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"All I can think is that a magnet or some kind of cleaning solution might have done something." Most monitors have some sort of menu for adjusting stuff like contrast brightness etc. Its quite likely that there is a 'De-gaussing' facility in the menu somewhere, try it, might work.

As far as I am aware there are a couple of models of Timeout around. Older models used the wee stubby barrel shaped cells, 28L I think, I'm not sure about Evolution models, and the newer skinny Timeouts use 1.5v button cells. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Started at about 200 jumps, with a borrowed Leo Dickinson Helmet, an 8 mm analogue vid cam (Hi8 had just taken off) and an OM10 for stills, home made bite switch, home made 'D-box', home made 'cameye', and home reconstructed cutaway, oh and the helmet lining needed replacing as well. Was crap then, had some real hairy close calls I'd rather not talk about, and if I knew then what I know now, I would not have put a camera on till I had 500 at least. But I was keen and they were short of tandem camerapeople, and I thought I was a better flier than I really was, sound familiar?. At about 450 I femured in after a long day filming tandems on back to backs, and I got to spend a couple of years thinking about the future while my body healed. Since then I have not filmed a tandem seriously, and have basically given up flying stills and focussed more on video and my editing. I'm probably a better editor than a camera flier these days (not difficult really!), and I'm now really uncurrent, so will probably revert to just fun flying for the foreseeable, I probably won't put a camera on till next summer. The best advice I can give to any newbie is to apprentice themselves to an experienced camera flier, buy them loads of beer, and suck as much knowledge out them whilst they are drunk. Stay off the tandem rotation to begin with (it will be tempting when they ask you to fill in but try and resist), focus on your own flying skills in your chosen discipline, don't try and film stuff if you can't fly your slot without a cam. A camera briefing is almost assumed. You can maintain enthusiasm over winter by teaching yourself how to edit properly, fast and efficiently, this is always a popular skill, one that got me a gig on Brit100 and WT99, although its much more common these days, it was pretty new back then. Watch as much video as you get your hands on, good as well as bad, try and work out what the cam flier was doing to get particular shots, which shots work which don't etc. If you're filming 4way, pay attention to the dirt dive, anticipate, be ready to go high or drop lower as formations change shape and fall rate. You are going about it the right way Zote, get a good snag repellent hat, with no stills to distract you, and make friends at the DZ. There's some good people at Hibble, don't be shy to ask, also don't be shy about visiting other DZs in the area, Langar and Sibson also have a fine tradition of producing good cam fliers as well, and its fun to jump around. Thats about all I can think of right now, gotta go and get the bairn ready for supper, PM if you need any more specifics. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Ach I keep hearing Bush is supported by 52% of the nation. No, he's supported by 52% of those that get off their asses and vote. These precious few believers in the democratic process who were about 112 million. Out of lets say 300 million poulation, the POTUS got about 60 million votes of approval (for easy counting). Don't kid yourself, Dubbya is only liked by 1 in 5 of the nation, and thats about 20%. Surely?

Squirrels bad. Ferrets good. Have a good one folks, beer time here. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Old news. Anyways Rummy is likely to go soon, from what I gather. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

The programme I saw, the guy was urging his flock for Dubbya, in no uncertain terms. Thats not a criticism of Dubbya, you know if I could spin it that way I probably would.

2.5 TDi unit from an Audi or VW wreck might help. Already comes with a turbo, and about 150 ponies out of the box. Bags of low end torque, which probably what you are after. Its a V6. And no, you can't have the one out my car. Or, maybe look at a wrecked Land Rover/Range Rover, diesel models are common here, but they are likely to be rare across there. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

No chip vans at Mullardoch or Affric.

I'll tell you what alarmed me about this. It wasn't Bush's values being formed into policy, thats inevitable, and I don't have an issue with it, so this isn't about that angle. What alarmed me was religious leaders (Evangelical preachers) urging their flock to vote one way or another from the pulpit. To me, thats just wrong. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Cromarty ? Dingwall ?" Not enough oil rigs in the background -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Can't be Tobermory, not enough brightly painted houses. I'm guessing Ballamory jokes would be wasted here.... Its not Auchenblae, where I live, thats for sure.

Rugby, soccer is lame. I'm not going to this test, but will be at the next one in Glasgow. Gigg 'em Aggs. Whoop! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"all will go well for the Aggies." Who are they playing, and should I bust out my AOT tees as remote support? Tell ya what, I'll root for the Aggies, if you root for Scotland against the Ozzies, we need all the help we can get for that one. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Some reports said 2000 tonnes, others up to 3000 tonnes. It was in Kolding, there's other spectacular footage of a similar event at Enschede in Holland, if anyone feels like doing the Google thing. Fireworks scare my Dawg, so both of us will be doing the valium thang tonight. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Can't be arsed looking but nobody hurt, right? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Okay, I'm Scottish, and pretty well travelled in my own country. The 'chip van' could be any one of many. That Loch side scene could be just about anywhere. I'm going to hazard couple of guesses, but they are just SWAGs. Loch Fyne, Ullapool, Kinlochbervie. PM me if are going anywhere near Aberdeen, for a beer, and a get together if you want, or even if you want to know whats hot and whats not.. edit>>> looking again, cos I'll do just about anything for a jump ticket It could be car park at Eilan Donan, on Loch Alsh, at the end of Loch Shiel, more famous for the view the other way though... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Get the Bytch back to slap this poster for bad grammur. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

If only they had TV in those days eh? http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1298089#1298089 anyways.. "When questioned by the King how he could conspire such a hideous treason, Fawkes replied that a dangerous disease required a desperate remedy, and that his intentions were to blow the Scotsmen present back into Scotland." He got what he deserved..bastard. "How did Fawkes escape punishment by the way?" I think his neck broke when they hung him, the rest (drawing and quartering) was just show. "His body being weak with the torture and sickness he was scarce able to go up the ladder, yet with much ado, by the help of the hangman, went high enough to break his neck by the fall." from http://www.britannia.com/history/g-fawkes.html -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"So I would like to understand what could go wrong..." Well, you've come to right place for discussing this very subject. here's a few reasons for starters.... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=search_results&search_forum=forum_7&search_string=jump+numbers&search_type=AND&search_fields=sb&search_time=&search_user_username=&sb=score&mh=25 This has been discussed many times here before, the search facility can be set to look only at the camera forum, if you run searches with phrases like "Jump numbers" (did this for the 4 pages of links you got at the link above) "Beginner" "Newbie" "experience required" You'll find loads of great advice, and stuff to think about. Ultimately, we can't stop you jumping camera, many people will refuse to advise you at only 50 jumps, they will simply say don't do it, and they are right. Giving advice to someone with your jump numbers about flying camera is very difficult, and it gives us a moral dilemma. My take is, you are going to do it regardless, so you might as well be well informed.

Side track.. KZN, is that Kwazulu-Natal? I hear its very pretty there.

RW then. Are you filming from inside the formation basically recording your own jump from your perspective. If so, you probably want something along the lines of a .3. Try Royal lens, http://www.royal-lens.com/ or waycool http://www.waycool.com.au/ I would not recommend you do this filming though, chaos does not respect your intent (not doing anything too hard) but it will exploit your vulnerabilities (lack of experience), I really can't stress this strongly enough. Safety lecture over.

"Contact Halliburton and its subsidiraries." Not for political jobs, surely Jeanne?

"Un-fucking real. There are people on that message board..." Problem is, its very difficult to keep ignorant, vitriolic, fuckwits from posting stuff on publlic forums. Quite often the stuff this sort of people post is designed purely to cause some sort of reaction, quite often it works. They are not interested in debate, other people's opinions, or reasonable discussion, they merely want to shout . Frequently forums like that just act as a place for people to pour out their rage and frustration. Inevitably, this brings flawed logic, but they won't listen to anything other than their own voice. There is no reasoning with them. More often than not these people are just sad lonely trolls, if I were you, I'd just ignore them, don't let them bug your peace.

I also found a place in Thailand with an even more obscure name.....its... "Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnop- paratrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathit- sakkattiyavisanukamprasit." wow. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson