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Gordon, flooding seems to be the norm these days doesn't it. I am quite surprised that we don't get it where I live, as we are only a five minute walk from the River Thames here in Grays.

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Albert Ross wrote:

Gordon, flooding seems to be the norm these days doesn't it. I am quite surprised that we don't get it where I live, as we are only a five minute walk from the River Thames here in Grays.

We have always had flooding as we live in a valley where two rivers join, so it's no big deal having lived here for over 70 years. The main problem now is since the Tonbridge flood barrier was installed after the 1968 biggest one in living memory it comes up within 12 hours when they shut it. Now in their wisdom they are putting an extra metre on it this year !
I am a certified scuba diver so I should be able to survive.

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Mighty Monarchs https://vimeo.com/795458911

Close up video is always a challenge.

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What a wonderful video Eric, it may have been very frustrating for you, but for me, it was simply brilliant.
It's funny but we all love to see butterflies, but as to where they come from, the caterpillar we detest them, munching away on our home grown produce, that also is just as frustrating. I don't think I have seen such beautifully coloured caterpillars, the ones we see in the back garden all seem to be green with no noticeable markings at all.

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Thanks Albert.   I'm reasonably certain from my research for my narration that Monarchs don't appear in Europe.  Only in North America, Australia and NZ.

No chance of the Monarch butterflies eating our vegetable gardens.  They only eat the Swan Plant which is poisonous to us.

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I really enjoyed your video Eric and can imagine your frustration as you tried to time the emergence. Very nice closeup work.

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ericlnz wrote:

Majestic Monarchs https://vimeo.com/795458911

Close up video is always a challenge.

Nice work Eric .. I enjoyed it despite the failure to get the emerging Monarch .. thanks for posting .. We have a milkweed plant on our patio.  It attracts Monarchs every year.  We've seen the caterpillars, and even a few chrysalis .. but have never seen the butterfly emerge.  I guess it does happen very fast.  Monarchs are so amazing when it comes to finding their one and only food source.

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ericlnz wrote:

Mighty Monarchs https://vimeo.com/795458911

Close up video is always a challenge.

I enjoyed that Eric, really well filmed and sorry that you missed the great event.  It's a different concept waiting for ages for something to happen and I get too impatient, mostly I get the camera all secured/exposed/focused and suddenly a gale force ten suddenly appears on cue !
Close up work is not the easiest to do outside and mostly the professionals tend to have a mock up in the studio with perfect lighting etc so I also admire your video from the technical side.
Obviously we won't be having caterpillars and butterflies for some while over this side so the only things worth filming close up at the moment are the crocuses and snowdrops on the lawn that have started to grow in the last week.
On a technical note did you just use the zoom lens or did you use any close up lenses on the filter ring ? I have tried both over the years but can never decide what is best.   


https://i.postimg.cc/4nH8nyTC/Lawn-c.jpg

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Thanks Gordon.   My Canon AVCHD camera has a 10X zoom and for the close closeups I screwed a 2 dioptre closeup lens on the front.  It's a Hoya which I've had for years from my still photography days.  It enables me to focus between 25 - 50 cm away on full zoom. I don't have full zoom macro focus like I have on my older Panasonic SD tape camera.

What my Canon does have, which several of my friends don't have with their 4K Panasonics, is remote operation, unless they have a compliant mobile phone that can be used to control their cameras!

My Canon wireless remote works basic functions, including zooming, and works off the screen.  You just need to point it at the screen. Some of my shots were taken from an uncomfortable position so after setting up I'd back out, stand up, and control the camera in comfort.

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What my Canon does have, which several of my friends don't have with their 4K Panasonics, is remote operation, unless they have a compliant mobile phone that can be used to control their cameras!

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Yes I have the ability to control the Panasonic from my phone that is a bonus, especially the zoom that is super smooth when on a decent tripod. I to have an old close up lens set left over from from my stills days that happen to be the same diameter for the Panasonic but too small for the Sony, OK I can use them on it but I don't see the point in cropping in post. Something else that I picked up years ago that I still use, is a clockwork tripod mount panning device that is brilliant that will revolve a full 360 deg.
I never throw anything away much to Sue's dismay !

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Personally I consider having to control your camera using your phone ridiculous and in cramped situations difficult.   I'm amazed Panasonic don't provide a proper means of remote control.

Also I gather it has to be a recent phone model and possibly only an iPhone model.  My old Android wouldn't work with a camera.

Yes I've a box of closeup lenses and filters from days passed.  You never know when they might be useful.

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ericlnz wrote:

Personally I consider having to control your camera using your phone ridiculous and in cramped situations difficult.   I'm amazed Panasonic don't provide a proper means of remote control.

Eric I disagree as it's very easy to use, I use my Samsung phone that I bought on eBay for £25 and the App cost nothing. You can see what you are filming on a bigger screen and start/stop/ zoom/replay and control other things on the camera while sitting in a chair having a coffee or a beer. I need a bit of comfort in my dotage so I don't think that is ridiculous ?
Both of my old SD900 Panasonics have a remote but they have limited controls and no screen so you have to be  close to the camera to see what's going on. They stopped making them probably because they realized that they would have to make a remote with a screen and were on a hiding to nothing, as a phone (that most of us have) has got it already to go.

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Thanks Gordon.  I'll share your comments with my 4k Panasonic friends.  To my knowledge none of them have tried using a phone.

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Just a bit of fun, I actually wanted it to last longer but the battery went flat !   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL7LE65OwxE

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Very good Gordon, all you need to do now is to replicate the effect on another eight or 9 flowers, stitch it all together, add a narration and you will have something a certain D. Attenborough would be proud of!!

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Albert Ross wrote:

Very good Gordon, all you need to do now is to replicate the effect on another eight or 9 flowers, stitch it all together, add a narration and you will have something a certain D. Attenborough would be proud of!!

I was just giving it a try as these ones are out of the wind and possible rain and I can leave the camera there for hours. This could have been better as I wanted to leave it running for another hour or so to get all the flowers fully open, however as I  said the battery went flat !!! If I do it again I will use my external power pack.

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This is the one of the good things about the Panasonic in that you can charge it or run it with a cheap 5v phone  power pack.
https://i.postimg.cc/4mf5W9FM/Screenshot-2001.png

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In the 1960's I did an Old Time Music Hall in which I did an impersonation of the old artist Gus Elen singing "it's a great big shame",  a while ago I attempted to lip sync the old Audio tapes of that show to an old film of Gus Elen, I nearly got it right

https://youtu.be/uhBFX0mdD6E

PS Alan Clark was my Stage Name

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Another attempt at lip sync with cine film and Audio tape,  a bit of 8mm film I took in our garden in the 1970's and had an Audio tape recorder running, never did do anything with it then, came across the tape a while ago and the film, with playing around with the film speed managed to get it together.

It's a bit noisy as we were on a hill under the flight path from Luton Airport

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/797642938

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Alan Hodkinson wrote:

Another attempt at lip sync with cine film and Audio tape,  a bit of 8mm film I took in our garden in the 1970's and had an Audio tape recorder running, never did do anything with it then, came across the tape a while ago and the film, with playing around with the film speed managed to get it together.

It's a bit noisy as we were on a hill under the flight path from Luton Airport

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/797642938

Hi Alan thanks for joining in, I used to sync a lot of my 8mm & S8 films up all those years ago, and I did then go on to buy a S8 sound camera that I used until I went to the first actual "video" with all the clumsy heavy equipment back in the day. The latest generation of camcorders and editing equipment that we have now are so good that it is quite possible to make a decent film (in broadcast quality) that people would go and actually watch, without being pressganged into the "Baby On The Lawn" epics that a lot of people made (but some still do) !!
Now of course a humble mobile phone "can now produce" amazing footage.

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GStree wrote:
Alan Hodkinson wrote:

Another attempt at lip sync with cine film and Audio tape,  a bit of 8mm film I took in our garden in the 1970's and had an Audio tape recorder running, never did do anything with it then, came across the tape a while ago and the film, with playing around with the film speed managed to get it together.

It's a bit noisy as we were on a hill under the flight path from Luton Airport

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/797642938

Hi Alan thanks for joining in, I used to sync a lot of my 8mm & S8 films up all those years ago, and I did then go on to buy a S8 sound camera that I used until I went to the first actual "video" with all the clumsy heavy equipment back in the day. The latest generation of camcorders and editing equipment that we have now are so good that it is quite possible to make a decent film (in broadcast quality) that people would go and actually watch, without being pressganged into the "Baby On The Lawn" epics that a lot of people made (but some still do) !!
Now of course a humble mobile phone "can now produce" amazing footage.


Hi Gordon, Yes, how things have moved on over the years, it's so easy now with digital editing in making videos, I bought my first video camera at the end of the 70's, when I tried editing it was just crash editing between 2 VHS machines, by the mid 80's I was buying editing machines, things were getting better.

These are pictures of some of my analogue editing equipment about 1990
https://i.postimg.cc/rdRTwDGc/Analogue-editing.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/PL7szjHt/Analogue-titler.jpg

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Not really a gadget person, I operate with just a camcorder, no extra lens', but I do have a spare battery about my person when going out into the field, so to speak. The spare battery came in useful last Monday when we visited Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire.

Hope you enjoy the five minute video https://youtu.be/UkPc-ON4BSA

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Alan Hodkinson wrote:

In the 1960's I did an Old Time Music Hall in which I did an impersonation of the old artist Gus Elen singing "it's a great big shame",  a while ago I attempted to lip sync the old Audio tapes of that show to an old film of Gus Elen, I nearly got it right

https://youtu.be/uhBFX0mdD6E

PS Alan Clark was my Stage Name

It really needs subtitles as I could only understand very little of what was being said, and I grew up in London.

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Albert Ross wrote:

Not really a gadget person, I operate with just a camcorder, no extra lens', but I do have a spare battery about my person when going out into the field, so to speak. The spare battery came in useful last Monday when we visited Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire.

Hope you enjoy the five minute video https://youtu.be/UkPc-ON4BSA

Thanks Albert.  Nice looking weather.  Have you taken us there before?  Your pans appear to be getting smoother.  Some shots have a white wall or building in the background.  What's that?

I thought of you this morning when the gadget that is an important part of life nowadays (my mobile phone) blared out with a loud noise - Presidential Alert. We don't actually have a President.  Anyway it was another warning on Cyclone Gabrielle which is bearing down on us and already causing problems in Northland.

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I had a 25 year gap in movie making.  From making 8mm film movies from 1967 to 1980 and then picking up again in 2006 with digital SD then HD.  I missed out on the analogue tape days.  I haven't, as yet, moved up to 4K and probably never will as my current 1080 camera should last me.

Here's a 2008 SD video.  My attempt at a fantasy movie.   I posted it years ago on the old Serif forum.  "King of the Jungle" https://vimeo.com/97633127