gates_cliff wrote:What a terrific collection! I sail out of the West River 9n the chesapeake but rarely have a camera handy and it takes me to long to get cell phone
There are several Cape Dories in the area but not nearly as many as you've captured
Thanks! There aren't a lot of Cape Dories sailing where I am either, but what I do have going for me is I sail a lot, so I usually get to see most of the boats that are passing through the area.
Instead of using a cell phone, I recommend buying an old technology, inexpensive, used point-and-shoot camera. You can buy a decent used 12 megapixel point-and-shoot camera with optical zoom on eBay for well under $50. I have a 12-year old point-and-shoot camera that I bought last year for $32. I keep that camera in the cockpit at all times when I sail so it is always handy. I use it for most of my sailing snapshots. When it eventually gets ruined I will just buy another one. The Admiral has so far ruined 3 of them by dropping them overboard or on rocks. No biggie; they are cheap. I keep my good, expensive DSLR camera down below when sailing so it isn't ruined by the marine environment, and if I have plenty of time and want to take better quality shots, I use it, but it isn't necessary to have a nice camera to get good shots of boats.
By the way, even if you keep it handy, a cell phone won't usually do a great job of capturing boats sailing. The lenses are so wide that you have to be very close to your subject to fill the image, which isn't likely to happen when you are out sailing. Though cell phones have a "zoom" feature, it is a digital zoom, so it just crops a small area of the optical sensor then re-expands the image to pretend that it was big to begin with, resulting in heavy pixilation and poor image quality. Even an inexpensive point-and-shoot camera with an optical zoom will do a far better job than your phone.
Smooth sailing,
Jim
