{"id":14648,"date":"2015-02-21T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=14648"},"modified":"2015-02-21T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T03:05:10","slug":"sometimes-its-enough-to-make-you-want-to-use-a-digital-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=14648","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes its enough to make you want to use a digital camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-14650\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/K3_3638.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14650\" alt=\"_K3_3638\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/K3_3638.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/K3_3638.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/K3_3638-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/K3_3638-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a &#8216;feature&#8217; of the Contax RTS that has now bitten me twice.\u00a0 On many SLR&#8217;s of its vintage with manual film advance the film rewind level turns to indicate that the film is actually advancing.\u00a0 Not so with the RTS it has a fancy system that allows the rewind lever to remain stationary even when the film advances but that is also exactly what it also looks like when the film isn&#8217;t advancing at all.\u00a0 To be fair I should have double and triple checked that it was working but in my excitement to continue taking pictures I guess I forgot.\u00a0 So after quite some time and 36 blank frames of missed opportunity I discovered my error.\u00a0 That put a damper on what was otherwise a great day where I also saw\u00a0and bought some fantastic art cards from a fellow photographer.\u00a0Here is the GPS track of my photographic excursion so I will actually re-cover the ground at some point where I have no images.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-14649\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewWestTrackGPS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14649\" alt=\"NewWestTrackGPS\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewWestTrackGPS.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewWestTrackGPS.jpg 1286w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewWestTrackGPS-150x95.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewWestTrackGPS-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NewWestTrackGPS-1024x651.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tough because I can remember several pictures that I thought I took and was quite pleased with.\u00a0 I really hope the other camera I was using for the first half of my tour worked.<\/p>\n<p><em>A little bit of information for thought: \u00a0A 35mm 36 exposure roll of film is about 1.4meters long, a 32Gbyte card will store about 600 RAW images from my Pentax K-3 DSLR which if it where film would be about 23.3meters long.\u00a0 That amount of film canisters would also weigh around 375g not that I would shoot that much film in a day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Provided the first 24 exposure roll from the RTS turns out I will have a little mini review and further rant at that time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a &#8216;feature&#8217; 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