The Watering Hole

Blackwolfe said:

Any video camera aficionados here?

Since I have numerous grand kids I was thinking that I might get a video camera to record for posterity some of their actions and family gatherings and events. Might also use it for my own adventures and perhaps documenting projects, bike maintenance and projects, gun stuff, etc. I have no experience with video cameras or video editing.

Any suggestions for this technologically challenged Luddite for a inexpensive, good, simple, easy to use video camera and video editing equipment? Probably shouldn't use the word inexpensive. I don't need a fancy video camera with lots of fancy special effects and such.

I initially thought Go Pro, but am not so sure. Seems like a lot of Go Pro users have complaints of sudden shut down due to over heating.

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I just use my DSLR’s or an iPhone either so a great job. For point and shoot cameras with video capability Samsung was ahead of the game a few years ago with great quality and very high frame rates.
I have an old Canon point and shoot that has 60fps frame rate that I was able to stop an arrow with using kinovea software ten to fifteen years ago. Free software with amazing capabilities for editing and stop action.

Retrieved a few tons of washout from the other drive, and filled the ruts from two years of being put off.
The drive is on the far end of the lot we picked up beside us about 11 years ago. We bought it, tore down a red tagged double wide, and filled in the basement with the sand mound we had tore out. At the time I put a slate base across the back of the lot and continued the drive to cross over and connect with the back of the drive at the house. Sorta like a drive through with no samich at the other end.

While I was bouncing my bones in the little yellow box I added a few ton of dirt behind my target. It had done a lot of settling since I put it in, and the dirt wasn't much higher than the target backer. It was a little to wet to get the right side were I want it, so I'll let it dry up a little then add a few more buckets. I still have a few tons of top soil that came out of a hoarse show arena to top it of with. It makes for fast weed growth. Think hay seeds and




Hit 80* again today. Way to hot for this time of year, but heading back down to a high 40's high for Wednesday.

Got out this afternoon and did some more mowing. Dust and leaf cloud flying. Had to pick up a bunch of dead wood again. The old oak by the southeast corner of the backyard that died a few years ago dropped another huge piece of limb that I had to cut up with the chainsaw. The old Stihl is starting better with a fresh spark plug in it. The older lawn mower is too. Got up to the mailbox before dark and my new glasses had arrived. Tried ordering from the same place our daughter does, Goggles4U.com; I was a little apprehensive about ordering glasses without trying on the frames beforehand, but apparently I measured correctly, they fit perfectly. Updated prescription on the right eye so upon trying them on I could instantly see better. Whole new glasses cheaper than what I was going to have to pay over what my insurance would on just replacement lenses for my existing frames. These are progressive lenses with scratch resistant and anti-reflection coatings like the old, and I believe that I got the interpupillary distance more accurate than the optometrist did. If I hadn't been an idiot and forgotten to put in the 73 percent off coupon code that my wife had from them in an email they would have been all but free. If I can still do that I may order another pair and add photochromic lenses for sunglasses.

It's raining...

In spite of it all, we made it down to the south park for a trial run with the latest camera.
I like it well enough... (288 pics today)
Few tweaks and I'll be good to go.

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Aaaaaand it's done. And filled with all the crud that used to be there....