the intercom to get their attention, especially if it was an ongoing thing.
I went out of my way to not ruin the magic/show for other guests while I was doing my thing (like standing at the beginning of the standing area for Fantasmic! with my monopod) or not knocking them down to get a shot, etc. Others don't seem to give the courtesy, and it does ruin the show. Besides, we all know how pics of Pirates taken with a flash look. Fake, unreal, yada yada yada.
Personally, I like the options digital has given me. Now that I'm past the Microdrive phase (D30 included a microdrive as part of a rebate) where you had to wait seconds for the "buffer" (if you could call it that) to clear onto the card. But it sure held more pics than my 128 MB CF Type II card! And that cost me a pretty $60 back in the day! Now, hundreds of pics on a single memory card, and changing the card can be done faster than the rewind/reload phase of the EOS 3 or A2. And easier to just "delete" those missed shots. Harder to throw out a negative strip of 4 shots with 3 bad ones.
Sometimes I wish people would think a little more before they click.
Anyone else noticed this at the parks? More pics being taken now than five years or more ago?
I remember one weekend at DL back in the Dark Ages, where I took uhh I think about 60 rolls of film shots, and I was pushing it. But add in AEB (layman's term: I took three shots for each scene to ensure correct exposure) and it doesn't seem like too much.
And Fantasmic, well, I had the DL show timed to be able to take three rolls. And the timing had to be perfect, because of the time to rewind the roll, pop out, and reload. And for Fantasmic I didn't use AEB - it was one shot or nothing.
Most point and clicks wouldn't give good pictures inside a ride, and people it seemed, weren't taking as many pics during rides/shows as they do now. Is is the "instant gratification" of digital or is it just the fact that now, for $150 plus a $18 memory card, you can get almost 700 pics with a quality rivaling the premier prosumer negative films for 4x6s?
I used to always chuckle inside when folks at DL took flash pics of Fantasmic!. Their flash wouldn't reach the island for one, and if it was the water screen, it would reflect off the water for their shot. Another favorite place for people to take ignorant flash pics is Grand Canyon/Primeval World - flash bounces right off the plexiglass, blinds everyone on the train, and the pic will be nothing but white.
Yet it still continues to this day. Flashes are easier to turn off now than they used to be (Those buttons, smaller than a fingernail, sheesh) but people (most, not all) still continue to ignore requests for no-flash photography. Granted there used to be CMs that were on the ball at DL and would use the intercom to get their attention, especially if it was an ongoing thing.
I went out of my way to not ruin the magic/show for other guests while I was doing my thing (like standing at the beginning of the standing area for Fantasmic! with my monopod) or not knocking them down to get a shot, etc. Others don't seem to give the courtesy, and it does ruin the show. Besides, we all know how pics of Pirates taken with a flash look. Fake, unreal, yada yada yada.
Personally, I like the options digital has given me. Now that I'm past the Microdrive phase (D30 included a microdrive as part of a rebate) where you had to wait seconds for the "buffer" (if you could call it that) to clear onto the card. But it sure held more pics than my 128 MB CF Type II card! And that cost me a pretty $60 back in the day! Now, hundreds of pics on a single memory card, and changing the card can be done faster than the rewind/reload phase of the EOS 3 or A2. And easier to just "delete" those missed shots. Harder to throw out a negative strip of 4 shots with 3 bad ones.
Sometimes I wish people would think a little more before they click.
Anyone else noticed this at the parks? More pics being taken now than five years or more ago?
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