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They've been around for a long time. I used to listen to their album Girls Can Tell when it first came out. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Exactly. More than once, I've had the same photos running in a US mag as well as 1 or 2 international mags at the same time. Whenever I submit photos to Parachutist or Skydiving, I add the disclaimer "these photos have not been submitted to any other publication in USA"... and they are ok with that. But I won't even send "similar" shots to both magazines, i.e. same jump, same formation, same angle, even if the shots are 20 seconds apart. Same jump, same formation, different angle, that can be ok if it creates a different artistic image. But if the shots are too similar, why bother? This has happened before, less than a year ago. I think (guessing) maybe it was December 2006 Skydiving cover had a green and white airplane on jumprun with guys hanging on the outside of it... photo taken from another plane. This same photo was in Parachutist pictorial simultaneously. Not cover/centerfold, but still in two at once, and on the cover in one which is worse. The photographer in this new case does know better. All wrongdoings aside, it is a pretty cool accomplishment to have a cover shot and centerfold at the same time... but it will probably be the last time for a while that he gets either again. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Are they pricks for uploading sideways pictures to their web gallery, so you have to break your neck to look at them? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That seems odd. According to the 350D specs max burst is 14 frames. And it is indeed 27 (doubled, roughly) for the 400D. I haven't used the 400D yet, I'm curious if anyone else has these problems. HERE is something interesting about CF card performances... but it looks like they haven't updated their database to include the 400D. EDIT: Another LINK I just found... in this review the guy mentions odd buffer performance... so you may be SOL and it is the camera not the card. Buy whatever card you want to try from Best Buy (aka Buy & Try) and if it does not improve your performance, get a refund. I'd be interested to hear your results. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Dude, you can still buy horses if you search hard enough. I'm going to buy like 10 and stock up. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Replying to one of my own old posts. I'm almost finished figuring out how to make my own custom switches. To answer some old questions: The type of microswitch needed is a "tactile switch"... if you search on a site like digi-key for these you'll get lots of options. Regarding the use of a mono cable for "continuous focus"... after some testing this makes no sense to me. There are 3 conductors on the stereo plug for the XT - ground, focus, and shutter. The mouth switches I've bought in the past short the focus and shutter together, so that when the switch is closed they are both connected to ground. This has the same effect as leaving the focus wire unused, and just using ground + shutter to take a shot. HOWEVER, using a mono plug would actually short focus and ground together, which in my testing does not create "always focusing". What it does create is a situation where once something is focused in on, the focus will no longer change anymore, though it will take shots when you close the switch. There would be no advantage to this condition in the air... 99% of your shots would be out of focus. I also bought one of the "pro mouth switches" that were discussed earlier and it does not have any so-called "always focusing features" as it has a regular stereo plug (thank god). I haven't destroyed this one to see how the wiring is done, but I know that neither focus or shutter is shorted to ground, so the only option is 3 separate wires going to the SPST switch which connects them all when closed, or shutter + focus being shorted which will yield exactly the same results. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That's all Greek to me, but have you tried digi-key.com? I imagine you have, but that's all I can think of. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Mmmm.... two thousand mushrooms. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Because we all know everybody follows that. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I've got lots of mileage, it's just mostly vertical. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I'm not sure if I understand that last line, but I get the mental image of a father holding his 7 year old son in his lap and letting him steer the car. How is somebody only ok to fly camera "sometimes"? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I think we should find a big ugly kid, dress him up like Nelson, and pay him to sit in front of the Kwik-E Mart and laugh at people. I'd watch. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I've never considered popping my flash open in freefall, not because I'm worried about hitting something, but because I'm worried the wind would tear it off. Especially with the forward speed of a wingsuit... but even with general freefall I wouldn't want that thing flapping around open. And yes, I shoot TV too. Full manual is nice for ground shots, but in the air if I want to get more than one angle in the same jump (lighting changes), TV can save my ass by adjusting my settings on the fly, to values which are the same as I would have chosen on full manual. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I think you need to re-evaluate the definition of the word murder. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Haha, I was wondering about that too... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That would be great, although the cynic in me doubts the ability of one man to rival a microelectronic product made by Sony. I've always thought it would be cool to have all the electronics from a camera repackaged into a flat dome shaped housing which is integrated into the top of a helmet, with only the lens remaining as a bulky component, so the final product looks like a coal miner helmet. But this would be economically not feasible for any of those capable of doing it. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

There are many ways to pull... full flight, sink out, stall, etc. What you choose will depend on how high you are (BASE?), what type of canopy you fly, how much weight is on your head, and even plain old personal preference. The most basic (failsafe) for new pilots in skydiving environment is to collapse all wings before your intended deploy altitude (best to collapse legs first), hold the collapsed position for a second or two ("sink out") and then dump symmetrically. Over time you'll probably modify that to your own needs. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

This is shaping up to be huge for a "x.5" event.., already probably bigger than the first Z-Flock (1.0) primary event! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I did not use the word "rating" (nor the concept) anywhere in my post. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Actually, to me the ground portion of wingsuit instruction alone can provide many benefits. If Joe Schmoe reads the wingsuit forum for 2 years before buying a suit and going up by himself, he may have gleaned almost every single fact he needs to fly safely, but what if he's missing one? Here's what he knows: - Stable canopy - BOC - Flight patterns - Pull procedure - Post opening and emergency procedures - Instructors are worthless, fuck them But somehow in Joe's two years of casual browsing, he never noticed any mention of exit procedures. On his first flight, he exits out the door in the best wingsuit position he can achieve (something he's been practicing on the ground for two years). He pops up and goes through the tail of the Otter, instantly killing himself, and the pilot shortly thereafter. A competent instructor would have gone over exit procedures. This is just one example, of where having an instructor is preferable over not. It's obvious your vendetta is against people (certain instructors you've met, no doubt), and not the concept of instructorship. You can FUCK in bold and capitals those people all you want, but in doing so you are abandoning the actual discussion at hand, which is the value of a competent instructor. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Glen, look at the part of Jarno's post I quoted above your response. How can you possibly say that is an "absolute"? He specifically spells out that it is NOT THE SAME FOR EVERYONE, but in all cases it is BETTER to have competent instruction. Perhaps a better way to put it is that competent instruction will not in any way make your jump worse, and can either make it a little better, a lot better, or not any better at all (in the rare impossible event that the first flight is perfect in all regards). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Glen, you keep referring to how "well" people do with and without instruction, and it seems to imply to me that you think the point of an instructor (rated or not) is to make you a "good" wingsuit flyer. It's not. Only practice and skills will do that. The point of an instructor is to make you a SAFE wingsuit pilot, and to bring all the major safety concerns unique to wingsuiting to your attention, in case you have overlooked one in your preparation (gear selection, jump procedures, etc). It is entirely possible to figure all these things out on your own, and it's also entirely possible to miss one of the details and have a "less than enjoyable" or even "dangerous" jump because of it. I have met a LOT of people at boogies who say they did one wingsuit jump years ago and will never do one again because they had a horrible experience and landed off. I asked them to describe their instruction and in all cases came to the conclusion that they would have been much better off with better instruction. You are right, everybody does not need an instructor. But that does not mean instructors are useless. There is a very good reason to have experienced instructors with a comprehensive training course, and in-air/post-jump feedback. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That's true... and showing an airplane landing successfully (in adverse conditions) is a pretty good endorsement for that airplane. Just like showing a tire maintaining control (in adverse conditions, where many other tires would lose control) is a pretty good endorsement for that tire. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Maybe it was a motorcycle? Or an ATV, or a golf cart, but I sort of doubt it was another fullsize car. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

None of those are wingsuits (except for GS1). www.WingsuitPhotos.com