Comments on: The Ski Journal 3-2 — Review

By: Fernando Pereira

Fernando Pereira — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:06:59 +0000

@Drew: I’ve been quite happy with my Canon G7, which was possibly the highest quality compact when it came out. Its main weaknesses for ski photo are focus and shutter lags for action pictures, and a size that’s not as convenient as a subcompact. On the (very) positive side, the G7 and its successors the G9 and the G10 have powerful, easy to use mechanical controls for speed, aperture, and exposure compensation, they can produce excellent pictures in a wide range of conditions (except low light, which is a problem for all high pixel count compacts), they are sturdy and don’t seem to be very affected by cold. I’ve been tracking this market segment since then, and the best comparable reviewed recently is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 (a bit better than the G9 and the G10).

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:22:16 +0000

We still run a couple of Canon A720, they’ve held up incredibly well, use AA batteries, have optical viewfinder, 6x zoom, manual mode, etc. etc. Perhaps a bit bulky by today’s standards for a point&shoot, but just an amazing camera.

I’m thinking of upgrading, but the only reason I’d do so is for more zoom range or smaller size.

Biggest downside to the Canon A series is that the highlight tonal separation is not great, so you have to slightly under-expose your snow if you’re shooting chalk-white bright snow, then move it back up in Photoshop.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:42:19 +0000

Hi Lou: Sorry for the random post…I broke my travel camera (an Exilim). I love the TR photos you post. What is your latest recommended camera? Thanks much. Love the site!

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:15:30 +0000

Good comments Fernando! Thanks.

Well edited and crafted writing is certainly a benefit with this sort of thing, as opposed to raw blog writing (grin). Both have their place these days, in my opinion.

By: Fernando Pereira

Fernando Pereira — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:54:01 +0000

I started subscribing to Ski Journal a few months ago (prodded by the ad here ;)) and I’m loving it. The South America article is also my favorite in the current issue, although it made me a bit sad that this is the first Northern summer in the last six that I’m not going there to ski (recovering from a ski injury suffered in April). In addition to the great photos (the ones of the PNW in that issue are especially interesting) and solid to excellent writing, the simple fact that the text is typeset in a nice black font on good quality paper is a boon to my older eyes, i contrast to the idiocy of “edgy” light-colored sans-serif type on dark backgrounds that has invaded other ski publications, including the perviously sane “Backcountry”.