Question - drain camera

[tarkovsky]

Ask @tarkovsky about not doing up his dry bag properly however, and it's all pointless

Don't ask me, it's too depressing

 

[Parky]

I use a battered old Sony A58
I wouldn't take brand spanking new kit into an environment that will destroy it

yeah im ordering an older model of camera so waiting on that

 

[Parky]

I would say any middle of the road SLR would do the job. A sturdy (turdy) tripod to go with it as well.

got a tripod

 

[Parky]

Only get what you can afford to feed to the “Drain Monster” eventually you will drop it in “the Fresh!!”

true that will eventually happen one day

 

[Parky]

Ninety-something percent of Burkey's pics involve placing a strong pinpoint light source a distance behind the subject shining towards the camera and using the subject to mask the light source. This works really well in subjects standing in phreatic tubes (cave passage cut by water under pressure, often circular ish cross section) and people ascending rope in vertical pots, because unlike shots only lit from behind the camera, by the photographer, it lights the tube in the background giving a full sense of depth/relief by lighting the background.

I'm wondering if this would be ideal in drains too? I mean take a boring reinforced concrete pipe, you might think it'd make a dull picture as it has no real features, but a photo of a subject standing centrally in an RCP with a bright pinpoint light on a tripod way down the drain masked out by the subject might make a brilliant pic really accentuating the circularness. I tried in mine levels to recreate that look but only on solo trips and remote camera and couldn't line it up right so gave up, but if there was a separate photographer and subject an RCP might be the perfect location for the technique, that Mark Burkey and Robbie Shone seem to have mastered in caves. They should get down a drain instead?

Sorry the_rubber_johhny for further digressing your thread. I promise I'll sober up, and shut up now.

yeah, on about RCP i will start using multiple lights to light up side pipes in photos maybe multicoloured leds or something to make the rcp un-boring if you could put it that way!

 

[Wevsky]

The same camera i used to take anywhere, D90 nikon, over 10 years old still fully working, bit of drain sludge never hurt it

 

[Wastelandr]

For the low light a dslr on a tripod will come in handy, although the conditions are not ideal. Everything important to me (camera, spotlight) I put a strap on and wear round my neck so I know it cant ever fall into the filth

 

[Parky]

thanks alot everyone! i now have a nikon D3100 with jintu 8mm fisheye lens!

 

[Wastelandr]

thanks alot everyone! i now have a nikon D3100 with jintu 8mm fisheye lens!

Wicked, I started with one of them and got 8 years use out of it