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It was a lot of fun and next year I'll go back and do it the hard way: two days walking, two days dog sleighing and two days reindeer sleighing. Sleeping in wilderness cabins and cooking on fire. This year was easy with a hotel and some excursions.
Finland is such a pleasant country, wonderful nature an nice people that you can trust and rely on (as opposed to the people at home with double agendas and steeling your stuff behind your back). I can forget everything there.
Photographing wasn't so easy. Early january you have little light, it is very dim and six of the seven days were overcast. So you end up shooting with fast lenses (had only one with me) at high iso. And then there is the cold of course. But I cannot complain. While I was there the worst we had was -16 degrees celcius. The past two weeks it got to -35 degrees celcius.
Exposure is the hardest with all that snow, +2 stops often is not enough (because of the dim light) and you need to change it all the time. Fortunately I shoot raw. :)
I had no problems with the D70, the lenses or the batteries. I do dislike my 18-70 dx now. It is too slow, vignettes and is too soft at wideopen.
The Canon A60 proved to be a piece of crap. Underexposing, too slow lens, crap high iso. I expected that, but I didn't expect that I would use a small camera that much. I'm thinking about getting another one, like the new Olympus Stylus 810 with some mild weathersealing.
Anyway, north Finland = higly recommended and I hope that you like some of those pics. :)
Edit: And try to set your whitebalance manually as much as possible. It was the worst thing to correct in postprocessing.
Message edited by author 2006-01-29 17:57:33.
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