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undoctor
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 Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 10:41 am Post subject: testing a new camera! |
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Hi Larry,
Played your vid and here's what I found. I have two browsers, Firefox and IE. I use FF for almost everything except videos, as no matter what I've tried videos from youtube and the like chatter and jump, although the sound is usually unbroken, so I use IE as default for videos.
Opened your video and it jumped and stuttered from beginning to end. The sound was OK. Out of curiosity I opened it in Firefox. Not only did the video jump and stutter, the sound stuttered as well. I don't know if it's my connection or the video or vimeo that is causing the reduction in quality across the board, just wanted to let you know so you have the data you're looking for.
By the way, here in PA if we do touch and goes on a lake we would get very wet and have to fish our aircraft out of the water.
BTW, your HKS seems to be a significant improvement.
Dave Kulp
Bethlehem, PA
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On 8/9/2014 6:57 PM, Larry Cottrell wrote:
| Quote: | I finally decided to try Garmin's Virb video camera. I have been dithering for months as to whether it was worth the expense or not. Finally I decided to give up and get the thing. One of the features that I liked was that you could show your speed on the camera. I seem to have trouble remembering my actual flying speed, since there are so many distractions when one is suspended between the clouds and the ground.
After I added the "baffle" to the muffler,( a 5 inch flat plate that seems to realign the air flow coming off the 8 inch round muffler ) I seemed to be going a lot faster than I remembered before I added it. One of the things about the Virb is that the GPS in the camera records the speed, and a whole lot of other things. Not being that interested in my heart rate, I think I will pass on that one. My measurement of excitement is how dry my mouth gets.
I stuck it on the other wing on the tube that holds the wing when it is folded. That seems to be the least amount of vibration on the entire plane. I did get some harmonics, especially when I throttled back. The camera is supposed to have a "stabilization feature" but apparently flying isn't that stable.
The colors produced by the camera did not require me to use the "enhancement feature" of my editing program. It seemed to be a little dark, but I tend to fly early in the morning and the lighting is not always the best then. In Sept the air should stabilize enough to be able to fly during the middle of the day when light is better.
All in all, I like the camera. There are lots of features that could be if not helpful, at least interesting. As for the comparison to the Drift- About the only improvement to the drift is the GPS features. When the drift is set properly ( in this case minus one f stop) there is not a lot of difference between the two. I still think I will keep the Virb however.
https://vimeo.com/103023194 owyheeflyer
Larry
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lcottrell
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| Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 11:08 am Post subject: testing a new camera! |
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Thanks for the input, but it has to be on your end. It doesn't do that here or anyone else that I have heard. They are the highest quality that I can get on the net, so the size might be your problem. You can always default to 720 rather than the HD. Sorry that it didn't show as intended.
Larry
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:38 PM, David Kulp <undoctor(at)ptd.net (undoctor(at)ptd.net)> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi Larry,
Played your vid and here's what I found. I have two browsers, Firefox and IE. I use FF for almost everything except videos, as no matter what I've tried videos from youtube and the like chatter and jump, although the sound is usually unbroken, so I use IE as default for videos.
Opened your video and it jumped and stuttered from beginning to end. The sound was OK. Out of curiosity I opened it in Firefox. Not only did the video jump and stutter, the sound stuttered as well. I don't know if it's my connection or the video or vimeo that is causing the reduction in quality across the board, just wanted to let you know so you have the data you're looking for.
By the way, here in PA if we do touch and goes on a lake we would get very wet and have to fish our aircraft out of the water.
BTW, your HKS seems to be a significant improvement.
Dave Kulp
Bethlehem, PA
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On 8/9/2014 6:57 PM, Larry Cottrell wrote:
| Quote: | I finally decided to try Garmin's Virb video camera. I have been dithering for months as to whether it was worth the expense or not. Finally I decided to give up and get the thing. One of the features that I liked was that you could show your speed on the camera. I seem to have trouble remembering my actual flying speed, since there are so many distractions when one is suspended between the clouds and the ground.
After I added the "baffle" to the muffler,( a 5 inch flat plate that seems to realign the air flow coming off the 8 inch round muffler ) I seemed to be going a lot faster than I remembered before I added it. One of the things about the Virb is that the GPS in the camera records the speed, and a whole lot of other things. Not being that interested in my heart rate, I think I will pass on that one. My measurement of excitement is how dry my mouth gets.
I stuck it on the other wing on the tube that holds the wing when it is folded. That seems to be the least amount of vibration on the entire plane. I did get some harmonics, especially when I throttled back. The camera is supposed to have a "stabilization feature" but apparently flying isn't that stable.
The colors produced by the camera did not require me to use the "enhancement feature" of my editing program. It seemed to be a little dark, but I tend to fly early in the morning and the lighting is not always the best then. In Sept the air should stabilize enough to be able to fly during the middle of the day when light is better.
All in all, I like the camera. There are lots of features that could be if not helpful, at least interesting. As for the comparison to the Drift- About the only improvement to the drift is the GPS features. When the drift is set properly ( in this case minus one f stop) there is not a lot of difference between the two. I still think I will keep the Virb however.
https://vimeo.com/103023194 owyheeflyer
Larry
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undoctor
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Glad it's not a problem with others. I'll try again later. My server may have been overloaded.
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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Larry Cottrell <lcottrell1020(at)gmail.com> </div><div>Date:08/10/2014 3:07 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: kolb-list(at)matronics.com </div><div>Subject: Re: Kolb-List: testing a new camera! </div><div>
</div>Thanks for the input, but it has to be on your end. It doesn't do that here or anyone else that I have heard. They are the highest quality that I can get on the net, so the size might be your problem. You can always default to 720 rather than the HD.
Sorry that it didn't show as intended.
Larry
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:38 PM, David Kulp <undoctor(at)ptd.net> wrote:
Hi Larry,
Played your vid and here's what I found. I have two browsers, Firefox and IE. I use FF for almost everything except videos, as no matter what I've tried videos from youtube and the like chatter and jump, although the sound is usually unbroken, so I use IE as default for videos.
Opened your video and it jumped and stuttered from beginning to end. The sound was OK. Out of curiosity I opened it in Firefox. Not only did the video jump and stutter, the sound stuttered as well. I don't know if it's my connection or the video or vimeo that is causing the reduction in quality across the board, just wanted to let you know so you have the data you're looking for.
By the way, here in PA if we do touch and goes on a lake we would get very wet and have to fish our aircraft out of the water.
BTW, your HKS seems to be a significant improvement.
Dave Kulp
Bethlehem, PA
Do Not Archive
On 8/9/2014 6:57 PM, Larry Cottrell wrote:
I finally decided to try Garmin's Virb video camera. I have been dithering for months as to whether it was worth the expense or not. Finally I decided to give up and get the thing. One of the features that I liked was that you could show your speed on the camera. I seem to have trouble remembering my actual flying speed, since there are so many distractions when one is suspended between the clouds and the ground.
After I added the "baffle" to the muffler,( a 5 inch flat plate that seems to realign the air flow coming off the 8 inch round muffler ) I seemed to be going a lot faster than I remembered before I added it. One of the things about the Virb is that the GPS in the camera records the speed, and a whole lot of other things. Not being that interested in my heart rate, I think I will pass on that one. My measurement of excitement is how dry my mouth gets.
I stuck it on the other wing on the tube that holds the wing when it is folded. That seems to be the least amount of vibration on the entire plane. I did get some harmonics, especially when I throttled back. The camera is supposed to have a "stabilization feature" but apparently flying isn't that stable.
The colors produced by the camera did not require me to use the "enhancement feature" of my editing program. It seemed to be a little dark, but I tend to fly early in the morning and the lighting is not always the best then. In Sept the air should stabilize enough to be able to fly during the middle of the day when light is better.
All in all, I like the camera. There are lots of features that could be if not helpful, at least interesting. As for the comparison to the Drift- About the only improvement to the drift is the GPS features. When the drift is set properly ( in this case minus one f stop) there is not a lot of difference between the two. I still think I will keep the Virb however.
https://vimeo.com/103023194 owyheeflyer
Larry
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