Paul, The truth of the matter is....your layout would look great if you used one of those $5 throwaway cameras!!! Jeff
Wonderful photo! As I've stated before, I feel as though I'm in the forests of my youth, back in the Pacific NW! That's how good the modeling is! Boxcab E50
Your modeling is so well done, I thought I saw a squirrel on one of those trees, but he is gone now. Maybe I'm just getting carried away with the realism?
I hope mine does not "grow up"... I need to keep it in N scale. Positively stunning work, Paul. However, I have to agree, your layout would still look great if pictures were taken by a disposable camera! Harold
I just bought another 1 gig card. I found that I can fill one up on a busy railfanning day quite quickly. Harold
When you buy a camera in this range, you commit to buying a lot of cards! While I use comparable Nikons, I've had to stock up. I'm now at 8 gigs, with a 20-gig battery-powered pocket drive. A few summers ago, I went to Alaska with 1.5 gigs of cards, and no drive. I ended up shooting JPEG (3.2 mbytes per image) rather than RAW (9.5 mbytes) or Tiff (17.2 mbytes), and then hunting around for places to offload the cards. I did find a Kinko's in Anchorage that (reluctantly, at best) burned me some CDs, but only overnight. I found an internet cafe in Seward that was probably using an 8080 to burn CDs. The early pocket disks aren't great, either. Mine will unload about 2 gigs before it poops out. The later verison are much better. For model railroading, this isn't a big deal. I think that most buyers of this caliber of equipment have other uses in mind. That's where it becomes a big deal--although I saw I gig cards at my local big box today for $89, but they are slow.
At high res / low compression, I can fit 250 jpeg images on a 1 gig card. I have not tried any Canon RAW images yet. I have quite a few cards of varying sizes in my bag... just like with film: you never want to run out! Harold
