Deuce

Cool rig. Is "slab" South African for "case" of beer?

Super news! So are you shipping your bike over, or are you gonna buy one while you're here? Pre 2002 K bikes are going pretty cheap!

Yes. When we move on to PERRIS LABOR DAY BOOGIE INFORMATION! It's all about the airtime baby!

Heck, we can mount it on your helmet, and I'll fly in your burble, you point your left finger, and I'll press your shutter release!

I liked the most recent one, but the one before that was just a little too preoccupied with "japanese sausage". That light gun thing in the one where the airliner is crashed into, ahem, the capitol, was pretty James Bondish and cool. Marcinko seems to relish the violence he engaged in in his books, while Clancy seems more rational about the need for violence to solve some problems.

You're right about buying the digital camera and the pluses of shareware. Lisa's original question was what kind of film to buy to give to generous camera flyers to load into THEIR film cameras. Soon as the demand is there, I'll go digital on my camera helmet. We've talked about this in the photography forum. There's just not enough market saturation yet for camera fliers to mount up digital cameras. I really envy Quade's D60 though .

Evil. But that's why I took and instant liking to you. My wife is familiar with both the slightly kinky and very kinky sides of me. Top, bottom and corners too Evil I tell ya. EEEEE-villllll. I am just warming this chair until I get to jump that thing. Errngh.

Well. The reserve is 18.75% smaller and the main is 11.75% smaller. I should be an average of 15.25% smaller. Hmmm. I'm quilted for comfort now, so how does that fit in to your equation. I'm going to send you a picture of me in wearing both my tie AND my glasses! (bytch)

It was in a sealed clear plastic bag! It's OK!

LOL! We used to call them that until we discovered how convenient it was to carry a gun in them! It was the abolutely easiest way for the people on the street to make cops. Burly guy with no fashion sense, bad shoes, DeSantis black cordura fanny pack = COP. Thin guy with great clothes and leather "fanny pack" that matched his shoes, uh, = NOT COP. * the above represents a broad overgeneralization not to be used by respectful people in forming opinions of others

AHHH! IT's SO COOL! Nothing like watching the boss knock down the mail clerk to get at the Box From Florida! Pretty pretty! Small too! (See size isn't everything!) Pictures soon! La la la!

Damn, Deuce. You're looking exceptionally good today. I think it's that tie. Did I tell you that ties make me all hot and bothered?

I know! I worked at the UPS Oakland hub when I was an undergrad! I'm screwed! M: I NEED a second rig so I can do more free video jumps for DZ.commers! Bytch: Good golly you're MEAN. Be my buddie and LIE TO ME when I need it. Clay: Oh thanks. But since you crashed their computer-thingie, how you gonna get that special hand cleaner that gets all that lanolin off you ARGHRRRRR!

I wanna try Xanax. I saw a skydiva take some at a DZ that shall remain nameless and it appeared to, uh, relax her very effectively. I need some confrontation. Not any silly e-confrontation either. I want to destroy a defense attorney again. Where's my frickin rig........

My new rig is due to be delivered to my office TODAY! WHEN DAMMIT! Tracking shows it's still in Oakland. It's almost noon. I'm not gonna get anything done until it's here. MOVE IT you brown-truck-drivin, shorts-in-the-winter-wearin, cardboard-box-dust-in-your-teeth-suckin, can-you-spell-that-askin, not-more-than-seventy-pound-deliverin MAGGOTS! I NEED MY NEW RIG NOW SO I CAN STARE AT IT UNTIL THE FOG CLEARS ON SATURDAY! ARGH!

Look who'se talking Chickie-Mama! The user profile on you is pretty blank! You do have all that stuff on full profile, though. Never miss a chance to post-whore. When do I get to be a freakin Pooh-bah?

I gotta leave on the 30th. But I'm in for the 29th if that would work.

Oh, I'm sure he knows what hit him. But he probably also knows there's no right answer. "Why'd you let that hit you?!" "Why didn't you let that hit you?!" "Why do you keep flinching?!" "Shut up!" "I hate you!" "Hug me" "I love you" "Go away!"

I PM'd you. I'll set your camera to the same settings I use, like I said, I'm a mechanic about this stuff, not an artist. Soon as I get it to work, I'm done. Talk B-squared into doing the formation loads on the 29th, and me you and Seb will hang from the step when we launch a 20 way. Gimme a roll of 24 exposure 200 ASA print film and I'll help you prove it happened.

Yeah, if you're outside, 200 is great. Your camera has a light meter, so if you want lots of depth of field of focus, sharp from close to far, crank the f-stop down to the smallest possible hole that allows for a shutter speed of 125 or greater. Slower than that will allow for some blurring of stuff that's moving. I try to take a picture of my daughters every spring in this field of flowers behind my house. For that one I like to use a wide open f-stop so that the flowers in front and behind them are blurred, and it makes the field of flowers look way bigger than it is. For freefall pictures I set my shutter priority at 500. This will automatically crank the f-stop down, cause it's bright up there! I get sharp photos with pretty unlimited depth of field of focus.

Oh, Lummy why'd you bring this up? I realized I'm going to have to get an apartment for when my wife and daughters all get their clocks set together. I'm gonna have to move out about 5 days out of every 28.

Eventually one of the camera gods is going to yank me out of here, but with film, more expensive doesn't always mean better pictures. Higher ASA film usually costs more. High ASA film captures pictures in lower light. So in daylight, but inside, you can use a camera with 400 ASA film without a flash. If you are using 100 ASA film you will have to use a flash. Brightness of pictures is controlled by the aperature you're using, the f-stop, and the shutter speed, how long the shutter is open, letting the image hit the film. High ASA film also lets you use really high shutter speeds. So if you want individual droplets of water to show from a pond swoop, you use 400 ASA film at the highest possible shutter speed. On programmable cameras this is called something like shutter priority mode. With high ASA film you might be able to use 2000th of a second on a bright day. High ASA film also lets you use a smaller aperature, a smaller hole the image goes through. The smaller the hole, the sharper the whole picture is from near to far. If the aperature is wide open, the foreground and background are blurry, and if you nailed your focus, only the subject is sharp. On programmable cameras that's called something like "aperature priority". Little cameras usually have poor light transmission through their lenses, so they have to have large apertures. When the aperature is wide open to compensate for low light you'll get focus problems because the depth of field of focus is shallow, and if you use high speed film to compensate for poor light, your photos will be grainy. Whew.

Wow! What a cheap camera!

A real photographer is gonna nail me for being wrong, probably, but 400 is overkill on a sunny day. If you've got a decent camera with a reasonable f-stop, it's much more a function of shutter speed. You might post the details of the camera, the f-stop of the lens, the shutter speed you were using and the light conditions on the camera forum. Some of those guys are really, really good at this stuff. With their advice I've been able to con people into buying my photos and video!

Hey Lisa! The higher the ASA number the less sharp and grainier the photos. If it's sunny, 100 ASA is great. The standard for my DZ is 200, cause we sometimes get overcast, and it's good overall for regular prints. If you intend to make a poster, get the 100. If you want pre, plane, and post jump photos, get 36 exposure rolls. If you just want the freefall, get 24. Disclaimer: I am a vidiot mechanic. Defer to the advice of video flyer artists like JJennings, Brent Finley, MBetts, Ltdiver, and Quade if they pipe up.