Filmshooting

Well Rollef, you started it off, now you say, "I guess some buyers just feel the need to have the highest bid." Yes, there are some people that have such an inflated sense of their own importance that they can't bear the thought that somebody else might also want what they think it's their...

What an involved catalogue of confessed addiction to internet auction sites! It makes me wonder what kind of mental age some people have. There is only one safe and sensible method of buying from Ebay..... 1. you decide whether you realy want to buy the item, 2. you decide what is the maximum sensib...

No offence taken! "Old man" is an perfectly acceptable name for someone's father; "old lady" or "old girl" is the same for a person's own wife. BUT, "old woman" is not usually polite, especially when refering to a man! The Australians use "OLDS" as a...

Oh, I forgot.....and swimming trunks or an extremely efficient raincoat, but I reccomend the former!!

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This is Alan M Jones's "old man". ( See a couple of posts earlier). For those who have never been there, "beautiful Curitiba" is not an overstatement! If any of you out there want to enter a film, and you are dedicated travellers, Curitiba is not only well worth a visit but is en...

A plano convex lens is flat on one side and domed on the other. For the use proposed it does not matter if the lens is plano-convex or bi-convex (domed both sides) as long as it has a fairly short focal length. The actual focal length is not important; it needs to be short enough not to be too far f...

Roger, Thank you for the comment... For your and anyone else's info... I set up my machine with two monitors side by side: 1. TV reciever on AV input showing live Composite Video output from the Sony Analogue camera, and 2. PC monitor with PC running Cinecap preview screen showing live S-Video outpu...

Roger, The information regarding delay from a DV camera when capturing... does the same apply when using an analog camera via a USB capture device? I use a fairly old Sony HI 8 camera connected for hi band via a Pinnacle Movie Box type capture device. I occasionally get streaking but put it down to ...