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a Stiletto can land you really hard, yes ciel bleu, Saskia
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I think that a "safe and conservative jumper" meaning never do hp landings etc is in more danger because if something does happen it happens way faster than you're used to (faster than normal flight) and you have no idea how to deal with it. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Those camera's need to be both topmounted so you want a helmet that can handle either both on top next to each other, or video on top and stills on front. edit: if you really have so little jumps, or for anyone starting camera work, it's way better to start with flying video only, not both. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Depends on how close you fly to the tandems, it needs to match your video too. I've seen excellent results with everything from a 10.5mm fisheye to a 20mm lens. I really don't like the kit lenses, but some people manage decent photo's with those Generally fixed is better than zoom but the sigma 10-20mm gets good reviews too. I personally dislike the fisheye effect but fisheyes are cheaper and lighter than straight wideangle lenses. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Be glad that battery worked at all. I have a few different brands M-series batteries that do not work on HC1/A1 etc. One of these batteries does not even fit physically. All work fine on my TRV25. Sony keeps updating the interface... ciel bleu, Saskia
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I drift off to one side with smaller canopies if I come in to land with my legs crossed Cross other way = drift other way. Nothing wrong with my canopies, guess I'm bad at balancing or something Have someone else (someone experienced) jump it if you can, see what they say. ciel bleu, Saskia
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As far as the memory cards, you want SanDisk Ultra or SanDisk Extreme cards. Also, lens cleaning kit? Tripods? Buy those separately if and when needed, would be my advice. That wide angle lens? Useless for skydiving anyway. I'd prefer B&H or similar too. ciel bleu, Saskia
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First of all, get a good photo-how-to book. Seriously. 2nd, you didn't say which lens you're using. 3rd, what do you want to shoot. On the whole, I shoot at 1/400-1/500 sec shutter-speed priority (forget sports mode and the other picture modes), with the exact shutter speed depending on the light, you want to end up with an aperture of around f/8. Manual focus on whatever distance the subject is gonna be, usually slightly before infinity but depends. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Why not use the old lens (provided you were happy with it) and get a step-up ring for the pc109? FOV won't be exactly the same as with the old camera but close enough. The PC109 has a 25mm lens though not 30mm. And are you sure about 35mm I know 37 but not 35? Not a Sony? ciel bleu, Saskia
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You're welcome. Of course it's Henny doing all the flying here.... This way of videoflying is how I want to do it when I grow up ciel bleu, Saskia
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This isn't a customer's vid, it's just a teaser vid on our website. Regular vids are like 8 minutes, have different songs etc. And are usually of 1 person But yeah, it's deployment + instant pulling (no track), like in the video the part with the cloud cover, then following the tandem around. That's why you have to jump a suitable canopy. It's just 1 camera/video. edit: here are some real videos (rough edit, no music): http://www.paracentrumteuge.nl/realxstream/index.html ciel bleu, Saskia
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If shown both kinds of vid (not all videopeople do this), the customer always wants the canopy ride included. Some videographers complain though, since they can't/won't do this and now look "bad". What goes wrong, usually only if the TM doesn't cooperate and floats too much or is unpredictable when coming in for landing. But most are used to this by now and cooperate fine, some TM's regularly get nice shots turning themselves around and flying backwards for a while, passengers love that ciel bleu, Saskia
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I know one guy who shot a few jumps with an 80mm lens (using film not digital). Looked great, with the city looking really close. I doubt you'd get good shots using too long a lens, but a 50mm lens (on a DX-size digital) should get some nice results already. Too long a lens would be too hard to get framed. Also the longer lenses are bigger, not so good for skydiving. I'm thinking of picking up a 50mm f2.8 since they're real cheap (and small and very good quality too), was thinking of jumping it sometime. Love to see some results if you try it! ciel bleu, Saskia
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It doesn't, on our DZ. Some of our cameraflyers dump high and fly a suitable canopy (ie big vengeance) so they can follow tandem up till landing. http://www.paracentrumteuge.nl/component/option,com_weblinks/task,view/catid,48/id,48/ ciel bleu, Saskia
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As far as I know this is an unusual incident. The "closing pin" or whatever it is called was correctly in place? Of course. I had contact lenses so I always made doubly sure ciel bleu, Saskia
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Ditto. I'll stick to my D80 for a great while yet ciel bleu, Saskia
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I jumped a Z1 for a few head-up jumps, until the visor flipped open (I had contact lenses) ciel bleu, Saskia
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I agree. Something like http://www.paracentrumteuge.nl/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,489/page,view/catid,16/PageNo,1/key,7/hit,1/ is too dangerous, IMO. ciel bleu, Saskia
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My Japanese is really bad, but Sony =/= Canon ciel bleu, Saskia
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Is there anything wrong with having gear thats
dragon2 replied to PilotLevi's topic in Gear and Rigging
It's 12yrs and 3months, and they do not magically refuse to turn on ciel bleu, Saskia -
And there is the problem right there! You need to fly the canopy using all it's got, otherwise you will not know what it is capable of and how to prevent situations you cannot get out of in time. Fly the damn canopy or get another; it can seriously hurt you when something unexpected happens and you DO pull on a toggle real hard. Flying a canopy using just a few inches of toggle is not gonna teach you anything. ciel bleu, Saskia
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Awe, but he's going to be swoop dog. He hasn't decided yet, might become a CRWdog yet, c'mon give the guy a break he's only 8 weeks old ciel bleu, Saskia
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Ehm, WHO? ciel bleu, Saskia
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Our new DZ pet!!!!! PuppyPowerrrr! ciel bleu, Saskia
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Apperantly ciel bleu, Saskia