Photos from Meijer Gardens

[johnridley]

When we headed out to Meijer Gardens to see butterflies, I grabbed the SLR. It's just the right tool; (near)zero shutter delay, instant zooming, etc. Definitely the right tool to grab when your subjects are lighting for 5 seconds, and their wings are opening and closing once a second. The most recent photo on it was from Christmas, and before that, Halloween. I should probably use it more.

But it's only got a 1GB card in it, which limits me to a bit less than 400 photos. OK, that's enough for a day's shooting, but not a week or two, and I'd rather not take a laptop with me on vacation to offload photos. I've gotten spoiled by the 8G SD card in the little camera. But I did buy an 8G CF card for the Zen Micro a few months back. I'm not using the Zen anymore since I got a 1G, $10 player which is more than enough, so tonight I took the 8G card out of the MP3 player and put it in the SLR, reformatted it, and should have room for 3000 photos or so. If I didn't already have that, I would have picked up an SDHC to CF adaptor that would allow me to use SD cards in the SLR, they're about $25 and if I'm going to buy any more memory, it'll be SD.

Hot bug-on-bug action - The rest of the photos are here.

Comments

[isherempress.livejournal.com]

John, you should have called! I live about 20 minutes from the Gardens. It's one of our favorite places to visit. OTOH, I've been sick with something... the flu? the crud?... since last Saturday, so maybe it wouldn't have worked out. But next time! My number is in the GT directory.