hey guys, i just bought a new camera today and thought i'd chime in to see what everyone thinks of it.

its a Sony DSC - S60, set me back 300 bucks but it hink it was worth it.

i'll have pics with it later, gotta go take some now!!!!

 

Hey Rick,

That's cool, not familiar with that digital still camera---can't wait to see pix!

Btw, your white wheels need cleaning in your sig pic!!

 

hey, at least mine isn't on a website thats seem by millions of people in one day!

 

hmm...they wont upload....too big perhaps?

 

 

Pic 2- Turn off the auto flash.
I like this pic. The foilage really sets of the chili red.
Try a shot with the windows up to see if it makes a difference.
Using your image editing software, try and up the contrast a bit. Sometimes that'll bring out the colors.

Check your manual about using manual operations. Oftentimes manually overriding your exposure program will deliver better results. I myself am fond of underexposing a bit just to make colors more vivid. This sacrifices detail however. All depends on your taste.

-juan

 

That's my preference as well.

 

ok, well i got a video now, and some better pictures, i'll work on editing the video today and geting a video up.

i heard that i need to compress the video to put it up here, how does one compress a clip?

 

Not sure about the compression side of things, but you can only upload files to you NAM gallery up to 6 MB each.

 

What he's referring to is that if you shoot video in the DV format, you get compressed footage that's optimized for displaying on TV, but not for the web. At 3.5MB/sec or 25Mbit/sec, every hour of video will consume about 12GB.

So in order to make it viewable on the net, you need to resize the image- often 1/4 of the size to reduce by 1/4, and change to a web friendly codec. On the PC, this is either Windows Media or Quicktime. For the Mac, it's pretty much Quicktime, although MPEG is ok for both platforms since the Quicktime player will playback MPEG files as well.

When converting your video aka transcoding to these codecs, you are losing data to save space. It becomes a balance of how much quality you can tolerate to lose in order to make it downloadable. In general a 500kb/sec datarate is ok for DSL/Cable users and the quality will look pretty good at 1/4 resolution.

Just remember as DiD pointed out, you only have 6MB of space allocated, so if you're using 500kb/sec (then in 2 seconds, you will have consumed 1 MB)--so at most you can store 10 seconds of video at that rate.

Richard

 

yay, new pics, will post video later.

 

can someone help me out with this?

the video i took today is sideays as my camera mounts sideways to the windshield.

is there any way to flip the image 90 degrees so i dont have to twist my head to look at it????

 

The easy, cheap, no cost way is to reshoot it correctly!!!!

Otherwise use a video editing app to rotate the footage. I use Sony's Vegas video editing software, but Adobe Premiere can do this as well. If you have access to an effects compositing app like Adobe After Effects, this is also easily done.

Any way you choose though will be a compromise. You will lose quality, will take time to render, and in the end, may prove to have been much simpler to simply reshoot it.

Richard

 

bah!

i think i'll just reshoot

it looks cool sideways tho!

 

well, now i have a project for tomarrow at least lol

 

Would you like me to assign some "other" homework as well??

 

haha dont push it!!!

i already have to put in new taillights too!!!

 

yay, more new pics