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 AnastomosisJihad
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 Mushroom hunting and photography gear 
#7968826 - 02/02/08 12:47 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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My order from amazon just showed up and I'm so stoked! I can't wait to try this stuff out on the first spring mushrooms.
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landsnorkler
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sweet man. That tripod looks really nice. How much was the tripod?
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AnastomosisJihad
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 Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: landsnorkler]
#7969233 - 02/02/08 02:36 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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That little flexible tripod is a Joby Guerrilla-pod. It cost $20.
I'm hoping it will help me get good shots with long exposure times in places a regular tripod will not fit.
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GGreatOne234
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i have considered a tripod, but, i prefer a camera that just fits in my pocket. i have clicked around 10,000 photographs, and only have a couple hundred of them left, so, back them up somehow is a suggestion (just don't back them up at the shroomery because a person only gets 25 pages of image space, and eventually a thousand shroom images will be lost over time as you upload a new photograph the oldest one will disappear)
the etrex is kind of cool, i only use mine for elevations though. i am more experienced with professional GPS equiptment for land surveying, those set ups can collect data to within a fraction of a millimeter.. not relevant, but, the only thing i use the handheld for is elevations, i never get lost while hunting mushrooms, i rarely ever stray too far from the path. a compass is more helpful but i do not use those either. handheld gps are often useless to mark points in the forests of the pacific northwest, or anywhere under tall trees, especially Pine trees, for some reason Pine trees reek havok with GPS signals, satelites get mixed up easily when trying to collect data through Pine needles. try it near a Pine tree sometime. sometimes you can clearly not be underneath the Pine (just near it) but the data and satelite connections will still get jumbled.
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landsnorkler
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: GGreatOne234]
#7969398 - 02/02/08 03:22 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm hoping it will help me get good shots with long exposure times in places a regular tripod will not fit.
exactly! sweet.
Do you use a remote control too?
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AnastomosisJihad
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: landsnorkler]
#7970002 - 02/02/08 05:59 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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No remote control yet; I use the two second delay.
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AnastomosisJihad
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: GGreatOne234]
#7970022 - 02/02/08 06:05 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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I plant as well as pick, so I bought the garmin to keep track of my patches. I still need to learn how to use it.
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 ToxicMan
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: GGreatOne234]
#7970183 - 02/02/08 06:40 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've noticed that GPS doesn't work well in the middle of a dense stand of pines. What seems to work is to walk to the nearest relatively clear area, get my fix, then walk back to the place I want the data for. It's not ideal, but I also don't have fortune to spend on some GPS receiver that'll work no matter what.
Happy mushrooming!
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GGreatOne234
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: ToxicMan]
#7970375 - 02/02/08 07:08 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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toxic, yes walking away from the trees to get satellites again and then walking under the tree again works a little better, but not too much. neat that you figured that out
from what i understand it does not matter if you spend a lot more on a handheld, you just get more features, tighter fixes on quardinates and whatnot, but (the most important point is) spending more will not give you better access to more satellites
a typical gps set up for land surveyors costs around 50k, confusing equiptment really, almost always there is some kind of problem/troubleshooting with it. and for the most part those rigs lose satelite connections just as easily as a 80dollar handheld. actually i am quite sure of that. the easier to use and more basic the better
your typical etrex will put you within 10 feet of the original point you set, which is good enough for a mushroom hunter
really if i was lost in the woods one of the last things i would want to have is one of those handhelds (by the time i figure the thing out i would be dead from starvation), the satellites are constantly moving and there are certain times of the day when you can only get 1 or even 0 satellites, and i think for a handheld to tell you your quardinates or even elevations you need at least 3 or 4 satellites. with professional survey GPS equiptment you need i think 5 satellites to get anything done
weather also effects what you can do with GPS, clouds, rain. and i am not sure about the lightning factor with a handheld but when you set up a survey GPS base station (on a point with known quardinates and elevation), the bases occassionally get struck by lightning.. transmitting data in whatever form it might be attracts lightning
and batteries run out of juice, so consider that too
a compass is what i would like to have if i was lost in the woods, because, gps is just a big headache for me, the only thing i use it for is on the dash board of my truck checking elevations.
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BoulderBoomer
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: GGreatOne234]
#7970849 - 02/02/08 08:48 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Indeed. We used consumer garmin hand-helds in conjunction with GIS mapping for land reclamation surveillance for the EPA. No need to buy fancy shmancy GPS unless you're military.
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: GGreatOne234]
#7971007 - 02/02/08 09:25 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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> from what i understand it does not matter if you spend a lot more on a handheld, you just get more features, tighter fixes on quardinates and whatnot, but (the most important point is) spending more will not give you better access to more satellites
That is true with the older handhelds, but the newest garmin ones work great even under trees. I have an older one too and it only works in clearings and such, but the new GPSMap60cx advertises a couple features like more sensitive receive and a better chipset to process it. I thought it was all marketing BS, but when I got it I was surprised that it locked on to my location in no time even though I was inside. When I hike through even very dense forest, there are never any breaks in the "bread crumb" trail now.
I also have a little pocket tripod, they are very cheap on ebay.
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undergrounder
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So do you guys make digital maps of all the mushrooms you find using GPS? or do you use it for not getting lost?
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Maverick
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: undergrounder]
#7971455 - 02/02/08 11:31 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm currently using a Pentax *ist D (going to upgrade to the K20D instead of the K10D) and a 180mm 1:1 ratio F3.5 macro lens with a Bogen Manfrotto tripod. I need better lighting equipment however.
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GGreatOne234
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: Maverick]
#7971484 - 02/02/08 11:43 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
DRTMaverick said:
I'm currently using a Pentax *ist D (going to upgrade to the K20D instead of the K10D) and a 180mm 1:1 ratio F3.5 macro lens with a Bogen Manfrotto tripod. I need better lighting equipment however.
really... that is nice.
i was checking out some olympus digital cameras the other day, , , man i was just looking,
700dollars is a lot for me to spend to just make photographs in my spare time
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Maverick
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: GGreatOne234]
#7972232 - 02/03/08 09:02 AM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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olympus, pentax, canon, nikon, they're all good. 
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snoot
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: Maverick]
#7973232 - 02/03/08 01:02 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have never used a tripod, my hands are hella steady from taking so many freehand macro's without flash's. personally I like getting in the dirt and getting my fix.
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: snoot]
#7973474 - 02/03/08 01:41 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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For digital mini-cams, the Nikon Coolpix "twist-body" series absolutely rules hands-down for macro. The Nikon Coolpix S10 is the latest version.
I still think the best photography is done with an SLR, though.
The above-mentioned Joby Guerilla-pod sounds really good. I might even pick one up.
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snoot
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: Strophariaceae]
#7973505 - 02/03/08 01:47 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Strophariaceae said:
For digital mini-cams, the Nikon Coolpix "twist-body" series absolutely rules hands-down for macro. The Nikon Coolpix S10 is the latest version.
I still think the best photography is done with an SLR, though.
The above-mentioned Joby Guerilla-pod sounds really good. I might even pick one up.
yeaup, when you have a camera with a lens that extends out with all those moving parts and what not, theres a greater degree of risk, especially taking it out in the wilderness.
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Re: Mushroom hunting and photography gear [Re: snoot]
#7973707 - 02/03/08 02:22 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just forked out a grand for a new camera lens. Wow there goes a month of work.
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