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Thanks, that made it. " Go here and rotate the cam. You can see the bottom of the cam, where the screw hole is located. http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/handycam/PRODUCTS/HDR-CX120/parts.html "

Triple Yes...

No, Nikon changed the plug in the D90, the new one is bigger, model# DC2 (the D80's one is DC1), and share the socket with a GPS receptor. It feels better than the older one.

For mounting: http://www.rcb-lab.com/index.php/attachment-systems/1-zkulls-tm-attachment-system Switch: http://cgi.ebay.com/Remote-Switch-Cable-Release-For-Nikon-MC-DC2-D90-AK11_W0QQitemZ280305276414QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Photography_DigitalCamAccess_RL?hash=item280305276414 or in B&H. I dont know if someone make them ready to fly, but if not, is a good time to learn how to solder a couple of cables... Im just got my D90, and I love it!

A pic of the bottom of the cam, would be super helpful... Thaaaanks!

In the Obama inaugural address a photographer made a veeeery big panorama. http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?id=15374 He explain in his blog how he made it: http://www.DavidBergman.net/blog/ "I made a panoramic image showing the nearly two million people who watched President Obama’s inaugural address. To do so, I clamped a Gigapan Imager to the railing on the north media platform about six feet from my photo position. The Gigapan is a robotic camera mount that allows me to take multiple images and stitch them together, creating a massive image file. My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes." Super cool device this Gigapan! http://gigapansystems.com/system-page.html

don't worry about the D300 for jumping, is better the D90 for that. Check http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/eng/DxOMark-Sensor Also don't worry about continuous shotting, a camera is not a machine gun, better learn to press the button (or bite or blow) at the right time...

A friend of mine is using it after D70 & D80 and is very happy. Im just sold my D80, and Im buying the D90 for jumping instead of the D300 I have, is lighter and have a better sensor. After Saskia's comment I found out it has a different remote connection, they change it to share it with a gps. No problem anyway, ebay 12$ D90 remote from China (or 25$ at B&H for the Nikon one), split the cable, some solder and done... You will not believe the quality compared with the D70. Awesome screen, live view, hd video, 12.3 mpx, self cleaning sensor, 4.5 frames a sec, 3D tracking AF seen on the D3, 3200 iso, etc... Lets enjoy it

yep, the D2x sensor is crap, and the D700 is the king of low light. An interesting site with sensors performances: http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/eng/DxOMark-Sensor Of course the king of them all is the one impossible to afford: Nikon D3x...

the D40X is even better...

Ji, ji, I don't even get pay to shoot that event... But, was the 2005 Canopy Formation World Record, and thats the kind of thing I want to do even for free... Why 2 cameras? for 2 reason: One is to have a back up, in case one camera/switch/card/battery fail. The other is to use 2 different lenses to have different views. In this case I put both cameras in portrait, but with the 100 way in 2007 I use a 16mm in landscape, and a 20mm in portrait and was perfect (the pics are in www.guscabana.com). Is not a 1D camera, is a D2x, at that time was the best Nikon out, and I need it for an assignment at the World Games in Germany, thats why I bought a $5000 camera (now you can have better image quality with a $900 D90, is not great?). Yes people, skydiving camera work is dangerous, hard on the body and underpay, but thanks to that I was able to make more than 12000 jumps, in 16 different countries, from 50 something different models of aircrafts, meet a bunch of great people and learn a lot from them. Some things in life are just priceless... Gustavo

this is the best answer to all this thread... Jumping heavy gear for many years gonna take a toll in your health sooner or later... I can feel it right now...

here in Empuria, most of the videoteam already changed the stock 18-55 lens for the Tokina 10-17 fisheye zoom, cheaper than the Canon 15, and more versatil, you can have a full fisheye (without buying a 5D), all the way to a wide angle with the same lens... Having the 10,5 and the 16mm, which are better, I only use the Tokina underwater, where I can't change lenses

Che, Melon, don't confuse the people Nikon doesn't make a 15mm, that's Canon... And your pic is with the Nikon 10,5 fisheye for APS sensors, which gives the same angle than the Nikon 16 fisheye with a full frame. Personally, I agree: the 16 or 15 mm lenses in an aps camera is the perfect lens for tandem and almost everything else... They are equivalent to a 19 mm in a Nikon or around 20mm in a Canon. I hear over and over that is like a 24, but its not, because they are 15 or 16mm fish eye, not rectilinear... Also, in an aps camera you can tape an UV filter in front to protect it. Degrade the quality a bit, specially against the sun, but for me is worth don't need to worry about scratching the lens, and I can clean it over and over, change it once a year, and have a perfect front element all the time... Just my 2 patacones...

Maybe the CX12 is a better camera, just didn't work well in turbulence/freefall. If you have other uses for it and your not gonna use it professionally in skydiving is fine. The battery and AV connector are the same.

but wait, maybe in the near future this kind of devices gonna play avchd footage. When all the cameras goes card based, this gonna make lot of sense. Will be the same that happened with digital photography, people needs to storage they pics during a trip, and now you can even use hd storage devices with raw formats. Imagine, you just dump the footage on it, you have an instant backup, and then the team can debrief from there, dont need a dvd/tv, your helmet, nothing, cool... I don't think this cam gonna have problems with turbulence, will work fine like the TG1-3, the problem was just the "top of the line" optical un-stabilizer... The only thing missing is the remote, that screen is gonna be a mess...

yeah, after made the same mistake twice with the TRV900 and HC7, no more optical un-steadyshot for me!

Smaller, lighter and cheaper than CX 6 / 7 / 11 / 12 Electronic steadyshot finally! Exmor CMOS image sensor 1920x1080i, 16Mbps 8 gbs internal memory, plus MS 30 mm lens mount End of February http://www.sony.co.uk/product/cam-high-definition-on-memory-stick/hdr-cx105e#pageType=TechnicalSpecs Time to go tape-less :-)

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Hi All, we have the dates for next year Empuriaflock, here in beautiful Empuriabrava, Spain: April 27 to May 3, mark your calendars. More info to come... Best, Gustavo

Hola Henny, congratulations for the 20 Way, and thanks for keep the CF Big Ways going! Hope next year we can do more. Gustavo

Good editing Jarno! I like it a lot, and the music too. By the way, instead of waiting until may, Im trying to put together EmpuriaFlock '08 Autuum Edition, in october 13 to 19, what do you people think of the dates? Thanks, Gustavo

the D3 is the camera which make some Pro's switch back to Nikon...Low light capacity is out of this world. For 2 years I jumped the model replaced by this one, the D2x, because at that time was the only option to get top quality on the Nikon side, but the size, weight & cost were big pains! now the D300 is all what I need... still using D80 for everyday work, and soone the D40x for lighter weight (when I figure out the remote thing...) Gustavo

actually we need rain here, we´re in a water shortage situation and there are restrictions in place right now. But would be nice if wait 3 more days to pour...

Hi All, happy how things are going! Here are some pics... Gustavo