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B&H Photo, it's really not so much the helmet itself and it's snaggability as the distraction/extra workload which comes with camera flying (yes also if you only mean to "wear the camera helmet not film anything"), and yes you want the raynox hd3032 pro. ciel bleu, Saskia

I can give you some files, if you give me an FTP. ciel bleu, Saskia

Not sure exactly what you're trying to do/how you're doing it. You can't burn HD to a DVD that'll need to be played in a non Bluray player, you want SD. I use Premiere pro cs4 with a core i7 6gb pc, takes 14 minutes to render a 7-8 minute tandemvideo shot in HD HQ edited in a SD timeline (because my templates are SD and I was helping out another skydiver, making HD templates would probably speed the rendering up as you don't need to re-size every clip). Send to Encore, burn to DVD, voila good video. ciel bleu, Saskia

Um, you could try do a search on here, read a few CX100/15 threads yourself instead of keeping asking us to do all the work for you..? ciel bleu, Saskia

My quite expensive fairly new laptop fails to play HD HQ video from the CX105 without stuttering. ciel bleu, Saskia

I lost count of how many neptunes we've had to return due to damage, never mind how many battery covers I've had to replace over the years, and I've had my neptune tell me its serial number in freefall a few times (li-ion batteries are notorious for failing very soon after the first indication -or not- of a low battery). I've had my neptune tell me I was at -12k on the ground. I've had Parasport Italia digis tell me plain wrong altitudes in freefall (800 ft wrong up to 3k wrong). A friend of mine has a neptunes that reads 300ft wrong fairly constantly. I've had neptunes reset themselves to another ground level unexpectedly, and also NOT reset themselves when I was counting on them to. I've bricked neptunes with firmware updates. I've had battery-eating neptunes, got quite expensive. Quite a few things that can go wrong in a digital gadget like the neptune is. I don't mind, i also don't mind jumping without an alti. But for someone with just a few jumps, better off to better your chances at having a working alti when you need it. I'm not against digitals, heck i'm an Alti2 Field Rep, but I am against people jumping digital who are not ready for jumping without a working alti: chances of a digital not working are far greater than analogs not working especially with students who may drop altis, tend to land ON altis, etc. I say stick with a analog for your first 100 jumps or so, cheap and reliable, then later on if you have the money and want a digital, why not. ciel bleu, Saskia

Not when it's sidemounted it's not. ciel bleu, Saskia

I'm just suggesting you do need to read the manual for these things. Although we may get a national BSR for when you can use a digital alti, like after your A or 100 jumps, or something like that. We now got a few students just off AFF/Static Line, taught on analog alti's but suddenly jumping Neptunes bought over the internet without much clues how to work them, that they're way more sensitive to damage (ie, the landing skills of these jumpers are not good yet and rolling over a neptune might damage the new expensive toy), you have to pay attention to the batteries, digital has a much greater likelyhood of not working in freefall, stuff like that. ciel bleu, Saskia

What about having to adjust for a different landing altitude (as happens sometimes at one of the DZ's close to me), or knowing when/when not the damn thing is going to reset itself? We had a demo jump where the pilot was told to fly over Schiphol Airport at 1000ft, which he did, and all neptunes on board reset themselves after a while to this new "ground level" also one time after a car drive: after getting checked in, getting my gear checked, once in the airplane for our first jump my Neptune, Wave and possibly Argus too were all set to -1200ft or something ciel bleu, Saskia

It doesn't have firewire and lanc, as both of those are tied to tape and this is a memory-card camera. However instead of lanc you use the video port (buy a hype-eye) and instead of firewire you need a computer (or memory card if you shot on the internal drive) to copy videofiles for friends. No remote is possible so debriefing and editing for tandemvids and the like are more easily done on a computer, but you can use slow-mo using the touchscreen if you have to. ciel bleu, Saskia

You can't. Only option is to buy a IR remote, do a search on here on how to open it up and solder/ducktape a switch to it, tape that to your lens, put camera in IR mode and go jump it. Not recommended as this is a real cumbersome and non-reliable way of taking pics. If you want to jump Nikon, get a D70S, D80, D90 (has it's own share of problems apparently), D200, D300 or D700. ciel bleu, Saskia

I'm not, however we sometimes do edit in HD and the footage shot in HD burned to a DVD is still better. With the CX105 for tandemvids and teamtraining I shoot in SD because the edit takes too long otherwise but the liquid and similar lenses are really crappy compared to the HD lenses whatever format you shoot/edit. ciel bleu, Saskia

click On the glass, you want a raynox hd3032pro or hd5050pro. Really. Why would you put an SD lens like the liquid on a HD camera. Yes you'll need a stepring and no you'll not get vignetting. But if you read a few of the existing CX100/105 threads you'd know all that. ciel bleu, Saskia

Um, have you tries reading the other CX100-105 threads? You still want a stills camera, photos taken with this camera let alone captured stills from the video are nowhere near as good as a seperate camera, from no video camera thus far. ciel bleu, Saskia

You're better off jumping a Canon, and if you need the Sony for work you may not want to risk it jumping. If you get it free and can damage it, you could try it but most of the skydiving world jumps Canon and Nikon, which have been proven to work, last long and the switches and stuff can be gotten ready-made. ciel bleu, Saskia

Why? ciel bleu, Saskia

Um, why don't you ask the DZ? ciel bleu, Saskia

Make that 2 rigs, a packer, 1 or 2 GOOD camerahelmets, 2 camera suits, 2 stills and 2 videocameras and a whole lot of backup batteries, switches, memory cards, lenses and other misc expensive stuff. Not to mention the whole setup you need for editing and burning. My camera flying pays for my camera stuff and my rigs, basically. Because stuff wears out quick, you need backup stuff and because you just want newer/faster/neater stuff (well I do LOL). ciel bleu, Saskia

Next weekend we have a Pink Skyvan next to our own Grand Caravan (and maybe next to our TWO Grand Caravans)! Click ciel bleu, Saskia

Did something change with the classifieds or is the problem at my end? Since a week or 2, photos in classifieds don't show up in firefox (running 3.0.10). Have to click on the camera icon to see the pic as a separate file. Annoying... Anyone with the same problem? ciel bleu, Saskia

At Teuge: waiver plus paper check (license, insurance and/or membership of applicable skydiving association, medical if needed, logcard for rig, logbook sometimes). Not sure if we actually check the rig always but it gets seen anyway when you jump. At other Dutch, Belgian, French and Spanish DZs I've been to: same, some with mandatory gear check. Funny when someone grabs your rig "I need to turn on your AAD" and then you have to show them after a few tries how to turn on your Argus ciel bleu, Saskia

Try recovery software, like the software you get with most of the more expensive/fast Sandisk cf/sd cards. ciel bleu, Saskia

No, but some GPSs can act up by switching north to south when you're being blown backwards ciel bleu, Saskia

Try the German forum ciel bleu, Saskia

Blah blah blah. More blah blah. GB's chart is not conservative, and neither is the 190 for this particular jumper as your post seems to imply. In fact that canopy choice would not even be allowed in some countries. And the 200 jump rule for camera should be the absolute minimum. You really do come across as a 50 jump wonder. Stay in the sport longer and you'll see why hundreds of jumps MINIMUM (no matter how great you think you are) for flying camera, wingsuit, canopy loaded at 1.3 etc are a good idea. At 50 jumps and short time in the sport you have no clue, I'd start jumping more, listening to the 14000 jump people more and giving advice less... Then come back after a few hundred jumps and laugh at yourself And maybe again a few hundred jumps later ciel bleu, Saskia