Two Riders, "Lost in Time & Lost in Space"?
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Having to travel weekly to San Diego, uuuugh,
but there is something to be said for no razor
sharp rocks, no cacti and cooler temps
Some more video from this past thurs.
Somewhere in San Diego. Riders
are Shaun Evans and Tim Schneider
Shot with a Kodak v1273 HD Digicam
and put together using iMovie 6
Followed specific encoding guidelines
for YouTube encoding and it still came
out like crud.. oh well, if you have the
time/patience to pull the blip.tv .mp4 file
(quicktime player req'd) the quality is
so much better and worth it.
Low Res YouTube Version:
Med Red Flash Version (blip.tv)
Higher Res Version:
Click to play
Showing posts with label Cycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cycling. Show all posts
May 02, 2008
April 26, 2008
Kodak V1273 Digital Camera Review
This new camera from Kodak, the V1273) was announced at CES 2008 in Jan.
It just started showing up in stores, the past month or so. What intrigued me about the camera was primarily, it's ability to shoot HD video and wide format photos. 3 of the 5 TV's in our house are now 16:9 format and can deal with the various HD resolutions, so why not? Also, if you're a Macintosh fan, this camera saves its video in Quicktime mpeg-4 format. This helps enable you to pull it right into iMovie, FCE and FCP or QuicktimePro very easily.
Heres a sample from the kids soccer and basketball games today:
While I can say I'm still a big fan of Canon Digital Elph cameras, this compact unit from Kodak and the forthcoming Panasonic Lumix FX500 have some serious features to consider.
Touch screen LCD is cool, very similar to say, an iPod touch. I'm guessing it will burn through the battery quickly and it is a bit harder to see in sunlight. On the flip side, the camera is extremely simple, and super clean. Not many buttons at all!
The "SMART" feature seems to do pretty well outdoors. Rapid fire (for kids sports) is limited to sequences of 3 still photos. (the SD850IS just keeps taking them, till the memory buffers, if you choose a lower megapixel setting whereas the V1273 gives you 3 photos and thats it.
More time playing with the features will help. With 12 Mega Pixels and HD sizes thats a lot of data to push around. Mpeg-4 is also pretty taxing, from a hardware point of view so that might explain some of the sluggishness in the operation of the v1273. On a positive note, this is one of *THE FIRST* digicams that I've used in recent memory, that allows you freedom to zoom in/out while shooting video. Of course, holding this thing steady is extremely difficult, compared to a larger sized Mini-DV or HD Camcorder.
Mind you, it's not that bad really, it's just that I've been pretty spoiled with the Canon which has a bit better image stabilization while shooting video. Consider this video, shot from a road bicycle, while doing 35Mph with a Canon SD850IS :-)
(Re: Canon, I have 4 of them, Powershot G3/G6 and two Digital Elphs s400 and SD850IS)
I *really* like the wider angle lens on the SD850IS, and am looking forward to the debut of the new Panasonic Lumix with the 25mm-125mm effective focal length, Leica lens.
Overall, not a bad entry at a $275 price point. You'll get some great shots and video from this thing in a small, clean package.
Link to the 'pre-review' on Imaging-Resource.com
Here is another mashup of some YouTube video and some
footage from the v1273 done in Final Cut Pro:
March 01, 2008
Some vid from "Goat Camp" a gnarly trail out in west
phoenix (White Tanks) A link to the report is
here
Yikes.. this looks hard!
October 31, 2007
Only a couple of miles to go!
I took this shot just past the Mt. Lemmon Ski area. We did the ride from the bottom to the top (7631 ft. of climbing) on my 43rd birthday. It took me about 4 hours and 20 minutes (that included a couple of 20-30 min rest stops along the way)
Great day for a bike ride. After reaching the top, we changed into our hiking clothes, and shouldered our backpacks, heading down to Rap Rock for 500ft of rockclimbing!
An excellent multi-sport adventure day!
Great day for a bike ride. After reaching the top, we changed into our hiking clothes, and shouldered our backpacks, heading down to Rap Rock for 500ft of rockclimbing!
An excellent multi-sport adventure day!
October 29, 2007
Check these funky recumbents out!
The Recumbentblog
These guys carry the nocom (bike in the video)
The 'nocom' will only set you back $7 G's!
October 28, 2007
Tour de Tempe
Jared, Jaden and I met up with a few others from my work and rode the 2007 Tour de Tempe fun ride.
October 22, 2007
October 03, 2007
September 30, 2007
Click the image above for a larger version:
Here's the email from my friend Greg who had his Forerunner GPS unit going during the ride:
"7631 feet!!! That's 3000 feet more than my closest training ride. Just over 28 miles too. I only took one lap, at Windy Point when we stopped for snack and reload on the water. So it's 3909 feet of climbing to Windy Point, and 3722 from there to the top. Check out the descent we did on the 2nd lap too...1213 feet, most of that would have been that big descent before we climbed up to the ski area. That's where we picked up a bunch of extra climbing."
Thanks for doing the ride with me!
Was great to throw it out there as a goal and see it through.
Time to get the knobbies dusted off and aired up!!
G.
Squeezing the Lemmon
It's in the bag.. 4hours of riding, and 7600+ feet of climbing later we made it. Whew.. bring on Mtb Season!
September 21, 2007
This is Nucking Futz!
Austrian Markus Stoeckl has set a new world record for the fastest speed recorded on a Mountain Bike.
High in the Chilean Alps, Stoeckl piloted his Intense M3 to a eye watering 130.7mph. He shattered the previous record by over 14mph!
September 20, 2007
Go Ghetto Tubeless!
An Inexpensive Tubeless Mountain Bike Tire Conversion
By Mark Steinebach
You can convert virtually any mountain bike tire to tubeless using this system regardless of the tire being new or used. The lighter the tire casing, the easier it will be to mount, but the more it will leak initially and the more frequently you will need to top up the air pressure. Tires with large holes or cuts in the casing should be repaired first or not used.
See the details here:
August 19, 2007
How to slime a presta tube
Here in cactus country, if you have a bike with tubes, slime is a musthave. Schrader valves are easy to slime your self - just pull the valve core and squeeze the stuff in. Of course you can buy pre-slimed presta tubes. Presta valves are a little bit more difficult to slime yourself.
This method is less invasive and really easy to do....
Photos and Details Here:
August 18, 2007
June 13, 2007
June 02, 2007
Shot some goofy vid with the Canon SD800 IS digicam. Edited it up in Final Cut / iMovie then added some soundtrack action! Check it out, watch for the suprise at the end!
-T
Google Earth Map of Hawes Trail
Putting in a plug for the ADEO Fitness companion GPS unit. (see the ad's on the right!) You can now easily download .KML or .GPX data once you upload your file to the Motionlingo/Trak website. Cool stuff here! This is a really neat gadget if you're into outdoor adventuring! Check it out!
Hawes Trail
Tom and I caught an early morning ride on Hawes, in east Mesa AZ. The clouds came in just about the time it really started warming up, which was nice! (kept the temps down for a while) Here's me looking better than later in the ride. Check the next post for a YouTube link where you can see all the carnage! :-)
May 24, 2007
A MTB Video How to
A Helmut Mounted Camcorder Tutorial (expensive)
The 'Pedal Cam' Tutorial
The X Jacket Solution $165
The DIY Option!
One more for another perspective
A 'lipstick' cam mfg
GPS/Topos and MTB 'Oh My'!
This guy travels all over the place mtn. biking... some really good videos!
I like this one (WARNING its a 41Mb mpg file!!!)
March 09, 2007
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