Rob Galbraith DPI: Special techniques

On working in a war zone with P&S cameras. Seriously.

Rob Galbraith DPI: Special techniques:

"He carried two C-5050 cameras on straps around his neck, with one strap cinched shorter than the other, so that the cameras hung at slightly different heights on his chest. The cameras were set for 3-shot burst mode. When a long sequence of shots was called for, Majoli fired a 3-shot burst with one camera, dropped it, grabbed the other and shot a burst with it. The first camera wrote its images to the card, thereby clearing its buffer, while Majoli shot with the second. He just kept rotating from one to the other for as long as the action in front of him continued.

'That was my way to shoot in Iraq,' he says. 'I'm talking about for news. In other situations, I don't need this.' Majoli says he can't think of any shots he missed while trading cameras and points out that the overall system is faster than manually winding a Leica, his pre-digital practice."