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        Polar Zones | Arctic Circle Canada
I had 2 "mickey mouse" cameras with me! 
Canon SD300
Panasonic FZ3
Olympus E1

From: sidecar@thetimelessride.com
Subject: i have 2 "mickey mouse" cameras with me!
Date: April 1, 2005 9:04:59 PM CEDT
To: david@derrickandlove.net

 

The camera is important but not as important as the way you look at things... For me the difficulty was on 2 levels. First I have no choice but to freeze my finger and it hurt and takes a lot of time to comes back. i can take a shot with my gloves, but i cannot set it up with my gloves... there are too many small button. My major challenge is that in this extreme cold, i am driving with the window open (of my helmet) and without glasses (it resolve my visibility problem with fog and freezing ice on your lenses). So i am virtually blind as for the LCD display with all information of the set up... I learned by heart the steps... how to set up my white balance, compensate the exposure ect... (and it changes very fast with the snow, sun and clouds). it did works not too bad... i did missed a few shot by my mistakes but i had most of them. ...i have 2 mickey mouse cameras with me.

the Canon SD300 is my favorite because small size and i always have it at my belt... but it gives up on the Alaska Highway behind a truck, it pick up too much dust...and the lens does open and close

The second is quite interesting for it's long zoom range, it is the Panasonic FZ3 with an excellent lens from Leica equivalent of a 35mm to 420mm opening at 2.8 all along. Physically, it's a half size of it's competitor.... they just announce a new FZ4 and FZ5 but it just bring more pixels that we don't use and makes it slower... so i would still buy the FZ3 today.

both retails at about $350

what i am missing the most is a wide angle like 24mm, that would be great.

i have been thinking of the Olympus E1 because it is weather protected. all opening are rubberized... and fit well my lifestyle. but it is a full size camera...and on the market since almost 2 years.

My global thought is to buy the new generation of the Olympus E1 when it comes out with a zoom lens equivalent of 22mm/44mm have the small canon SD300 at my belt at all time and the Panasonic FZ3 for long range.

Since i am back, i decided not to have a third camera, keeping a light set up is a must in my travel style!