avenfoto

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  1. 'm looking for the best quality stills system I can find, while simultaneously being as light as possible. Ive jumped nikon DSLR's for too long, and every monday is spent sore as hell. I love the quality of my d800, but as stated earlier, I'm not getting paid anymore for it on a tandem, so double gopros it is. Commercial work and personal projects, it's dslr all the way.
    Right tool for the job kind of thing. You guys can destroy your necks for a 30$ gig if you want, but I'm done with that nonsense. Not to mention the majority of skydiving "photographers" posses less actual photography knowledge than a high school photo 101 student.

    I've been intrigued by the new mirrorless systems coming out, 10fps and 25mp while remaining small and light sounds like the future to me..



  2. I see alot of "give me" in your post, but that's probably the biggest issue right there. It's up to you and you alone to ensure your competence and safety on a skydive.

    "Please give me something to do that I can practice "altitude awareness."

    Skydive, look at your altimeter, repeat. On the ride to altitude, look out the window and guess your altitude. Reference your altimeter for confirmation. Note the cloud base and ceiling versus said altimeter on way up, and again on way down.

    You sound stressed out, you should "just relax" :)



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    Well I still need to use the term, not to be funny but to help differentiate between the constituents in the tea party.
    I see the Tea Partyers as those who want to dismantle the lobbyist plutocracy that runs Washington. I sympathize with that group.
    The Tea Baggers to me are the ones with the hate signs and who seem to think that things were fine until Obama came along. In this case, "tea bagger" is also meant with derogatory overtones because I think it's much nicer than saying "fucking idiots".
    Then there are the political opportunists. Those are the establishment Republican leadership, the Becks, Hannitys, Limbaughs etc. who are in it for the political gamesmanship and power grab. That group has mixtures of both Tea Partyers and Tea Baggers.
    This mixture is where I run into problems with the Tea Party. There's some good stuff in movement but I can't associate myself with it because of the overwhelming influence from the ugliest, most destructive elements.



    +1

    and to think i read all seven pages of this nonsense looking for a thread on the bp oil spill.. politics aside, that shit is looking pretty ominous to me...

    http://bpoilslick.blogspot.com/



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    I think you need to examine how much American tax revenue is spent pouring people and materiel into, and American blood onto the sands of, Iraq and Afghanistan. How much is being spent on the latest fighter jets; how much on the latest aircraft carriers; how much on defense contractors; how much on maintaining an actual or de facto military presence virtually everywhere around the globe.

    Or... How much on providing the lion's share of the security umbrella for Canada and Western Europe and South Korea and Japan, so that they, not proportionally reciprocating, can provide universal health coverage to their citizens, while self-employed and under-employed and unemployed Americans who don't have employer-based health isurance can either go to the emergency room or go fuck themselves.

    Anyone who doesn't recognize that as pouring drinks endlessly down the alcoholic's gullet is naive.



    well said and agreed.



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    -High speed sync (canon) or FP (nikon) is a bonus if you dont want to only use the Sync speed of the camera.



    both require canon or nikon bodies, op is using a sony alpha



  6. with a sony alpha the 580exII is a total waste of money.

    you wont be able to use any of the features youre paying for.

    you will only be able to shoot in manual mode, so opt for a used sb80 28 or 26 from nikon. less than a hundred bux on ebay .



  7. ok. im a photog not a videog, and all this codec biniss is foriegn to me.

    so im converting all my cx footage to full res mov's with mpegstreamclip.

    then ediing in final cut EXPRESS. i have a few questions.

    1- is there a way to set the mem usage hihger than 2500mb? ive got a dual quadcore 2.8's and 18gigs of ram, but still dragging ass on the renders, and almost no RT playback... is this a FCE thing? everyone of my video editing friends say i should be getting epic performance out of my hardware.

    2- i am constantly having to rerender my entire project in fce on the same machine. when i open it, or even if i minimize the window, post render, to use a different app, then bring FCE back to the front, i have to rerender the entire timeline. this is maddening.
    and it only happens on my desktop, not my mbp. wtf?

    3- is there a way to shoot on the cx in a progressive mode as opposed to interlaced? these lines on all my footage are pretty lousy as well.

    thanks for your input. sorry for the questions. -b



  8. why does everything have to be an argument around here?

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    Otherwise, I'm only interested in cameras if they're on my helmet, and I'm in the jump plane.



    thanks for your input. you sound like all kinds of fun.

    have a nice day.



  9. drouge "arrived" unexpectedly.

    we were seperated pretty good horizontally, but still had some forward movement when he pitched, hence the horizontal drouge deployment.

    the "accidents" generally produce some of the best results...