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 Snarg
   
Gender: Male
 |  |  |  | If you bring a camera, you should have these:
< on 11/14/2003 2:44 AM >
|  | | | Q-Tips! I don't know about the rest of you, but the 'Orb' controversy is getting rather old. Bring some Q-Tips to clean the crap off of you lens. No dirt, no orbs.
If not Q-Tips, at least bring some lens paper...
Mean people suck.
Nice people swallow. |
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Capone
Location: London, Ontario
Gender: Male
UEL
| | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 1 on 11/14/2003 2:50 AM >
| | | | I always thought 'orbs' were caused by floating dust, not dust on the lens itself, which explains why they only show up in some pictures.
So there I was, in this creepy old hallway... |
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PonyGrl420
Location: NY
Gender: Female
huh??
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<Reply # 2 on 11/14/2003 3:17 AM >
| | | | i usually use the inside of my sleeve...probaly not the best thing but it works
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 3 on 11/14/2003 3:31 AM >
|  | | | Just bring this...
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Krenta
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Nope, wasn't me.
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<Reply # 4 on 11/14/2003 3:36 AM >
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The problem with Q-Tip (tm) type cotton swabs is they tend to leave little wisps of cotton where they don't belong. Just use a t-shirt. Really. It's not like any of us are using really expensive lenses (like a 35mm PC-Distagon, heh).
Really, if you bring a camera, you should bring a tripod. And a cable release. And a lens shade. And an off-camera flash. And...
Have Speed Graphic, Will Travel. |
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sneaker98
Location: London, Ontario
Gender: Male
Gwar.
| |  | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 5 on 11/14/2003 4:27 AM >
| | | | Nah, I like jesters idea the best.
Who you gonna call??? GHOST BUSTERS!
Why bother cleaning the crap off the lens when you can go right to the source ;)
A large, bear shaped animal, possibly a bear, has been spotted looking for food or possibly employment. |
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 6 on 11/14/2003 4:55 AM >
| | | | The "orbs" are caused by the flash reflecting off of dust in the air, not dust on the lens. You still should try to shoot with a clean lens though.
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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outage
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
| | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 7 on 11/15/2003 3:36 AM >
| | | | If you are worried about having to clean your lens in the field and possibly getting cleaning marks on it, you can just carefully clean your lens at home, and then slap one of those UV filters over it. You can just keep the filter on throughout the expedition (people who actually know what they're doing may frown on this though) and then the only thing that gets dirty is the $10 filter, which you can clean however you like since it's so cheap.
This of course assumes you have a camera that actually accepts filters.
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Macsbug
Noble Donor
Location: St. Paul, MN
Gender: Male
Safety First!
| | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 8 on 11/15/2003 5:41 AM >
| | | | Posted by outage
you can just carefully clean your lens at home, and then slap one of those UV filters over it.
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This is what I have been doing, just throw on the UV filter and go. If I see something I want to get some good pictures of and dont think my lens will get dirty, I can just screw of the filter and take some shots.
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." |
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'Dukes
Noble Donor
Gender: Male
At least someone llikes me
| | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 9 on 11/15/2003 6:10 AM >
| | | | Are you trying to tell me you think orbs aren't real?
I got your tour winner right here pussies, at least he'd crash out trying. |
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Ben
Noble Donor
Location: Mojave Desert
Gender: Male
| | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 10 on 11/15/2003 3:08 PM >
| | | | No, orbs are not real.
Microfiber cloths are pretty cheap, but a clean spot on a t-shirt works fine.
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sneaker98
Location: London, Ontario
Gender: Male
Gwar.
| | | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 11 on 11/16/2003 10:06 PM >
| | | | I dunno, i wouldnt say they arent real... I've seen some weird stuff, like video camera footage with a buncha orbs floating around that definately aren't dust particles. so I wont say they aren't real... I'm undecided
A large, bear shaped animal, possibly a bear, has been spotted looking for food or possibly employment. |
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SPEK Photo
Location: Where you were not.
"Chere cachère!"
| | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 12 on 11/16/2003 11:18 PM >
| | | | Bring a rubber blower-brush, you can blow the dust away and gently brush the corners. But I alway use the inside of my T-Shirt.
[last edit 11/16/2003 11:18 PM by SPEK Photo - edited 1 times]
Pour fins d'archives.
WWW.EXPLORATIONURBAINE.CA |
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shutterbug_f80
Location: Oakville
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 13 on 11/27/2003 7:02 PM >
|  | | | I take my big SLR everywhere and as the lens is fairly expensive, I go out of my way not to scratch it.
| Posted by outageyou can just carefully clean your lens at home, and then slap one of those UV filters over it. |
Definately a possibility - but the filter can sometimes screw things up.
I'd also not reccommend kleenex or t-shirts if you're protective of your lens because the fibres can scratch.
The best thing I have found is either a microfibre cloth OR a nice and convenient thing that works well on expeditions - go to Lenscrafters (wearing a pair of glasses would make you seem more authentic) and ask for a free tune up or whatever you call it. Then when you're finished they'll give you a package of disposable lens cloths, ask for a couple extra and they will hand you a handful. They are INCREDIBLY convenient.
[edit] - grammar
[last edit 11/27/2003 7:02 PM by shutterbug_f80 - edited 1 times]
"If you're not living life on the edge... you're taking up space." |
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Stalker
Location: Hamilton
Your Resident Red Commie Bastard
| | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 14 on 11/28/2003 6:08 AM >
| | | | For me squirrel fur brush works really well. No I didn't make it. I got if from store.
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O2
This member has been banned
| | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 15 on 11/28/2003 10:57 AM >
| | | | To get the dust and hairs off of my lens I usually use a little rabbit fur duster I got at a camera shop. Really works well, and picks up all the dust nicely.
Another must is to bring some spare film, or spare memory cards if you are using digital. Especially if you think you are about to get caught. Replace the film with the unused one, or replace the memory card with a spare, so that there are no pictures.
That should keep you outta trouble.
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mike-o
Location: Philadelphia
Gender: Male
Wake up little penguin... Penguintopia's open to the public
| | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 16 on 12/1/2003 3:01 AM >
| | | | Posted by sneaker98
I dunno, i wouldnt say they arent real... I've seen some weird stuff |
I think so too. I've got alot of pictures with white, half transparent orbs in them and I'm sure they are just a reflection of the flash off dust so close to the lens it appears to be perfectly round because of how badly out of focus it is, but I also took a picture (you'll have to take my word for it, I can't believe I lost it) that had an orb that was easily 5 times bigger than any i've ever seen, completely white, the orb cast a shadow on the wall, and part of it was behind a crutch standing about 8 feet from the camera. This was not a picture of a piece of dust.
[last edit 12/1/2003 3:03 AM by mike-o - edited 1 times]
UER is a great idea and I love the LDB... but this forum sucks my ass. later |
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sneaker98
Location: London, Ontario
Gender: Male
Gwar.
| | | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 17 on 12/1/2003 5:43 AM >
| | | | No, i mean literally seen something. Not off a camera...
Anyways, 99% of the orbs is just dust, namely asbestos in UEL's case. If it was orbs, there sure are hundreds of them in the elgin building  I'd more trust an orb on video... those are a little harder to explain
A large, bear shaped animal, possibly a bear, has been spotted looking for food or possibly employment. |
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Johnny Bravo
Location: more than 6 feet under (WI)
Gender: Male
| | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 18 on 12/1/2003 10:48 AM >
| | | | Q-tips are nice, I used to cut them in half and store them in a film canister, but when a cop searches you its kinda hard to explain whats in the canister and then why you have a bunch of Q-tips that are cut in half, thank god Im a good bullshiter.
Now I just clean my lenses befor I go & keep the caps on them.
adventure without risk is disneyland http://www.infiltraterz.com |
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Asylunt
Location: MPLS
Gender: Male
The Friendly Beer!
| | | | Re: If you bring a camera, you should have these:
<Reply # 19 on 12/1/2003 11:05 AM >
| | | | Why not just say they are for cleaning you camera lens?
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain |
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