Shooting while skiing

phouphou wrote:

C Sean wrote:

So anyway one day I saw one guy who's really good and stopped near the end of a red route and he was wearing a big backpack which is very rare for downhill mountain biking. To my horror he pulled out out of his backpack a Full Frame with a 70-200mm 2.8 and started photographing his mates who were coming down after him.

I would never carry a bigger camera than smartphone/P&S (RX100, now Ricoh GR for me) on technical trails where i could fall on my back and break the lens/camera, or worse my back.

My backpack (photo below) has a back-protection inlay, but i dont feel comfortable carrying large hard stuff if the risk of falling is significant.

I only bring bigger camera gear if i know i can keep the risk to a minimum, maybe the guy with the 70-200 was still in his comfort zone when riding the red trail. If he took bigger risks (only he knows) that'd be pretty stupid..

There's no way around big lenses if you want to shoot sport on a professional level...

RX100 - never end trail - Laax, CH

I think some of you worry far too much. I buy good cameras to take out and use -not sit at home all safe & sound on a shelf or tucked away in a cupboard, only coming out for special occasions. And yeah, had a few decent crashes carrying good gear, with no damage to the gear. Carted off to hospital in the ambulance with a broken hip after a head on with a 4WD (driver completely at fault on the wrong side of the road), G9 & a few lenses unscathed. Woke up in hospital on another occasion wondering where the hell am I, and how did I get here? Canon camera body & lenses pretty much unscathed. Me, not so much. Couple of bleeds on the brain, busted collarbone & suspected cracked Pelvis. Used to drag my 6D around with pretty much everywhere. Which kind of got me into m4/3. Small lenses yeah.