Whenever I travel, I carry two Canon cameras with interchangeable lenses. On the old one, an EOS, I keep a wide-angle lens. On my new Rebel XTi, which has image stabilization, I keep a telephoto lens. This solves two problems.
When there’s a good photo opportunity, whether it’s a close-up portrait or a shot of a distant bird, I don’t have to take the time to change the lenses; I just quickly switch cameras.
Dear Globetrotter:
Welcome to the 442nd issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine, the one that prints the reports you send in.
by Donna Judd; Fullerton, CA
We’re wrapping up our series on digital cameras this month. We had asked ITN subscribers to name the models that they prefer to use while traveling. We printed their recommendations in three issues, loosely categorizing the cameras into three groups by size and weight: “ultracompacts” (March ’12), “compacts” (April) and cameras that weigh more than 10 ounces and won’t fit in a pants pocket (May).
Scheduled to open in Berlin in June 2004 is an exhibition of works by photographer Helmut Newton, who presented 1,000 of his photographs to the city in October ’03.
A Brazilian judge in early January ordered police to stop fingerprinting and photographing U.S. visitors to Rio de Janeiro, arguing the practice might hurt tourism in the city. The judge, in Brasilia, overturned a Dec. 29 order by a judge in northwestern Brazil to retaliate for U.S. fingerprinting and photographing of visitors. (In January, the U.S. began taking digital photographs and inkless fingerprints of visitors from countries that require visas, part of a program intended to thwart terrorists.) The Brazilian practice led U.S.
We asked for your recommendation of a good, pocket-sized, point-and-shoot digital camera that has a viewfinder. But we also asked you to name the digital camera — of any type — that you prefer to use while on a trip. In the March and April issues we printed subscribers’ comments on “ultracompact” and “compact” cameras. This month, the reviews are about cameras that most likely will not fit into a pants pocket and which weigh more than 10 ounces.
We asked for your recommendation of a good, pocket-sized, point-and-shoot digital camera that has a viewfinder. But we also asked you to name the digital camera — of any type — that you prefer to use while on a trip. In last month’s issue we printed subscribers’ comments on “ultracompact” cameras (about the size of a deck of cards and weighing less than six ounces without batteries).
We asked for your recommendation of a good, pocket-sized, point-and-shoot digital camera that has a viewfinder. But we also asked you to name the digital camera — of any type — that you prefer to use while on a trip. The response was impressive, so in this issue we’re printing subscribers’ comments just on “ultracompact” cameras (about the size of a deck of cards and, in most cases, weighing less than six ounces without batteries).
