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I have this very vague reflection of reading about you years ago doing this with Amy. And it seems to me that I even recall a little crw being done?

Canon 10-22 versus the tokina 11-16 on the Nikon

Gotcha. I'm just still being surprised at the differences between the canon and the Nikon. My canon shot at 1/640 for years - similar speeds in sports mode even. The Nikon wants way faster speeds. I just did a bunch of scenery settings with the 2 cameras side by side at various apertures. The Nikon consistently chose WAY faster shutter speeds than the Canon. For example I just took both cameras to my front door and took a picture of the sky at f/11 ISo 100. The canon chose 1/16o as its shutter speed ( aperture priority mode ) while the Nikon chose 1/400. At f/5.6 the canon chose 1/500 and the Nikon chose 1/1250. Quite the difference. So it's definitely clear to me I have to shoot at much faster shutter speeds on the Nikon. What I'm not sure about is why? Is it the difference in the sensor in the camera I guess?

They are compressed to try and put them on here.The files were quite a bit larger but I had to try and shrink them. One of em I did crop too.. I had it on Shutter Priority Mode, 1/640 - it chose the aperture. I can change it to 1/100 for sure. Sports mode chose 1/1600 and ISO 400 which was odd. And the noise I was talking about was mainly the dots all over the pictures. Its odd - its becoming apparent to me that the settings I used for years on my T1i are going to be quite different than what work on the D7000. That kinda surprises me.

But how come when I had sky in the shot when they were coming in to land they weren't there? They were also not there on a jump after this when I shot in sports mode. The camera is practically new so I can't imagine it having often that much dust in the sensors. I took a whole bunch of flower shots yesterday and they were definitely 100 percent sure not in those pictures.

The dots were not on any of the ground photos or the photos in the airplane. They were in the free fall shots, and shots I took while under canopy. They were gone again by the time I took shots of the tandem coming in to land. They were not on the lens (notice they change size and location). I really think I must have some setting stupidly set the wrong way and I'm too blind to see it but I can't figure it out.. The pictures I took with the camera on sports mode all came out fine with no issues.

I'll try the -a mode for autofocus. The lense coozie seemed to help it make it through the jump, although I'm still getting noise when I shoot in p mode - at least at 1/640 and 200 iso In sports mode I didn't get the noise I absolutely Prefer to shoot shutter priority mode but at the moment sports mode is the only one not giving me noise in the picture. Why I can't figure out. It is on autofocus but the pictures seem to all be in focus. I think it was wind vibration which caused te shutting off. I just can't figure out the noise issue. It's very odd. Thanks for any help.

Tandem I don't think will be a big deal. From having done some AFF jumps with a double amputee last year - body position is radically different because they have no lower body weight. To pursue it on her own. - absolutely she should do a bunch of time in the wind tUnnel because everything we normally teach about body position is 100 percent wrong for her. And is truly going to be trial and error to figure out how to be stable. But a tandem I don't think would be a big deal. I just don't know any skydivers in that part of the country. :)

I know of multiple 1000 plus jump number people who never learned to do all the basic stuff they should have learned when they jumped more docile canopies. I can think of 2-3 fatalities in the past few years when an extremely experienced person was having to land off airport on a small canopy in a tight area, and rather than doing a traditional approach or a braked approach, they did swoops instead,, and landing off airport in a small area they tried to do the same swoop they always did and it killed them. And I truly believe if those people have practiced more traditional landings on their small canopies, they wouldn't have felt the need to try to swoop into a tiny landing area. If you swoop 2000 jumps in a row and never a 'slow' landing, when shit is happening, you resort to what you know. Everyone needs to practice slow landings - because if all you ever do is a 270, and it's been a thousand jumps since you practiced all that basic stuff you learned when you were a rookie, someone with 100 jumps who practices it every load may be more likely to survive. Quiz the radical dudes at your dz and ask them when they last did a straight in landing. I bet a large percentage of them won't be able to remember and even say it's impossible on their current canopy which is bullshit. But if you never learned to do it on slow canopies, it's impossible to learn on fast ones. And it really seems we have a generation of fast canopies pilots who only know how to go fast and never learned all of the other aspects of flight. If we start requiring the next generation to go slower and take the time and really learn to fly their canopies, I truly believe the next generation of fast pilots will be a million times safer Heck - I've been told by someone who teaches canopy courses than any brakes increases glide - and even though I do it on 80 percent of my jumps and have tons of video to prove how easy it to go straight down or back up in brakes as need be in the wind - I've been told its impossible. And in all honesty all my AFF students know how because they watch me do it all the time, but this person with thousands of jumps who downsized quickly, doesn't even believe its possibly when in reality it's pretty dang trivial to do. There are a lot of people who have thousands of jumps on tiny canopies who never learned the basics. Requiring proof that they mastered the basics on each canopy before they downsize will make the nex generation of canopy pilots the best that have ever existed. Far too many of our current generation never learned the basics - and if you never mastered them on a 190 or the 170 or the 150 - it's hard to learn on the 99.

I went up to NYC last week to film on the Anderson cooper show any met one of the most awesome chicks ever. She was a dumb 17 year old and tried to hop on a train and lost both her legs. She has a decent amount left on the left side, less on the right She probably weighs 80 pounds currently. This only happened last fall but she is already skiing and such and she has the best attitude on the planet considering what happened to her. ( the show should air this Wednesday on CBS in the afternoon for anyone who wants to watch it ). Her father apparently spent years doing military skydiving and she always wanted to jump but got hurt before she turned 18. ( she's 18 now ). She was even wearing a closing pin necklace on the show. I would love to help her jump. - even if it's just a tandem. We talked about spending a good bit of time in the denver wind tunnel figuring out how to fly before possibly being able to do it solo, but I would love to help her find a way to at least do a tandem. I'm pretty sure she has enough legs to be able to safely fit in the harness. And she only weighs 80 lbs so weight isn't an issue. She lives in Utah. So anyone up in the part of the country willing to help her follow in her fathers footsteps? She was an idiot to try and jump on a train but 2 months after losing her legs she was alrealdy downhill skiing and racing. This kid rocks. Watch the Anderson cooper show Wednesday afternoon to see. She impressed the hell out of me. I'd love to help her get her first skydive.

Next jump I went up with it in sports mode. Great pics but cut off 1/3 way through skydive. Interesting enough it chose to shoot at ISo 400 and 1/1600 shutter speed Taped the half a coozie around it an gaffers it to hell and went up with my original settings - worked the whole freefall but still had a lot of noise in the pictures that didn't exist in sports mode Gonna do the next jump in sports mode and see if I keep the artifacts out and what settings it chooses and then maybe choose its shutter speed

I'm still trying to get my Nikon D7000 to work well for me in free fall. I put a Tokina 11-16 on it today. Worked great and got gorgeous photos the first jump. Second jump photos were dark and it stopped shooting halfway through and all the pictures were full of noise it appeared - even though the iso was only 200.. There were lots of black dots in the picture and they weren't on the lens. Went away by the landing shots. Nice sunny day with some white puffs.. I had it in shutter priority mode. 1/640 CH mode for shooting. 6 fps. Sunny White Balance. AF-C ISO 200. And the settings were the exact same for both jumps which were 10 minutes apart! I'm so confused as to what is happening!!! Both jumps were in focus.. I'm gonna try sports mode next time to see if it helps anything but if anyone has any clue I'm in. Had this problem last week on the kit 18-105 but thought a wide angle lens would be better. The Tokina lens did take gorgeous pictures on the first jump.. Any ideas as to what could be happening?

Awesome Tory! I loved it

I'll dig it up in the morning. I like that it splits them myself. Makes editing easier. If you don't hear from me by lunchtime email me again - I probably forgot :)

That's too crazy!!! Love em

Ummm. To rotate pictures, apple a to select all, double click and try open in preview. Select all again, go to the menu rotate left, and quit. They are all rotated. I wrote an automated script for one of our camera guys that spins em 180. Took me less than 5 min to figure that out and it's drag and drop. I'll email it to you of you want And iMovie is crazy easy to use - what is your specific problem other than wanting to store movies in a different location than iMovie wants?

One thing that people forget is that this will hopefully make people better canopy pilots. If people are forced to slow down, they will have more time to master all aspects of their canopy flight on one canopy, rather than downsizing for more performance while never taking the time to truly learn all aspects of a canopy. It takes a bunch of jumps to really master a canopy - something that many people in a desperate rush for more performance never learn how to do. That's how you get people with a thousand jumps on a fast canopy scared to land off, scared to do braked approaches, scared to land any way but into the wind.. Take the time to truly learn.

I'd be interested in seeing the poll divided by jump numbers. My hunch would be that the more experienced jumpers would be more in fair of the BSR than the rookies just because that have seen more stupidity. Education is important, but I wish we could teach good judgement. I know highly experienced canopy pilots who know tons of stuff but who routinely exhibit poor judgement ( swooping in traffic etc )

Have you ever jumped it with the 18-105? I tried two jumps with it with that lens on Sunday. One took beautiful pictures with it until 5 seconds before pull. The second jump it stopped taking pictures during climb out and didn't resume until under canopy. Lazlo thought it was too much shake or something. I'm looking for a wide able at the moment, but I had trouble with the kit lens.

And I would actually say the go-pro is more snaggable than the cx150 the way most are mounted I'd suggest the contour if you decide to go with the smaller camera.

A 1.4 wing loading is crazy for someone with 51 jumps. Was this written by a big guy? Brian germains chart is far more reasonable.

Arg. I was completely happy with my t1i last week. I've spent all day googling and had about decided to sell the d7000 and pick up a canon 7d for the same price - I already have a handful of canon lenses. The reviews of the 7d and the 7000 make them very close - but the Nikon being better in low light and the canon being better video ( which I never use ). The canon does slightly better in fps. Arg. I wish I had a 7d in hand to compare with side by side. The Nikon takes way better pictures than my t1i and has all sorts of cool features. I suspect that the 7d does too but I don't have it in my hand. What to do. Arg. So many decisions. Waaahhh. This is just my rant of the day. I was happy last week with the camera I had.

I've heard of links bending but they always held until after landing. Most metal links have slider bumpers as well making it hard for the lines to fall off. I do remember a fatality a few years back I'm California where a soft link failed in the middle of a swoop killing the skydiver.

I got it with an 18-105 for $800. Sweet deal. I just have to decide to keep or sell it ;). It does take sweet pictures.

Yesterday I picked up a Nikon D7000 for basically half price from a fellow skydiver who needed money. I was planning to just resell it, but googling it seems that this is a much better than my canon t1i that I currently use. So I am contemplating :) Doing a search, I have seen things about bite switches but different nikons using different switches. I've always been a canon person, so I'm not sure which type or .... In one of the threads, someone mentioned being able to buy cheap Chinese switches which plug right into the Conceptus. I wasn't sure if that would work for this camera. So I know I should just sell it and take my profit :) but I can't help but contemplate how much effort it would take to try and use it skydiving. The lens it came with has excellent reviews from around the web so I could get away with using it for the moment. Any hints or clues for someone who knows almost nothing about nikons?