JayhawkJumper

I would probably disagree with the chart. Currently at my wingloading I'm more conservative than the chart recommends. I think if anything, its actually more aggressive than it should be. I'm not eager to downsize, I realize why people would be but its not like waiting another year or two is going to ruin your life, whereas a low hook will ruin your life.

I'm not going to use the digital for tandems. I'll attach a film camera for that. Gimp, thats a nice setup. Is that a 10D or digi rebel? I'm pretty sure I'll put the digital on top with the video next to it and have another bracket in front for the film camera. I've also thought about getting a total Tplate from Wes at Rim World Video, but I'd have to save some $ for that.

I just got a flat top and I'm trying to figure out how I'd like to mount it and have it be as versatile as possible. I'd like to be able to mount a 10D and a Rebel so I can shoot digital for fun jumps and film for tandems (not both at once though). What I'm thinking is mounting the 10D and video side by side on top. The other option would be to put the still on the underside of the plate in front, but then I can't get to the on/off switch for the 10D, but it would be perfect for the rebel. For those of you who shoot freefly, do you prefer to have your still mounted vertical or horizontal?

First of all, get AVID. It's easy to learn, extremely fast and there's a reason why its the industry standard. Final Cut is great too but you don't have a mac. As far as the card, AVID has an approved list for video cards. I would get one of those to be on a safe side, but if you already have a decent one, it will probably work fine.

Has anyone ever jumped this camera? It would be interesting to see what 24p looks like in freefall. A friend of mine has a production company that has one and he said I could jump it if I want, anyone else ever tried it?

Photography is my part-time job, along with film school. I've worked for 2 newspapers, freelanced for lots of magazines, and a yearbook. I've also shot senior portraits, passport photos, advertising photos, and of course weddings. And out of all those, I can say that weddings are the biggest money makers. And they can suck if you aren't prepared for a very stressful and unforgiving shoot. You need to at least 2, hopefully 3 of every piece of equipment you own. I went through 3 camera bodies one wedding, they just stopped working, then started working fine again afterwards. From what I have seen, small towns are the easiest to make it as a full time photog. If you establish yourself as the best, all the high school kids will come to you for senior pictures, which is about $500-$2000 per kid. And then weddings are a big plus, if your the best in town. If you are in a bigger city, you'll have to really promote yourself in advertising. Really, you just need a lot of capital to get going, to buy medium format equipment, a full studio, and lots of advertising.

Ilfachrome and cibachrome are the same process, ilford just bought it and changed the name. There are now two ways professional labs make prints. They make them optically, but projecting light through the slide or negative, or digitally, but using what is basically a high tech LCD projector to project a scanned image onto the paper. The paper, using either way is then processed through chemicals. It would stand to reason that you could use a digital printer to print ilfachrome prints, but I haven't heard of it. As mentioned before in this thread, Kodak makes an incredible paper called Metallic. It's really impossible to describe, you have to see it to believe it. It is incredible though. In my opinion, its better than ilfachrome. If you do want an ilfachrome print made from a digital image, its absolutely possible. If you can't find a lab that does them digitally, have a slide made from your digital file, which is done all the time at most labs. I've had slides made from digital files anywhere from 35mm to 8x10. Just don't get a display slide made, get one that's photo quality. Then have the print made from that.

I always thought I would prefer film, until the 10D came out. After that, I will never go back. I have taken some beautiful pictures in the highlands of Scotland which definately convey the same beauty that film would have. They aren't as high quality as ansel adams photos, but they were shot on a 35 sized digital camera, if they would have been captured using an 8x10 view camera with a digital back, they would be. The only current drawback to digital vs. film is that digital doesn't have the same exposure latitude that digital does. This is why cinematographers are resisting 24p and digital capture. Whites blow out much more easily, and the shadow detail isn't quite what film is, but its really close.

I started using Adobe in high school, but now I use AVID Express Pro and AVID media composer 10.2 for everything I do. I love AVID's interface, but I haven't worked with Final cut. I will probably learn final cut HD this year as it is growing in popularity. Right now 95% of work in the industry is AVID, but FCP is growing.

I got a security alert on my computer saying someone tried to connect to it using the senna spy trojan. I got the person's IP address, I was wondering if there was any way of findingo out who they are like their address etc...

You have three options. You can just buy an extra camera for a couple hundred dollars, which should last quite a long time if you just leave it hooked up and use it for dubbing. The second option is to get a consumer grade DV deck. They mostly come as an SVHS/DV combo. The downside is that you won't get much more life out of it than buying an extra camera, and its more expensive. The third option is to buy a professional grade DVCam deck. They are durable as hell, and are fully timecode equiped. They are more pricey, probably over $1,000. You could probably get one from B&H for between 1-2,000. Check out their website. You would definately get the most durability out of one of these, but if you don't want to spend the $, I'd just get cheap camera.

I've read all that stuff, but it doesn't help. I'll go into the cropping tool and tell it I want the 8x10 aspect ratio, which will then show me the entire frame, but I can't save it like that or apply it to all my photos. I can only temporarily crop it and order a print for myself. I have found no way to tell shutterfly to leave all my prints uncropped. I have tried to crop it then save a copy, but even when I do that it saves a copy of the file, but its still cropped when I upload it to the gallery.

I'm having trouble with the cropping tool. I want that stupid easy crop thing to go away and my pictures to be displayed exactly as I upload them. How do I get the site to stop cropping my pictures?

Yes, there is a very big danger in shipping film. You used to be able to write "film do not Xray" on the package, but that doesn't work anymore. They also used to use xrays that didn't harm film. Now they use extremely powerful ones and don't give crap about what they xray. I know when feature films shoot out of the country they either process it where they are or pay a special courier to hand carry it to LA. It would be best just to process it then send it to your customer, and have them pay you back. It also may not be xrayed since its domestic mail, but you never know.

It sounds like the 330 doesn't have true progressive scan. Cameras like the Panasonic DVX100 and 100A are the progressive cameras that I've heard of and worked with. They produce very film like looks. They basically capture everything in 24p and then use the 3:2 pulldown when recording it to DV. To edit, you then have to have a program that understands advanced pulldown to edit in 24 frames. It sounds like the 330 might be using single fields or duplicated fields to mimic 24p but I could be wrong. The 24p I've seen looks like film even on interlaced monitors. Personally I think the next 10 years are going to be very interesting because there will come a point when you can get a PC camera for $1000 that will shot footage identicle in quality to 35mm. That will make things very interesting for the independent film market.

I fell on roller blades when I was a kid and crushed my wrist right next to the growth plate, which is bad. My local doctor set the wrist, then I had it checked by an orthopedic surgeon who said my local doc did a good job and it healed up just fine. I didn't have an erector set on the arm, but I did have a cast all the way up my arm.

Cinema Paradiso is a great movie, long but great. Not many people have seen it though. I would say for me this is what I can recall off hand: Schindler's List Black Hawk Down Kids Amistad White

I haven't flown a wingsuit but I was wondering for those of you who fly camera in your suit, what is deployment like? I've heard some people tell me when you deploy it jerks you back in the opposite direction, which sounds like it would be a killer on the neck if you had cameras on your head. So what do you do for deployment?

You don't have to shoot with an IMO in freefall. I know of crystal sync Arri 35's being used in freefall. In fact, Arri contracted 2kcomposites to build a custom 35mm setup that they wanted to be able to rent out to film productions. They had it decked out with a heads-up display, ground to air video and everything, very impressive.

I am going to create a webpage in the near future and for all the web designers our there, I have a question. I just want to make something simple for my photography business, advertisement and an online portfolio. I'm considering two programs, Frontpage and Dreamweaver. Which would you recomend, or maybe you would go with something different? What is the learning curve like on these two programs?

Ya sorry, firewire 800 is what I meant, but 400 will works just as well for video.

As far as drives go, Lacie's are nice drives, so are Maxtor's. Whatever you get though, get something that spins at 7200 min. and has a nice large buffer like 8 megs. Don't let the computer store guy tell you that you should use USB2.0 b/c its faster. Firewire was built for video, and since it was designed for it, it works better. Firewire 900 would be even better, but its still pretty pricey and not really necessary.

I'm confused, so the head line said what is torture and then there was just a bunch of frat pranks listed???? But seriously, I'd say if these guys were actually found in the prisons doing those numerous acts of torture against iraqi civilians we've heard about a lot, then they deserve a lot worse than being sodomized, much much worse. I wouldn't have been crying too many tears if this happened to the special SS division in the death camps either. If they are simply soldiers as part of the uniformed army, then they should be treated according to the Geneva convention.

Turn on Fox sports, there is an hour long documentary on a base jumping expedition to the baffin islands.

Nobody happens to have a paper comparing the concepts of church and state in Aquinas and Aristotle's writings do they? No? Ohh, thats ok, its only 2:30, I'm sure I can get something whipped up by 9:30. Why oh why did they have to require western civ philosophy to graduate?