Canon S90 – Perfectly capable!
Thanks to Monte for tweeting a link to this article, Unplug Your Life, written by Richard Wong. It’s a short, but good read. I enjoyed it.
Richard talks about ‘unplugging’ while on vacation. The article, for me makes sense; Richard says that he doesn’t own a smartphone and talks about it being a waste of time to spend time on the Internet while on vacation. I would agree with that, in part, but I think that it is all about moderation. For example, I find my smartphone to be an extremely useful device. No, not for checking in to Facebook or any such nonsense, but for getting directions. No longer do I need to take my car GPS with me, or my satellite radio. I have it with me all in one small package. Heck, it even makes phone calls and takes photos, to boot! Like him, I see so many people sitting at tables, in cars, or any other public venue, faces stuffed into the phones, not talking to each other. You’ve got to have some discipline about it, I think.
I will admit that it is sometimes difficult to decide what to take with me ‘on the road’, but it comes down to intent. What is it that I’m doing while there. Am I photographing and blogging or am I vacationing. Tom Dills and I discussed this before and he doesn’t like to process while on vacation. He’s happily on vacation now and we’ve not heard a peep from him. Nice! I’m sure that he’ll have stories to tell when he returns. There’s a time and a place for everything.
Next month, Deb and I will be cruising to The Bahamas. It’s my first cruise, ever, but not my first trip to The Bahamas. It’s just a short, 2-night cruise.
I’ve been considering what to take, as far as equipment. For sure, I won’t be taking a laptop. I’ll be on a cruise ship and have no interest to pay $1.00 or more per minute of Internet time. It can wait until I get back to free Wi-Fi. Also, processing can wait too. I will probably take my D300, one zoom lens, and my rarely used Epson P-3000 Multimedia Storage/Viewer. That’s it. I’ll copy the files from the card to the viewer and keep on shooting. Even that may be optional. We’ll be at sea for two days and only in Freeport for a single day. I may just take my S90 and a single 8 GB card and that’s it.
I guess that the unplugging is all about intent. I doubt, though, that I will ever go somewhere without two cameras: One that’s on my phone, as it always travels with me, and another more versatile camera, such as the S90, or above.
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I think I would take Richard’s idea a step further and suggest that a lot of what we do on the internet while we are home is a waste of time as well. Why would we take the time to go somewhere nice, just to spend our time looking at a screen? I guess a lot of people have forgotten that reality is what is “out there” and not what we see on our little (or big) displays.
Based on my cruising experience I would suggest going as simply as you can stand. The S90 will be quite enough, as the sand and water out there looks great with any camera. Relax and enjoy!
I like that idea, Tom. I had already come to the conclusion that I’d probably take just the S90, period. Nothing else. One S90, one memory card.
I only pull the plug about halfway out – I’ll continue to check email and such, but for the most part I try to use the time to wind down. We all have to figure out what constitutes a balance in our lives. For some, leaving all technology behind and being completely out of communication with the world is what it takes, for others, not so much.
Enjoy the cruise! I’ve never taken one either, but it’s on my list somewhere…
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Absolutely, John. One size does not fit all. You have to do what works for you. I don’t check emails and text very little when I’m out and about. Also, I stay off of FB, generally, and don’t Tweet either.
I’m getting so I unplug more then I use to. We’ve got a longer trip planned for this coming July and I’m not planning on connecting to the web in any way. I’ll probably take my Olympus 4/3′s camera and the S90. Bonnie likes to use the S90 This combination served the purpose well on our trip to Romania last fall.
Enjoy that cruise…sounds like fun.
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Probably the only reason I might like to have net access when we are away is that the place we leave our dog has web cams of their playroom. It is a nice peace of mind moment when you can just check in and see if things look OK. I don’t like processing images either, or even editing them unless I am really short on space.
One of the best things about being underwater on a vacation is that it automatically takes much of that away from you!
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Mark, you mean you don’t have an underwater housing for your MacBook?
ha! not a chance. But when my wife or I do have something to say underwater, it is usually pretty comical trying to figure each other out through amature sign language.
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We definitely “unplug” while on the road. Not by leaving smartphones and laptops at home, but by ignoring TV and newspapers. The last thing we want to do is get depressed by what’s going on in the world! As we’ve discovered, it’ll all still be there – in all its insanity – when we return home.
But I do do “processing” while traveling. How do you know if your images are any good if you don’t look at them closely? So Lightroom and PS are always with me………
Don’t know about that cruise stuff, Paul. If people aren’t getting sick on those ships then some idiot captain is running the darned thing aground. I might do it, but I’d have to drag my wife kicking and screaming.