I turned it on as per instructions on that Malaysian web site. Fresh batteries and the exposure needle didn't move at all...... But the camera does need a good service and clean before becoming useful though.
I think it's must harder to do that now they've made that there is no barrier between the bridge. If you are fast, you stop at the bus stop on the citybound side and take photos from there. I think that bus stop has a time limit on it so you can use it after hours... maybe take a photo of the security guys that walk over and over the bridge.... boy those guys must be sick of the bridge by now...
Zane Yau wrote:
definitely possible before the Mardi Gras!!!
Nah.. it's 50 days to get to now 409 messages. There's 7.3 more 50days and at this rate, we'll only reach 2986 post in one year. We've got to up the posting rate to get to that No. 1 postion. I'm sure a few hundred post per day will get there in no time. I feel sorry for the people who are trying to go thru the 30 so pages there are now!
I don't know how I'd get the shot that I want and survive the process. Maybe if my car had a breakdown while I just happened to be driving across, I could, by sheer coincidence, whip out my camera and take the photo.
btw, we'd need to type more than 500 pages worth of... stuff... just to catch up to the #1 thread.
The no. 1 thread is about crap anyway. As if anyone would go searching in there to look for an old seller's rating... pointless really unlike this thread. At least it has some meaning to it.
You can't drive across it. The thin metal separator is quite small, plus the security guards would stop u anyway... or they'd send out a police van to pick you up with the no. of security cameras there. I guess u can breakdown in the middle if you want... as long as it's not a Toyota.... no one would believe you. If you drive a Jaguar and stop in the middle, I'd believe you are broken down but look a bit sus if you pull out your camera to do the shot. Try going at 3am. Your chances would be higher of survival.
Friend of mine Martin has a car with sunroof. He also has a small Lomo camera which he uses to take pic out of the sunroof while he's driving. he got a pretty neat pic of the Anzac bridge. Well, I can't afford a sunroof to play this game!!
You don't really need a sunroof to do it. Just get some suckion caps and whack it on the metal roof. As long as the surface is clean, no problems. How about mounting it on the side windows?
Ed W wrote:
16mb is 2 raw 1d mkII shots. I guess I can do that!
you got to think hard about exposure, focus, composition before you press the shutter and if you read the rules, no deleting of images from the 16mb card. If you do smaller jpegs, you may have 16 chances I guess.
I think it's a very meaningful exercise...more meaningful than this thread
My old car, (Nissan Skyline) had a hole in the roof that was drilled there by the previous owner to mount a CB antenna. I don't think I'd want to do that with my current car (Astra SRi).
I'd try Maurie's idea if I had confidence that the camera wouldn't fall off. That would be bad.
