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Re: [OM] Bristol Balloon Fiesta.

Subject: Re: [OM] Bristol Balloon Fiesta.
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:50:19 +0200
Le 18 août 12 à 16:00, Ian Nichols a écrit :

> On 17 August 2012 21:16, philippe.amard <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, very impressive!
>>
>> Well, you might still think about the trick again, your video proves
>> that you'd know where they head to, on take-off at least.
>>
>
> only if I have the same wind info as the pilots - they don't like  
> going
> into cloud any more than light aircraft pilots do, so wouldn't fly  
> if the
> lower layers of air had significant cloud cover.
>

Got it thanks


>
>> What's the set up if I may ask ...
>>
>
> Minolta A1, SLR-sized Gorillapod with a small ball head, Yongnuo  
> MC-36b
> timer/intervalometer set to trigger every 5 or 6 seconds. Auto  
> exposure
> with +1.3 stops compensation for the sky.  Images recorded at  
> 1600x1200
> pixels (gets about 1700 on a 512MB card).  Images resized to 960x720  
> in
> Irfanview before converting to video using magic pic2ani.
>

I had never heard of the gear or software but looks like fun, if you  
can get the process automated ...


Thanks again
Best from Alsace
Philippe

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