which do you prefer in the parks? PnS, or DSLR?

[Steve's Girl]

once you get used to the convenience of a vest it's hard to leave home without it..

However, you could be leaving home ALONE! No one in my family would be seen with me!

 

[zackiedawg]

However, you could be leaving home ALONE! No one in my family would be seen with me!

That could be a good thing for us photographers, when we want to take time to photograph the details without a family of foot-tappers clucking and sighing at you every time you stop for a photo - yet they'll never give you time to go off on your own and shoot for a few hours. Put the vest on, then invite them to come along so you appear to be making the proud family effort...watch them all waffle and suddenly find the excuse to let you go on your own!

 

[manning]

I just got the Olympus 6000. Now that is a fun camera. Getting great water pictures.

 

[Steve's Girl]

That could be a good thing for us photographers, when we want to take time to photograph the details without a family of foot-tappers clucking and sighing at you every time you stop for a photo - yet they'll never give you time to go off on your own and shoot for a few hours. Put the vest on, then invite them to come along so you appear to be making the proud family effort...watch them all waffle and suddenly find the excuse to let you go on your own!

You might be on to something!

 

[Groucho]

Yeah, I think the vest would be best used for those late-night Magic Kingdom trips where the wife and kids have gone to bed early. She definitely rolls her eyes for it. It probably doesn't help that it's an extra large and they apparently run pretty large - I'm 6'2" but pretty skinny, and the thing hangs on me fairly low. You need to be tall and a little "rounder" to really fill it out I think. Oh well, I'll make do!

To go back on topic - c'mon, would a PnS involve such silliness as this? And the world can always use a little more silliness!

 

[WillowBelle]

However, you could be leaving home ALONE! No one in my family would be seen with me!

I WISH I could go it alone. I do a TON of guilt stopping everyone so I can get a picture......not enough guilt that I leave the camera behind though . I don't even have a P&S camera. Sometimes I think it would be nice, if I knew there was nothing spectacular that I was going to photograph. It can get tedious to drag the 50D + battery grip to dinner with friends just to basically take snapshots.

 

[tjl1388]

I may stop to grab a shot...my family does not. Hopefully I know where they are headed so I can catch up. I am almost a 95% candid family shooter so my kids don't even blink when my camera come up to my face. I'm so proud.

 

[networktek]

i always take both we me i have my pns in my back pocket for quick little pictures and my dslr with me for great shots

 

[mom2rtk]

We were IN Diseyland only half way through the day in 2007 when my DSLR just died.... The kids made fun and laughed.....UNTIL I pulled out my PnS. I now refer to it as my "ankle camera".....The one I always keep hidden but quickly available in a "camera emergency"....

I was glad to have the PnS, but we were headed for Zion National Park and Canyonlands after DL..... It drove me NUTS to be there without the DSLR, but at least I had something..... I was thankful for the extended warranty I had on the DLSR when they put a brand new one in my hands....

The kids still say I just wore it out.....