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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 13, 2014 - 08:02am PT
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Hello all,
What's you favorite climbing camera and why?
Right now I use a go pro... Ya I am one of those people! I like it a lot, good footage and small, light weight, very durable...
What's yours?!?!!
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 13, 2014 - 08:11am PT
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Awesome Locker!!!
My camera is my eyeballs ......
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handsome B
Gym climber
SL,UT
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Dec 13, 2014 - 08:32am PT
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iPhone->Fuji x100s->canon 6D in reverse order of climbing objective difficulty.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Dec 14, 2014 - 06:47am PT
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My partners. It is their job to document my exploits.
Meatman, if you make it to Pinns this winter/spring, give a holler.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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Dec 14, 2014 - 10:28am PT
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I use a canon 5dmkiii and an assortment of lenses. Before that I used a canon 7d. Once you start carrying it around it's not so bad!
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Dec 14, 2014 - 11:48am PT
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GoPro sounds smart.
I'm not a serious photographer so I prefer my iPhone4. (the 5 & 6 are larger and harder to carry unless you develop a special pouch or something.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 14, 2014 - 02:21pm PT
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Pentax Optio.
Small and waterproof.
+1
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Dec 14, 2014 - 03:49pm PT
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hard to go wrong with any of the Canon PowerShot models. I have the S95, bought it in 2010, and it takes amazingly good shots.
really want the Sony RX100, but unless I'm on Santa's nice list, not gonna get it anytime soon
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feynman
Trad climber
chossberta
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Dec 14, 2014 - 06:55pm PT
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A 12yr old Olympus stylus (2.3MP). I rarely need images over that MP amount, and am only recently finding I'm OK regularly saving things with file sizes over 1.5meg.
I love how you just slide the lens cover to power up. Makes it really easy with gloves on. You can also turn it on 1-handed very easily. Not waterproof, but has handled some shallow dunking and life on a river.
I even had a couple of poster sized kayak shots picked up by local stores. It sucks for indoor photos. Finally "got old" about 2years ago. Still using it.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 14, 2014 - 07:26pm PT
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I got one of those!
I've even flown it on kites.
It cost $416 ten years ago. You can get four times the camera for a fourth of that price today.
It is damn convenient for one-handed operation though.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 14, 2014 - 07:40pm PT
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Back around 2001, my buddy Jerry's techno-geek engineer friend Mark, after much techno-geeking about: pronounced the Canon A series cameras "the best small digital cameras."
Yeah, like I believed him!
So I did my own research and ended up in agreement with him & ms55401
who posts: hard to go wrong with any of the Canon PowerShot models. I have the S95, bought it in 2010, and it takes amazingly good shots.
Canon moved on with the Powershots from 4 AA batteries, to 2 to Gawd knows what today. The old 4 AA Powershots never seem to die, unless I fall into water with them (twice while power-fishing). It's OK, I found cheap replacement 4 AA battery Canons on Ebay.
While others were seeking to find recharge stations or esoteric batteries in Nepal in 2005 & 2008, my 4 battery Powershot only needed one change of batteries in 20 days and hundred of photos.
I do now climb with the slim & out of date 2 AA battery Canon Powershot A1200. One thing I like about these older cameras is: they have both a viewfinder and a digital screen.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Dec 14, 2014 - 09:35pm PT
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... 2 AA battery Canon Powershot ... I've had 2 A810s - nice just use regular batteries, and they have cool preset effects you can choose.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Dec 15, 2014 - 12:41am PT
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Best 250 bucks i ever spent.
210 on amazon now.
Takes awesome pics.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
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Dec 15, 2014 - 08:01am PT
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I have an older Canon Powershot, too. It's ok.
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AlanDoak
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Dec 15, 2014 - 08:04am PT
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Spider's pic is a good example of why I like my gopro for climbing, the fisheye lens makes it possible to capture pictures that show where you actually are. It doesn't matter that the camera doesn't have a view finder, everything is in the frame.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Dec 15, 2014 - 12:58pm PT
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I used an older Canon one from about ~7-8 years ago.
It is my wife's castoff, so I will get in no real trouble if it gets smashed or lost. It has plenty good enough optics and resolution that I am usually the limiting factor on image quality, not the camera.
But I have cheap scottish blood flowing in my veins.
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Morgan
Trad climber
East Coast
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Dec 15, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
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I like Panasonic LUMIX and Canon. Not sure what the most current models are, though.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Dec 15, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
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Canon SX260.. can still get them for around $130 used. Nothing newer in a point and shoot is much better without blowing over $300 used
Much better camera (images) than any phone or Gopro, Good wide angle good zoom decent controls for advanced users. Has a bios hack for shooting RAW which few folks use.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Dec 15, 2014 - 02:42pm PT
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I was happy with a few generations of Panasonic Lumix models, whatever was around $150 to $225 or so at a given time at Costco. Only problem was getting crushed in my chest pocket in squeeze chimneys, lens covers are pretty delicate. Actually, the last one I had I liked less than earlier generations, because they removed some of the simple modes for night-time 30sec or 60sec exposures.
Very good zooms and flexibility for landscapes and zoomed action shots, ok in low indoor lighting but a bigger lens more expensive camera will clearly blow it away in low indoor lighting.
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WyoRockMan
climber
Flank of the Big Horns
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Dec 15, 2014 - 03:16pm PT
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I use a Pentax WG-III.
When I first saw it, I was drawn like a moth to the light. It has a pile of auto settings, a good selection of manual controls and an impressive list of "proofs".
Shock Proof
Crush Proof
Water Proof
Cold Proof
but most importantly: Adventure Proof.
As a test of these claims I have just clipped it to my harness in all sorts of situations for the last two years. I did put an adhesive screen protector on the back.
Overall:
-It takes adequate pictures, but not great.
-Has some cool "stitching" features for panoramas etc.
-Decent battery life, one battery will last several days if used as an alarm clock (+) and just stills being shot.
-Super durable, but I did scratch the lens (not unexpected when used as harness bling)
-Heavy, heavy (-)
-Kind of expensive ($300) vs. photo quality
-Special battery, can be charged via USB
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