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Ehm, you have a camera like that and you don't know how to shoot pics with it? Anyway I jump a nikon 16mm, sometimes for fun a 10.5mm. ciel bleu, Saskia

A 2 stage flare has nothing to do with risers. Do NOT try to flare a Springo with back risers it stalls VERY easily You should be able to land a springo just fine, with or without adding speed using frontrisers, provided the canopy and the lines are not in bad shape/out of trim and you're not overloading it. It's best to get someone to video your landings and the get a good debrief from someone who knows what he's looking at. ciel bleu, Saskia

Oh BTW check out the 3 CF World Championship daily videos I just posted on skydivemovies.com for clips where you see the camera flyers at work, you can get an idea about how you have to be able to fly your canopy (and what the burble does) to get good video. ciel bleu, Saskia

You still have way to few jumps to be jumping a camera, period. Our national rules say the following about filming crw: 200 jumps total, b license, have done at least 10 real (ie, docked and be-docked) crw jumps, so you know a bit of what to expect. Then you need a suitable canopy and wingload. Most people doing crw are at 1.3-1.4 which is too high for you right now, and rotations sink like a stone so you'd need higher still. You want to jump a crw canopy for preference otherwise you'll not be able to shoot good video because of too much forward speed and lift. I started out my videoing filming crw, I still love doing it. it's good fun but it can be a challenge to do good (esp with lower jumpnumbers = bigger canopy = video that makes you seasick and/or having to jump a humungous amount of lead). If you want to film crw later, do at least 10-20 crw jumps now with a suitable canopy and have fun doing it you'll learn a lot, also stuff that'll help you in your skydiving career later on. Then work towards flying a suitable canopy, either a real crw canopy or 2nd best a 7cell like a hybrid triathlon, regular triathlon, freefall storm, spectre, but those are all 2nd best mainly because of their slow openings. You may be allowed to follow crw jumpers out earlier than that,without the camera and on a bigger canopy. I did a lot of jumps like that it's fun. Be safe and be out of the way but you can practice a bit and probably you also get to practice landing out with the crw jumpers (heck I had to land out a lot at first). Only jump a crw canopy at the wingload you need for whatever group you're filming when you're ready for that canopy and that wingload, but a setup like that will give you the best (ie, debriefable) video. You'll also need to jump without RSL make sure you're ready for that too. A cutaway is irrelevant And yes jumpnumbers matter. ciel bleu, Saskia

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Hi Cheryl Thnx

If you have never packed/jumped a Lightning, try not to give advice ciel bleu, Saskia

Today the Russia-2 CF2 team scored a new world record of 18 points, video here. 4 rounds of CF-2 sequential, 3 rounds of CF-4 rotation and 2 rounds of CF-4 sequential have been jumped. Official scores for CF2 up to round 4 have just been posted here. Daily video here. ciel bleu, Saskia

Check the meet website for news updates, photos and daily videos. First (unofficial) scores have also just been posted. ciel bleu, Saskia

The pictures ciel bleu, Saskia

From this year, so far: Bending your stills remote a bit on climbout because the door is smaller and on the "wrong" side and not noticing the autofocus got stuck on like 10" for 2 back-to-back tandem videos Being so busy you have to borrow so much gear you wonder what color the main (what main again?) is going to be THIS time and if the rig is going to fit at least SOMEWHAT (having student-day flashbacks when cheststrap hits your chin on opening) DVD players that eat DVDs so you have to redo some while you miss a jump or two to keep the customers happy. Having someone sit on your camera helmet/rig, breaking the video camera all the way, and then sneak away without saying anything so bye bye 1100 euro videocamera And then having to do a few more jumps with said camera all wrapped in ducktape Landing backwards for the first time ever, with a 1.5-1.6 WL, missing barbed wire but getting dragged camera-helmet-first through baby trees and weeds and stuff, almost ending up in the pond/brambles, and then having to go help your TM get up and untangle the tandem main from the brambles. The winds REALLY picked up during the climb up and we both misjudged our approach for the catchers, oops. People complaining the photos are upside down and then keep calling you all day at work plus they keep calling the dropzone too to complain. Having to constantly "rescue" camera flyers who keep forgetting things like card readers, firewire cables, laptop chargers, tapes, alti's, dvds, dvd covers, what have you, usually not getting even a thank-you and sometimes not even getting the item back and of course some jumpers just grab ("borrow") what they need without asking Getting stuck on frontfloat climbout due to pilot not cutting and the large tandempassenger already blocking the door so no chance for a good exit. Getting SO much ice on your stills lens on exit that the autofocus is now on the ice for the rest of freefall Hanging from 3 fingers off the floaters' bar because your TM did a ready-set-g...eh-no count and then rocked back again because the TM behind him was prodding him so hard he thought there was a problem so he stopped, talked to TM behind him then looked at me and went quickly Having to fix your wingclip on a boarding call, thank God for pullup cords ciel bleu, Saskia

I open @ 4000-3500 ft usually, I jump a blade most often, camera always (full camera helmet mostly), intermediate type canopies @ ~1.4 WL, couple hundred wingsuit jumps. ciel bleu, Saskia

I got a few shots published from WorldTeam '04, nothing fancy except for the photo finish shot, but they credited the wrong photographer If you want publishing, send me quality shots with Dutch skydivers in 'em and you may end up in our SportParachutist ciel bleu, Saskia

No such thing Photography is an art, not a science ciel bleu, Saskia

Wendy Smith. Kewl shot from a kewl lady

Talk with your instructors before buying anything: there may be restrictions on what you can jump for the time being, like no colored goggles, no fullface helmet, no digital altimeter, no audible, stuff like that. ciel bleu, Saskia

I likes. Who's the photographer? ciel bleu, Saskia

Here is the competition video ciel bleu, Saskia

Yes. This is a prosumer camera. With Canon, less zeros = more expensive camera. ciel bleu, Saskia

Take a look around this forum, plenty of starting-out settings tips on here for different situations. Biggest tip of all is learn to know your camera, start with reading the manual front to back (twice) then go read a (any) good photography book. ciel bleu, Saskia

Then what the heck is the use of jumps like that? You're not learning anything, you're not making any remotely decent video, and you're still potentially endagering students. Learning to fly camera using tandems should be banned Learn to fly camera using at least A-licensed jumpers, filming solos, 2ways, 3ways, 4way teams, whathaveyou will make you a much better cameraflyer than "practicing" like what you're doing now. With regular jumpers you WILL crash on them on exit, maybe also during freefall, feel the burble, learn how to frame video, learn to deal with the distraction of camera flying, all without the danger of hurting an unsuspecting student where they pay a lot for the jump and now have the added distraction (for them and certainly for the TM) of watching out for you - would you want an unknown newbie anywhere close to a family member's tandem jump? Learn to film experienced jumpers, pay your own jumps for a while then you'll see you'll get your slot covered once it's known you want to film and are decent at it, then go film experienced jumpers some more, and then try your hand at tandems, you'll be much safer having twice the number of jumps you do now with most of them camera flying and then you have a good chance of shooting decent video from the start. ciel bleu, Saskia

A safire 135 (WL 1.2 or less) pinned my head to my chest so hard it hurt for 2 days. ciel bleu, Saskia

Not to be a buzz-kill, but using a square canopy (rather than a round) to parasail, especially on land, is a good way to break yourself. That was sarcasm ciel bleu, Saskia

Clear&pulls. Took me forever to do them stable, and since I was jumping a lightning at the time, every unstable/too long delay hurt too I got nicknamed a freeflyer for a while then too ciel bleu, Saskia