Kangaroos in slow motion

[Patrick]

Subject matter is kangaroos filmed at 54 fps. All the filming took place on a rural property on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. Film stock was Ektachrome 64T and the processing and transfer was done by Nanolab.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-LDMYen9M

[Scotness]

Graceful even in slow motion. Footage looks a bit under exposed/contrasty in some parts though unfortunately. You can't half tell they're from Kangaroo Island though - thickset and woolly! The ones around Brisbane and out west of here are a bit leaner and redder!

Nice footage too -- you know there are heaps around Canberra too - shot some on video once but not film

Scot

[Scotness]

Should mention too I've shot some with a 243 too - and I can tell you I've never slept under anything as warm as a Kangaroo skin - sad but true

Scot

[Patrick]

Thanks! Yea, a little bit of underexposure here and there but I wasn't too bothered by that. It's interesting seeing the differences in roo species from different regions. Oh yes, these ones are nice and woolly. I have seen some individuals over on this property that are absolutely huge. Really, really bulky with massive shoulders and they don't seem to be afraid of anything.

We were staying in cabins in the bush on the outskirts of Canberra a number of years ago. Yea, quite a few roos around there and quite nimble too. I remember coming back one night and seeing one doing this impressive jump over a fence. By contrast, the roos on this property are very reluctant to jump over fences. They prefer to go under them which stuffs up the fences and makes it easier for sheep to escape.

Nice and warm huh? They make for good eating too! Sorry to all the Skippy fans out there...

[Scotness]

LOL we eat kangaroo meat too - extremely high in protein and since they don't have hooves they are far better on the environment than cattle...anyway I digress!

But about the size thing - I'm pretty sure it's an adaption to cold - even the gum trees down south have thicker girths and thicker bark. The galahs and magpies I saw around Canberra are huge compared to the ones here. It's all part of a natural clinal range (random link here http://www.utm.edu/departments/cens/bio ... pecies.htm)

Interestingly I once read that all the bigfoot/sasquatch descriptions in North America show a clinal range too - something you wouldn't expect if they were faked. Where is that regular 8 footage....?

Scot

[Patrick]

Ah that adaptation to cold makes a lot of sense with regards to size differences in animals. No surprise that the Siberian tiger is the largest of all tigers. Interestingly, on Kangaroo Island, the reptiles here have adapted to the cooler climate remarkably well - they are more active in cool weather compared to reptiles from many other parts of Australia. On overcast days in winter over here, I have seen a tiger snake right out in the open, and a goanna just outside of it's burrow. Actually, I encountered tiger snakes two days in a row on cool overcast mornings this summer. One of them, a little young one, was quite feisty and gave a little chase!

Oh, that well known footage of Sasquatch doing the walk through the woods? Yea, it looks like 8mm film to me but sources indicate that it was 16mm. It was discussed recently on Cinematography.com that the guy wearing the 'ape suit' came forward and admitted that it was a hoax. I certainly had not heard about this revelation before.

[slashmaster]

Nice shot. I know you shot at 54 but did you have it transfered at 18 or 24? I just spent a 200 asa b & w roll on a couple of bengal tigers and lions at my local zoo. Maybe next time I'll shoot the kangaroos too. Is that footage and your super 8 time lapse the only 2 super 8 in your youtube?

[Patrick]

Yea, shot at 54 and transferred at 24. Hey cool that you got kangaroos at your local zoo as well as tigers!

That's right...I only have two super 8 clips on youtube. The time lapse was transferred to VHS (it was all that I had at the time!) I have shot lots of K40 since the 1990s and it would be good to have some of that transferred to digital oneday. I do believe that these days, Nanolab only transfers footage that they develop themselves. Would be good to find another outfit that does frame by frame transfers at a good price - for the K40 material that I have shot.

[slashmaster]

Yea, shot at 54 and transferred at 24. Hey cool that you got kangaroos at your local zoo as well as tigers!

That's right...I only have two super 8 clips on youtube. The time lapse was transferred to VHS (it was all that I had at the time!) I have shot lots of K40 since the 1990s and it would be good to have some of that transferred to digital oneday. I do believe that these days, Nanolab only transfers footage that they develop themselves. Would be good to find another outfit that does frame by frame transfers at a good price - for the K40 material that I have shot.

Yeah, we probably have about a dozen kangaroos at our zoo. We have a white tiger and an orange tiger from the same litter. They stalk and chase each other and they will run back and forth along the fence chasing after me. I got a little of that action on super 8. When my buddy finds his 16mm camera I plan to shoot some of this action at 64 fps.