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Here is the flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47618968@N03/sets/72157624525106622/
(If you guys remember I posted a couple of months ago my Yosemite set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47618968@N03/sets/72157623957957446/ )
Alright so I recently just completed the 211 mile trail going from Mt. Whitney to Yosemite Valley. The JMT is 10% of the Pacific Crest Trail and it happens to also be the hardest part of the PCT. I took my GF1 along with the lumix 20mm 1.7 and my newly acquired Oly 9-18mm.
Some notes:
-I started off the trip with the 9-18mm mounted and it stayed on the camera 95% of the time. Why? I have no idea part of it was because the Sierra's are so vast and big, but mostly was because this is the first time I've owned more than one lens so switching lenses has felt very alien to me. I feel like I take much better pictures with the 20mm since all I've ever shot with were fixed primes either 40 or 50mm. I'm still trying to get the hang of the UWA. The few weeks before the trip I honestly felt like selling the 9-18. Don't get me wrong it's a great lens (price, size, quality, etc is all there!) I just felt like it wasn't my style at all.
That being said, I'm embarrassed that this whole album is almost all wide angle.
-I regret not taking more pictures but at the time it was really hard to set time aside for picture making. We were on the move every single day– doing as much as 24 miles a day. If we weren't moving we were cooking, setting up tent, filtering water, having fun or sleeping. It would've been nice to do some long exposures especially with the ND filter + all the water around.
-I brought two OEM batteries. I planned on being as economical with battery power (approx. 800 shots for the first 10 days) and charging the batteries at one of our resupply locations where I had the charger stashed. I ended up only taking 390 shots over the 20 day period on one battery. In fact the same battery is still in the camera with one bar left– Impressive!
-I grabbed the camera whenever I had the opportunity & when I did sometimes it was so fast I was using the same aperture/iso and exposure comp. as the day before. Whenever I shot I tried my best to take the time to compose but a lot of the shots seemed like snap shots.
-I lost the Oly lens cap so I was using the hoya pro1 cpl on the 9-18 as a lens cap– Just shoving it into the case "as is". Although I had lens cleaner I only cleaned the cpl once.
-I stored all the equipment inside of a lowe pro rezo 110 aw which was attached to my pack's hipbelt. I could unzip the case and pull out the camera easily without pulling off my whole pack. I was also using a REI hiking staff– the top of the handle unscrews and you can thread the camera's tripod mount and use it as a monopod. Very handy and very slick! I could hike on easier terrain with the GF1 fixed to the hiking staff. I also had a gorrillapod that I didn't use once.
-I ran into a Pacific Crest Trail hiker who asked "hey is that one of those micro 4/3rd's cameras? I've run into two other PCTer's who had those things because they are a lot smaller than dslr's right?"
(If you guys remember I posted a couple of months ago my Yosemite set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47618968@N03/sets/72157623957957446/ )
Alright so I recently just completed the 211 mile trail going from Mt. Whitney to Yosemite Valley. The JMT is 10% of the Pacific Crest Trail and it happens to also be the hardest part of the PCT. I took my GF1 along with the lumix 20mm 1.7 and my newly acquired Oly 9-18mm.
Some notes:
-I started off the trip with the 9-18mm mounted and it stayed on the camera 95% of the time. Why? I have no idea part of it was because the Sierra's are so vast and big, but mostly was because this is the first time I've owned more than one lens so switching lenses has felt very alien to me. I feel like I take much better pictures with the 20mm since all I've ever shot with were fixed primes either 40 or 50mm. I'm still trying to get the hang of the UWA. The few weeks before the trip I honestly felt like selling the 9-18. Don't get me wrong it's a great lens (price, size, quality, etc is all there!) I just felt like it wasn't my style at all.
That being said, I'm embarrassed that this whole album is almost all wide angle.
-I regret not taking more pictures but at the time it was really hard to set time aside for picture making. We were on the move every single day– doing as much as 24 miles a day. If we weren't moving we were cooking, setting up tent, filtering water, having fun or sleeping. It would've been nice to do some long exposures especially with the ND filter + all the water around.
-I brought two OEM batteries. I planned on being as economical with battery power (approx. 800 shots for the first 10 days) and charging the batteries at one of our resupply locations where I had the charger stashed. I ended up only taking 390 shots over the 20 day period on one battery. In fact the same battery is still in the camera with one bar left– Impressive!
-I grabbed the camera whenever I had the opportunity & when I did sometimes it was so fast I was using the same aperture/iso and exposure comp. as the day before. Whenever I shot I tried my best to take the time to compose but a lot of the shots seemed like snap shots.
-I lost the Oly lens cap so I was using the hoya pro1 cpl on the 9-18 as a lens cap– Just shoving it into the case "as is". Although I had lens cleaner I only cleaned the cpl once.
-I stored all the equipment inside of a lowe pro rezo 110 aw which was attached to my pack's hipbelt. I could unzip the case and pull out the camera easily without pulling off my whole pack. I was also using a REI hiking staff– the top of the handle unscrews and you can thread the camera's tripod mount and use it as a monopod. Very handy and very slick! I could hike on easier terrain with the GF1 fixed to the hiking staff. I also had a gorrillapod that I didn't use once.
-I ran into a Pacific Crest Trail hiker who asked "hey is that one of those micro 4/3rd's cameras? I've run into two other PCTer's who had those things because they are a lot smaller than dslr's right?"
