Snapshot camera for gliding ?

On Feb 4, 11:10*am, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Feb 4, 10:56*am, T8 wrote:



On Feb 4, 10:39*am, Dave Nadler wrote:

On Feb 4, 10:37*am, T8 wrote:

On Feb 4, 9:53*am, Dave Nadler wrote:

Hi All - I'm looking for recommendations for a
snapshot camera to carry while gliding. Last
season I used my iPhone - its a pain to use
in the cockpit.

Ideal camera:
- very thin (fits easily in side pocket)
- instant on
- no settings to fiddle after turning it on
- doesn't autofocus on canopy
- super-fast focus and shoot
- fast repeat shooting
- easy operation with one hand

Needs to be grab-and-shoot with no fuss and no wait.

Recommendations ?
Thanks in advance,
Best Regards, Dave "YO electric"

There are a bunch that will do. *I use Canon SD1000 -- no longer made
-- bought an SD1200 for someone for Christmas, looks like the same
only faster, slightly smaller. *RTFM -- you'll be surprised at the
capabilities of these little gems.

-T8

Thanks for the recommendation.

I do not want to RTFM; if thats necessary
the camera is not the effortless point-and-shoot
needed for quick shots while flying.

Does this camera *require* RTFM,
or is it really point-and-shoot ?

Thanks again,
Best Regards, Dave

You read the manual so you understand how to set the camera for best
results. *Once set, the setting are retained power off.

The only essential is locking the focus on infinity, and that you can
figure out simply by looking at the back of the camera. *RTFM will get
you better results -- most of the current generation cameras take
really nice photos with a few tweaks, but all do have a 'dummy mode'
that will take an acceptable snapshot under almost all conditions.

In actual cockpit use, it's power on, point, shoot, power off.

I have an excellent digital camera.
It does not save many settings across power cycles.
It has numerous controls on its exterior that get bumped,
regularly putting it into unusable modes and requiring
lots of fiddling to get it back to something useful, unless
I don't notice in which case the shots are junk.

I'm trying to avoid this for cockpit use...

Does the Cannon D1200 save all settings across
power setting so that's its truly point-and-shoot
after initial configuration ?

Thanks for the recommendation,
Best Regards, Dave

I pulled out my SD1000 to verify: the one setting it will not retain
is the infinity focus, and that's a pain because you have to look at
the camera to set the infinity focus lock. I'd forgotten that, sorry,
I wasn't doing any in flight photography this season. Other than that
it fills the bill very well. I don't know if the SD1200 is different
in this respect, probably not. I can take a look at the 1200 tonight.

-T8