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Stunts like that have gotten dozens of wingsuiters killed in the last century. Very big wings that are rigid will break your arms in freefall, and very large wings that are not rigid will not slow you down enough. ciel bleu, Saskia

PLEASE leave the IMG tags out. But no signatures? Than mine doesn't exist no? You can turn sigs on/off in your display settings however. ciel bleu, Saskia

The DOWNWARD speed of a wingsuit can get "fairly" low (still gonna hurt) but the FORWARD speed needed to achieve this (speed = lift) is very very HIGH. Ergo, be my guest ciel bleu, Saskia

In BASE environment a standard practice is to pull in full flight. You get a clean deployment and do not loose any altitude. This method may not work very well with standard skydiving gear. bsbd! Yuri. I tried it a few times with a classic2 and a spectre.... Got linetwists (my container has fairly high corners) and bruises on my shoulders, but was open QUICK Might work better with a container with open corners and packed grommet to bottom or top ciel bleu, Saskia

I wouldn't recommend the P setting. It gives you no control whatsoever. Most people I know shoot in shutter priority, you want a shutter speed that's fast enough but in keeping with lighting conditions (ie sunset load or bright sunshine) so most people shoot 1/320 - 1/500. Then there's people who shoot in aperture priority to ensure the depth of field they want, usually you'd go for f/8 - f/13. On the whole, either of these 2 settings work out fine if you know a bit about what you're doing. The P setting however you give the camera all the control, this setting will give you the most inconsistent quality. Like shooting with 1/60 all your pics will likely be blurry but the camera might think it a good idea. My advice would be shutter priority at 1/400 as a default setting, this will work for most conditions in freefall, you'll learn when to fiddle when you get some more experience. Save P for on the ground ciel bleu, Saskia

i'll just rattle off the standard reply: On the whole, canon cameras have problems when skydiving. If you use the search, you'll find they are not recommended, sony cameras ARE. Also, if you're profile is correct, you have no business flying a camera yet anyway. ciel bleu, Saskia

Meh, I spent 6 yrs programming in CA Ideal, that wasn't too bad, they should've stuck to mainframe software Oh. Right. They discontinued Ideal ciel bleu, Saskia

I rarely have to edit video at work, but also for other stuff an AV can be very annoying. We keep having problems with CA's antivirus, It's a pain in the $%^& sometimes. Sometimes it blocks documents from being printed, seemingly randomly, causing timeouts and even crashes. And we print large documents a LOT. ciel bleu, Saskia

Interesting statement that I know nothing about - can you elaborate please? I'd agree with: Norton and any hard work for the pc do not go hand in hand ciel bleu, Saskia

Buy anything but an integrated videochip (intel etc) and you'll be fine. 7200rpm for a laptop hd is not necessary, as the harddrive is smaller. Any duo processor is fine (dual core, core2 duo, amdx2 - cheaper!), 2gb ram, a largish harddrive and definately buy an external drive to store your video on, always store the video on another drive than your windows is on anyway. Don't forget you need firewire, not all laptops seem to have firewire so check for it. And the more usb2 ports the better. ciel bleu, Saskia

Tried a search..? http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=search_results&search_forum=all&search_string=tertiary&sb=score&mh=25 ciel bleu, Saskia

Not to step on any toes I will rephrase myself. It takes a highly skilled skydiver with special gear to pilot a canopy in such a way that it will exceed CYPRES firing parameters. CYPRES was specifically designed not to fire during a wrap, entanglement or spinning mal, so it is not very likely that it will. That said, for CReW, your money is much better spent on a Tertiary. In this particular case (referring to the original post) trowing the Terts could have released tension on the entangled arm to help free it, or at least stop the spinning and provide more time to free it with a knife. Guys, try to be constructive with your postings. Last time I checked, a CYPRES doesn't give a shit if you are spinning, upside down, shitting yourself, or making love to a foam snake for too long....If you meet the firing parameters, it fires. Please, someone correct me if I am wrong. An expert cypres will very probably NOT fire when in a wrap because you very probably WILL NOT meet the firing parameters. What's your point????? ciel bleu, Saskia

Go read all this: http://www.dropzone.com/safety/Gear_and_Equipment/index.shtml ciel bleu, Saskia

Must've been premiere then...? Never could get it to work (using pc-old-something, trv25, trv-old-something). Like I said, I usually capture straight from the NTSC cameras anyway, no problems then. ciel bleu, Saskia

Are you sure risers will trigger it? Have you tested that? If so, great

? Going fast has nothing to do with going low? You really need the low sensors, trust me ciel bleu, Saskia

Labels kill dvd's All our regular video staff uses inktjet printable dvd's, they print a nice fullcolor label on it using an Epson printer. I can do that but for now i pre-made a stack of lightscribe dvds for video and cds for photos. I had a bunch of those lightscribe discs lying around anyway. I also have labelflash dvds but although i like the blue color (obviously), they do tend to scratch much easier. Also they're not available in cd-r version. May finish my stack of those dvds, but have to uninstall Nero then install the special labelflash version, and than later install the regular/lightscribe Nero again ciel bleu, Saskia

Well over here the clouds can hide other planes, and especially gliders as they like to hang out directly underneath the clouds! So not going through clouds makes a lot of sense here! There have been deadly accidents already of skydivers hitting gliders, although not at our DZ. ciel bleu, Saskia

No, No, No, for our visitors the best is just good enough. . . lalalalalala, Stroopwaffles and Weed from Holland, with your permit, please btw. some people from overseas don´t even know, Holland and Germany are different countrys Might have something to do with them calling us "Dutch" while we call ourselves "Nederlanders" or "Hollanders" but Germans call themselves "Deutsch" ciel bleu, Saskia

It is hard for smaller canopies when a bigger one is flying inconsistent, ie spiralling down and doing s turns low. When you're spiraling he can not get below you easily then when you let up or worse go to brakes he sinks like hell. Then you end up lower than him and do s turns on final, making it really hard for him to predict exactly where you're going and REALLY hard to stay behind you. While these are all predictable mistakes with your jump numbers, it's better to start flying a predictable pattern NOW, creating the best and safest landing order and separation is everyone's business and you have to work together to make it happen, you weren't helping here. That said, he could've handled it better though! I suppose he wanted to do the best video he could for your stepdaughter and was annoyed because it didn't work out, so I'd cut him some slack But for next time, some more planning might be in order or you'd have to land further away, or something. In the meantime, I suggest you learn from this, and go talk to your instructors about how to make your pattern predictable and to avoid coming in too high on final

That TM is taking on a LOT more risk than you are. Yeah, you've got shit all over your helmet but the TM has 200 pounds of stupid actively trying to kill him... We have significantly more medical problems with video people than with t/ms, at least over here. So I'd say a video person takes more risk with his body than a t/m. ciel bleu, Saskia

Your first point: AFAIK it can't be done. You need to capture NTSC footage directly to a pc using an NTSC camera. This may change with HDV cameras but for DV I've never been able to do it. Your second point has been talked about here quite a few times. i use premiere pro only to mix and match, no after effects needed and much easier. Do a search on my method I've written about it here a few times. ciel bleu, Saskia

Usually I shoot S at 1/400 with ISO 200 (my D70s doesn't go faster), this works for most cases. Sometimes I tweak the ISO (up to 400, never higher - I dont like noise!), and if I use my D80 I generally jump it at ISO100, and sometimes I jump at 1/320 or 1/500. Other than that, I fiddle with exposure compensation, jpeg and/or RAW shooting, manual focus or autofocus. ciel bleu, Saskia

The last I paid for a b+w was 79 euro however that was for bigger glass, so it'd be less for the kitlens you're right. You definitely want the HMC coating and probably the slim version too so it's still an expensive filter compared to what others I've seen jump with. but way better if you do want a filter ciel bleu, Saskia

Why? to help reduce haze? I agree with the why... Why NOT: 1. an UV filter does nothing for digital so you do not need it to actually filter UV. 2. an UV filter is always detrimental to image quality no matter how good a filter you buy 3. ok so you want a UV filter to protect your lens a bit, even if you buy the best filter (ie, B+W) why the **** would you buy a filter that is as expensive as the lens you're trying to protect? Doesn't make sense on the kitlens. just gives you more expensive stuff to damage when skydiving. And like I said, buying a cheapo filter makes the kitlens even worse. Hence, my "WHY?" The kitlens is dirt cheap, so I'd just risk damaging it and if you do just buy a new one (or a better lens LOL). ciel bleu, Saskia