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Thanks, I'll give that a go. Its a bit of a PITA having to click the battery in when the 3 min light goes on!!!

Bump!! Anyone?? Or is this heading for the camera bin?

Thanks for the reply, even with the CamEye disconnected, (Camera out of helmet), it won't shut down. Taking the battery out was the only way I could strop the green camera light from flashing

Out of the helmet, if I turn it off manually, ie the switch next to the record button, the camera shuts down but the green camera light flashes intermittently. In the helmet, if I switch it off with the cam eye II, it shuts down normally then automatically turns itself on again!! Has anyone experienced this or have any idea why this is happening. The camera is about 18 months old

Looks great, I'll get the 'boss' to have a look. Many thanks for posting the pics

The 'boss' & I are starting freestyle. I have done some searched on here and downloaded much of Dales stuff. Are there any other good sources of free info on this discipline?

Can anyone point me in the direction of a manufacturer who can put together a good freestyle suit, ideally in custom colours??

http://www.fibrezonecomposites.com/index.html The bear is optional!!!

Looks cool, do Merlin have a web page??

Nice reply Love your work mate Blue ones

What a great post to read over lunch, most entertaining!!!

DOH! We'll be back at Picton 6/7 Aug See you soon

Ramblers wins this race every time. It's set up for students and learning rather than tandems. 1000 carton shouts a year can't be wrong!! Just did a week's learning curve camp there to remind myself how good the place is. PM me if you want more info

Ah, sorry! Didn't read your post properly. Gut feeling suggests you are stuffed. Have a play with some of the capture settings and see if it will accept mpeg. If you can get the DVD into mpeg you may be in with a shout. Gut feeling still applies though! Failing that get hold of said camera people and borrow tape/DV camera. Good luck

Pinnacle will do that 4 U. You can do pretty much a full movie edit & production with it. It's pretty basic stuff but fine for whacking a couple of dozen jumps together onto a boogie DVD for personal use You just need to change MP3 format to WAV. I downloaded some software from the web. Shout if you get stuck Paul

I'm only a baby at this but have jumped at Byron & Ramblers and call Picton home. Comments here seem pretty accurate. Personally I wasn't taught two-handed TAS drills so can't comment on the Byron experience! I thought the place was great and never felt remotely feaces like! The APF publishes a list of all our DZ's with names and CI contact details. I can scan and email a copy if you want. Shout or PM if you want more.

Sh!!!!!!t My Mrs would have killed me.

One of my AFF instructors has a false leg. It used to give me the sh!ts when he took it off in the plane! It came off during a tandem jump. The passenger was a little surprised to find her TM one leg less than when she boarded!

I have had a few PM's on this. This wasn't at my regular DZ (Picton), and I'm not about to post names or places either. Sorry to disappoint!

That's as big as it gets, I cut it out of the rest of the picture to remove identities/DZ This is a bit better

A mate of mine did a tandem this weekend and sent the pics through. He was none too chuffed when this was pointed out on the exit shot!

Pull?

So much anger in this thread. So many people with more posts than skydives too! Time to get a life people!

http://www.fibrezonecomposites.com/camera.htm

I would like to stir up a bit of debate here…. What is so wrong with strapping a camera on the side of your head at 100 jumps plus?? I’m not talking about trying to video tandems or AFF, just jumping with a video camera to record your jumps. I know you US guys don’t get to C before 200 jumps. Here in Oz, with CI approval, we are good to go after C licence, i.e. 100 jumps plus star crests and landing accuracy. (The star crest requirement is specific to our DZ). Just to engage in RW with tandems our DZ stipulates minimum 500 jumps with 200 RW jumps in the last year plus CI/TM approval. I picked up my new helmet on Saturday, (Cheers Cameron!!). Check out http://www.fibrezonecomposites.com/helmets.htm for the coolest camera helmets ever. Custom made for my HC20 too, awesome. In went the camera, out came the jump ticket and off we went. ‘We’ being me and the Mrs. Nothing complicated, just a 2 way RW jump, no wings just a rel suit, no sticky out bits on the helmet, no ring sight, no marks on goggles, just the camera. No focus on filming, the camera just recorded what it saw. Went on later in the day to do some 4 ways on the same basis. Even from a view inside the formation, it was still a useful debrief aid and diary of my jumps. Sunday, I put my hand up for someone’s Star Crest. The load organiser asked if I would try and video, (Yes he is fully aware of my experience, or rather lack of it, jump numbers and camera). I flew the camera slot and it came out pretty well, sure, I was a bit far away, but close enough to provide an accurate record for debrief. Truthfully, I didn’t want to be closer and was just happy watching the formation build. There is obviously some fear from existing professional camera flyers that their jobs are at risk from all these upstarts, one guy at our DZ got some proper stick for taking a couple of camera jobs this weekend! If you are a competent flier, what is so wrong with recording what we love so much?? Thoughts?