Landscape Photograhers watch

[Ron Marshall]

Not for everyone, but interesting that such a thing exists:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...ries/yes.shtml

[Walter Calahan]

But don't watch landscape photographers unless you enjoy seeing paint dry. HA!

Cool watch.

[paulr]

gag!

i want my version to simultaneously show the times in yosemite, point lobos, and hernandez.

so what if they're all in the same time zone.

[scott_6029]

"Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour." -Edward Weston


"When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches." -Edward Weston

Nuf, said...

[Kirk Keyes]

$495!!!! I can get a GPS that does that for less and tells me where I am at the same time.

OK - the GPS will not fit on my wrist. But I do have a Casio Pathfinder watch http://www.casio.com/products/Timepi...ts/PAS400B-5V/ that tells me the phase of the moon and the time for sunrise and sunset. Street price of $40.

[Vaughn]

I haven't even bothered to replace the battery for my watch yet, and the battery when flat several months ago. I have a kitchen timer in my camera pack for those multi-second exposures.

Vaughn

Edited to add...I find paying attention to the moon whenever I am out is sufficient.

[r.e.]

Since the introduction of the cell phone, a watch has been a piece of jewellery.

What's wrong with a piece of jewellery that has these functions? It comes from a long tradition of watches, many of them with similar functions that are not exactly essential, and many of which cost a lot more money. It isn't hard to spend $20k for a watch that does these things. It's just a question, if you want to buy a piece of jewellery, of what quality you want. Interestingly, all this solar system stuff is part of a watch tradition that has particular appeal to men. Kind of like electic train sets. So it's kind of funny to see men dissing it.

[Vaughn]

Well, I don't own a cell phone either.

-V

[paulr]

$495!!!! I can get a GPS that does that for less and tells me where I am at the same time.

you could leapfrog this product by introducing a landscape photographer's gps. for a few hundred extra bucks it would come loaded with coordinates of all the places you must photograph. you know, tenaya lake, monument valley, etc. etc.

[paulr]

Since the introduction of the cell phone, a watch has been a piece of jewellery. ... What's wrong with a piece of jewellery that has these functions? It comes from a long tradition of watches, many of them with similar functions that are not exactly essential, and many of which cost a lot more money.

i saw a wildly expensive, all-mechanical watch by breguet, that showed the cycles of the moon. they could calibrate one to show the status of the moon over hernandez.