Last weeks early morning surface action as well as a Thursday post on Blanton’s BBoard on the forebay had me looking forward to Saturday Morning and the opportunity to fish crease flies and gurglers to busting fish. In addition, I just acquired a 3d GoPro rig and wanted to test it out on some…
Last week, a friend of mine called me from NAB to ask me if I would like him to pick up a Rotor Concepts quadcopter, that I was curious about. Ive been looking at Quadcopter RC Gopro rigs for some time now but the technology is a bit lacking when it comes to isolating the camera…
My best shot this weekend was this unusual shot of a rainbow reflecting off of Bridlevale falls at about 3:15 in the afternoon. I shot this with a D700 and a 24-70 mm at the top of Inspiration Point. This last weekend, we took a quick trip during Mark’s very last “Ski Week” to Yosemite and Badger Pass. …
Last week I played around with some underwater shots of hooked stripers using a modified flat lens on a ski pole mount. There is a modified flat lens kit made by Eye of Mine that really improves the clarity of underwater shots taken with the wide angle GoPro cameras. I have often been impressed with…
There is was, by the side of the country road, a boarded up church framed by a dark ominous sky from an incoming weather front. STOP THE CAR! I jumped out and shot a series of photos. I love the church shot the most. Its still a work in progress and I have some great…
I doesn’t seem that long ago that I was neck deep in HDV tapes. Then came the Xacti HD sd card cams. What Ive come to respect, editing video these last years, is a better appreciation for bitrate over resolution. There are major differences between 1080p videos taken with a flip camera vs a…
So if you had to prioritize the acquisition of a full frame Camera- the Nikon D700 or one of the best Landscape lenses in the world the Nikon 14-24mm f/2 ED AF-S or a pro AVCHD camcorder, which one do you acquire first. I decided to pull the trigger on the lens and use it…
This last year Ive taken an Xacti HD1000 around the world, from Kirabati to Alberta. I am a big fan of the Xacti Series of High Def SD cams from Sanyo that record to QPIXEL H.264 at 720p and 1080i resolutions. I decided recently that I need a second camera to make my editing more interesting so…
Finally found a solution to the ability to playback Sanyo Xacti HD1000 1080i camera captures back on a PC. Its called the CoreAVC Codec. Next step is to test Premier CS4 with native Xacti HD h.264. The CoreAVC High Definition H.264 video codec is widely known as the world’s fastest and most efficient H.264 video…