After a two week vacation in Prague and Milan....

Yeah, Prague was just amazing. Not a single facade looked like the next, but it all just fit together so beautifully. Did you get to see the castle? After our tour of Prague, we took a train to Berlin. It was one of the best train trips ever, and I saw a lot of beautiful buildings, and even a bridge I'd only seen in architectural books.

I didn't have such a good camera when I went, I hope someday to go back to Europe again.

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Figuring 5 seconds to compose, meter and take the shot, another 5 seconds walking about to get the angle you want, and 2 seconds per shot for overhead and profit...let's see...carry the 3...divide by 360...urp (sorry, too much Pepsi)...ends up to be 100 HOURS!

Even if it was a just 2 seconds a shot (can you say blurry?) that's still ~16 hours just clicking a camera.

How long was this trip??

(too much Pepsi is right)

Marcello

Yes, saw the castle. Seven day trip went roughly like so:

Arrived Friday night. Saturday- general walk around town to get oriented, up to Castle entrance and back to Old Town square (our hotel was 5 minutes away). Evening concert at Smetana Hall in the Obecni Dum (the beautifully restored Art Nouveau municipal 'house') Sunday- Castle: St. Vitus cathedral, Vladislav hall, St. George, Golden Lane, and a walk through Stare Mesto Monday- National museum most of the day (rain)- lots of geology, some paleotology, zoology and archeology; train station and walk to National theatre Tuesday- TV tower, Vinohrady district, Fred and Ginger, Jean Nouveau 'Angel' building +shopping center; royal gardens, Loreto, castle and parliament entry area, St. Nicholas Church Wednesday- Alfons Mucha museum, St. Agnes Museum (medieval to Renaissance Czech art), 1905 exhibition hall, Troja Palace Thursday- New town hall, river walk, Stare Mesto and Devil's brook area, Rudolfinium, Jewish Quarter (briefly) Friday- Jewish Quarter, Old town square- departure.

'Fred and Ginger' (Gehry building) basically sucked with respect to the unbelievable amount of well detailed turn-of-the-century eclectic and Art Nouveau buildings. Nouveau's shopping mall was straightforward and nothing special.

Marcello

It'll take some time. And I have to remember how to post to the website, which I haven't down in a while...... I'll try to get a few key ones up next week.

Should read Jean Nouvel

Yep. The urp affected the calc by one order of magnitude! Never underestimate the power of gas. ;)

I remember having tons of time to take pictures when I was younger and wandering around travelling. Pictures and film cost money, took up space, etc. I think I never took more than ten rolls of film with me on a trip - ~360 pictures. Having the ability to take ten times that with no cost, no added weight and instant feedback...sure wish I could go back in time!

I remember taking a couple of rolls of pictures at Ostia Antica - great stuff, too. When I got the pictures back, I discovered that the camera's light meter was farpotshket. Two totally screwed rolls of overdeveloped pictures. AAAGGGGHHHH! Still hurts 25 years later.

I feel your pain brother. Lost a whole week in Rome once because my old 35mm was on the fritz. Didn't discover it until I returned These kids travelling overseas these days don't know how good they got it now with the toys available to them.

I remember studying in Spain in the early 90's and taking CASSETTE tapes with me for my tunes. What a beating and waste of space. I would have killed for my IPOD back then.

On the flip side, I've mentioned that I had film confiscated in Italy by the Carabinieri many moons ago. I eventually got the film back from the US consulate's efforts. If that had happened now, the Carabinieri would have just pulled the card and/or deleted the contents. Guess I'm just lucky!

Wait, you didn't put in a factor for that camera ability to do multiple shots at 3fps.

This is what I use:

Here's an example on my site:

That's why you keep a 'plant' flashcard stored in your sock.

I just know the multiple times I travelled Europe while in school I seemed to be burdened by a bunch of 'crap', and then I compare it to a trip to Italy last year with my new 'toys'. I felt light as a feather. ;-)