Another pointless thread

I've seen them in Northern Manitoba. I suggest you don't follow Oggy's advice. They are kind of temperamental. And they move a lot faster than you think. If you think they move fast, you're off by a magnitude of at least two.

I had it in mind that they did about 25-30 MPH (40-50KPH).

I watch every minute of them on wildlife documentaries and keep promising myself that I will see them one day.

My favourite bit was when Mum emerges from the den for the first time with her cubs and one of them promptly falls up to his waist into one of her paw prints. He can't manage a growl but there is a little grizzle.

Oggy this passion has nothing to do with your Avatar does it? Thought it was the brown ones that are Grizzlees he he!!!!!

Cedric

I like all bears. The house is full of them, and they get up to all sorts. It's not unusual to find a Polar Bear in the fridge and one of them used to go out on site with me and knick little jars of honey from the hotel breakfast bar. He was quite good on aerodynamics too. Got me out of a hole a couple of times. I did make the mistake taking him to tha bar one night, but he got a bit lairy.

I remember a few years ago in Forillon Provincial Park (Québec), some French tourist camping there. One of them told me: "We saw some (brown) bears, and I even fed one from my hand". So, I looked at the guy and told him: "Did you count your fingers after that?"

Some (French) people are so stupid. Then, they wonder why wild animals do attack men without provocation.

edit: I wonder if I could feed an Oggy bear without losing some fingers?

flipping heck !

It's now July 1 and once more I can't take the K-x for a walk - it's chucking it down !!

Oh well - I'll have to start going through cupboards and junking stuff so I can empty then and start to DO something about decorating a room which has needed it for far too long - snag is it's a HUGE room filled with furniture

That's one reason why I've kept my K20D and plonked the 18-55WR on it. My K-x is certainly the camera I reach for (for general use), but it is nice to have the reassurance of a totally weather sealed camera if I need it.

Thought about hunting for a cheap K10D as a second body?

EDIT - actually, that's assuming you are prepared to get wet also! This might not be a strong argument....

The K200D is also weather sealed and may come in a little cheaper than the K10D second hand.

As you mentioned though Bob, it does depend whether or not someone actually wants to get wet!

Me get wet voluntarily ?? I'd prefer not - though for many years every time I went driving I got soaked - and used to it - nothing kept me really dry .

I swore that for several years I had webbed feet and now the webs have gone they are NOT coming back - I'm too old for oiled feathers . I like my creature comforts.

Being able to continue shooting in the rain is wonderfully liberating. The glistening colours can be magnificent.

It depends on your point of view, but if I get a fantastic shot the getting wet bit is irrelevant. It's soon forgotten, but the image is there.

I remember a funny story from a guy visiting our camera club, he'd been on a tour of the States (or was it Canada?) and people had pulled up by the side of the road and were watching (from a safe distance) a bear up a tree, then a bus full of Japanese tourists pulled up and they were all around the bottom of the tree taking snaps
THey obviously had a very good guide

I certainly subscribe to that point of view!

And Rob - yes, I'd forgotten about the 200D, good point.

Oh I'm not sure about that, I can still remember the wet knee I got while snapping some funghi several months ago

I think it in general is the "forgotten" camera. Not that it deserves to be mind, as far as I can tell everyone who has one swears by it and they rarely crop up secondhand.

Believe me after spending most Saturdays [ and sometimes Sundays too ] at carriage driving events during the season , nearly always placed as Timekeepers at some stage waaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in the country with no shelter , often in the rain for up to 6 or 7 hours , no matter how you were dressed, you still got very very very wet.

Our car seats had thick plastic covers on them which we took off somewhere on the way home after we had found somewhere to strip [ in privacy ] to the skin and put clean wonderfully dry clothes on.

I now enjoy staying dry by design - though the practice is frequently different