gearless_chris

If you go on the Skydive Chicago Fun Jumper facebook page you can ask Keith Nugent if he has anything available, he rents out trailers.

I haven't seen her in a long time.

In Indiana our volunteer firefighters have blue lights on their personal vehicles.

Norman Kent does.

I haven't done quads, but I have done back to backs all day for the MWSL meets. It's kind of fun.

Can you reach the toggles without unhooking the wings?

It will never come out, and it's some pretty tough stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVyM0DtApkQ

You shouldn't side mount anything anyways, it's bad for your health.

Trunk was working on one, haven't heard about it lately.

I just found out about the A5100/A6000 overheating problem in video mode. Apparently they can only shoot video for 5-10 minutes at a time. Bummer.

I was already planning on switching to Sony mirrorless for video this year. Looks like I'll be getting at least one A6300.

I bet that A6000 with a GoPro would be awesome for work and team jumps. Heck you could even through a speedlite on and be lighter than a Canon/Sony CX set up.

Oh and start early, there will probably be a very short window of time when you can balance the glow of the balloon with the light level of the sky. I run into that all the time when shooting at near dark, maybe a couple minutes where every thing is perfect.

I have better equipment now, but it's not necessary. A crappy tripod will work, just put some weights on it. I often use barbell weights or those ankle weights you find at the Salvation Army. You could even use a gallon jug full of water in a pinch. Put your camera in mirror lock up mode, and use either the 2 second timer, or a remote switch, so you aren't touching the camera when it shoots.

This is with my Canon Rebel T1i, not sure which lens, but probably my Canon 10-22 since it was shot at 22mm.
Shutter speed .8 seconds
Aperture at f4.5
ISO 200
Shot at 9:00pm on July 7th, 2012.

I have been doing a little experimenting with lighting.

Only the T4i and up have autofocus in video mode, and it is horrible. If there isn't enough movement it will hunt back and forth trying to find out if it is in focus or not. Better off just using it in manual.

Don't they have TV shows where lots of people watch video of somebody else fishing?

Probably nothing by after you replace all your gear to get current. :-D

Probably a lot more than this, dz.com doesn't usually come up. I finally made it to Fitz last year, that seemed like a pretty big dz.com happening.

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Mine too. To me it seems that the battery lasts quite a bit longer since the LCD screen stays off most of the time.

That's cute and all, but how do you attach anything to the big ring without locking the second ring in place? Maybe that was just for demonstration purposes.

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***Were you 'Liking' a lot of things in a very short period of time? One of my girlfriends got a similar warning for doing just that.

Ooh, did she click "like" on the warning?

Where the dz.com "Like" button?

They had to kill him to keep him from killing himself.

Thanks Cat!