13th September 2012, 08:52 AM
Given recent experiences where some archaeologists can see archaeology and others frankly can't on some types of subsoil (my main bugbear around here is gravel-backfilled features cut into alluvial gravels), anything is worth a try! Shame about the long exposure times for near-IR though, probably wouldn't work with our on-the-cheap kite rig where it would be most useful and I suspect mega-polecam wobbles too much except in a flat calm.....
@Kevin - yes, auto seems to be the default setting for most diggers, but then I've spent years despairing at finding the site cameras set on 1/1000second again every time I take them out of the box...the first thing I learnt about site photography was to throw the camera manual away and experiment - after all, the guy in a white coat in Japan probably never really expected his product to be used for photographing soil down a dark hole on a sunny day.....
@Kevin - yes, auto seems to be the default setting for most diggers, but then I've spent years despairing at finding the site cameras set on 1/1000second again every time I take them out of the box...the first thing I learnt about site photography was to throw the camera manual away and experiment - after all, the guy in a white coat in Japan probably never really expected his product to be used for photographing soil down a dark hole on a sunny day.....