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Snippy · Force Majeure

RE: Extreme Trains

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

OK...I need a plan B.

Lake Tower · Duke of URLs

The Krink wrote:

Calvin...I got a break a few years ago when my mom was
able to borrow my uncle Bob's Hi-8 video camera. My Hi-8
Cannon A-1 went tits up in the late 90's. I had a couple dozen
Hi-8 tapes in limbo for a long time that I was able to finally
get onto DVD's. For the most part it was basically copying the tape
with little editing other than to get the BN stuff together and the
UP, CN/CP, SP/DRGW, on respective DVD's. The scenes/footage
of every train still runs together just like it was on on tape.
If I was to try to extract a particular shot within a 44 minute
block of continuos footage would this program be able to do it?
I have this very shitty DVD player that I've used to make copies
of a couple of my DVD's. Atleast I've been able to breakup or
separate scenes into "chapters" that would make that footage
in a definite bundle to work with. I'm at a disadvantage also that
my number one computer will play DVD's but not record DVD's.
My friendlist in my locale is very low at this time. Nobody to take
me by the hand and teach me this shit.

The lead videographer at the dear old University is a good friend of mine. I can ask him how to do it. Hell, if I do a good job covering for him at our presentation Wednesday morning, he might even be willing to convert the files for you on his gajillion dollar editing suite.

Astrobuck10 · Cured

I don't know jack shit about the above topic.
But I'm listening, the free flow of information
technoligies on the interweb and sending a great big
"How the hell are ya, good to see ya !" to Lake Tower.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Good to see you're still around Lake Tower. Hope things are better
for you.

Calvin · Upgraded Condition?

Astrobuck10 wrote:
I don't know jack shit about the above topic.
But I'm listening, the free flow of information
technoligies on the interweb and sending a great big
"How the hell are ya, good to see ya !" to Lake Tower.

Yep, its good ta hear from ya Lake Tower.
Every time I get GP-30's in my consist I think of your old Avatar.
On the cd/dvd front...
I've been able to eke by, mostly one movie at a time.
I'm astounded that a new product hasn't come around to replace the DVD.
Now that the war over HD has been won by Blue-Ray, its time to introduce a new medium that is capable of storing more in a smaller package, and is capable of being programmed/read with no moving parts and in micro nano seconds. (made up unit of time equal to 1/100,000,000 the resonant frequency of a tse tse flys anal muscles as a fart is being generated.)
Oh...and once recorded, it can be erased with no trace whatsoever, or can be overwritten time after time after time and still retain 100% accuracy, and be archive quality to last 100 times the age of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
How anyone can stay on top of all this, My hats off to them. A major hurdle has been cleared tho...Film has been eliminated. The camera takes a digital image and that goes right to storage. No need to lose information in the scanning the film into a digital form. No more lost film at the processors, no more yellow slides, no more fight over Kodachrome.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Yeah Calvin it's sad to see the 35mm Nikon or Cannon
film cameras going into permanent storage. I keep thinking
I want to shoot a roll of film, or atleast use up the 2-3 unused
rolls of film I have on hand. But I go "what's the point". The
digital cameras are so good these days. Back in the late 60's,
my folks handed down this Brownie Box camera that shot "620"
film. It was the camera my dad took with him to the Korean
War in the early 50's. 12 exposures, B&W film. I have only a few
keeper shots from that camera. Next was a Ziess Icon camera
my mom had that had the pullout bellows. It shot "620" film too.
In the summer of 1971, I used my paper route and lawn mowing
earnings to purchase a 35mm from Ritz Camera, the Zenit-E a
Russian made camera. It had a manual light meter and a F 2.0
lens. For a $60 camera it did pretty good as I used it to take pictures
for my high school yearbook as I was lead photographer on the annual
staff. Took 500-600 train pix with it too. Next camera was a Nikon-F
that some old timer sold me for a $100 bucks. That was a great
camera. I can easly tell looking back through negatives and prints
that they are the best of the best. Unfortunately that camera got
stolen out of my car one night in 1974. Went without a camera for a
few years until I purchased a Canon AE-1. Must have taken a couple
thousand pix with that camera. Still have and it still works great.
Bought Mrs Krink a Chinon 35mm with motordrive and all the bells
and whistles. It's still in good condition but I don't need 2 35mm cameras
these days. Mrs Krink bought our first digital camera, Canon Powershot
SD600. Seemed like a pretty darn good camera at the time but it's
headed to long term storage too. My mom gave me a Sony Cyber-shot
7.2 mega pixel camera that does an amazing job. Fantastic focusing
system. Crystal clear shots of the hair on a bees leg. Another issue these
days is the need to have a print of a picture. We now want to see it on
our computers, it's the way we look at pictures these days. Prints, slides
and negatives all have to be scanned to get them on the computer.
Once on the computer they can be exported to anywhere on the internet.
Times have certainly changed.

Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

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