Tour Scandinavia On Line In 25 Minutes (Video + Stills)

[IntrepBerkExplor]

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The Intrepid Berkeley Explorer

[Ian]

Re: Tour Scandinavia On Line In 25 Minutes (Video + Stills)

Hi David,

Welcome to the new forum - I'm still envying you your globetrotting!

But one thing needs sorting out is your photo attachment. I'm guessing this is a video-still as the quality is quite poor. Do you mainly shoot video and take stills or do you use a stills camera as well?

By the way, is the travel part of your job, are you retired or basically fortunate enough not to need to work any more? I'm quite fascinated.

A friend of mine, called Mark Moxon, has also been fortunate enough to travel widely and in his own time, see: http://www.moxon.net/ - very good site.

I travelled a lot in the Far East as a child and I do travel a lot as part of my job, but I don't get as much time for myself on work trips as I'd like.

Ian

[IntrepBerkExplor]

Re: Tour Scandinavia On Line In 25 Minutes (Video + Stills)

Hello, Ian,

I greatly appreciate your tolerance of my video posts on DPNow. Many other forums treat video as as a dangerous infection.

That attachment of the Nyhavn Canal in Amsterdam was taken as a still using my Sony Digital8 camcorder, which is four years old and at one megapixel. It's the most reliable camcorder I've ever had. If you consider the still unsatisfactory, please delete the photo. In addition I convert individual camcorder digital video frames to the JPEG format. For me, those are digital stills.

I also have a conventional still camera from 1993, but its current function is to take stills for enlargements to decorate my house. I've covered the walls. Many of that camera's negatives were scanned into digital for the earliest photos on my website. That leaves me with three different categories of digital stills, all of which co-exist on the Intrepid Berkeley Explorer site.

But my emphasis has been travel videos for the last 16 years. Always wanting to travel, I was lucky enough to have a job for over two decades that provided vacation time which made these trips possible. I've been retired since 1992, the year I converted all the analog videos to digital, managed to get them streamed over the internet, and learned how to edit the newer films on my computer, while still traveling.

My greatest improvement has been in video editing skills. After my retirement, the last nine films have all been edited using the computer. There are always more places to go, even if it's harder to find new destinations currently.

Dave

[Ian]

Re: Tour Scandinavia On Line In 25 Minutes (Video + Stills)

Ah, no problem, David - I was just wondering. Of course your posts about your latest videos are very welcome.

There may be a way of improving the quality of your stills, especially for web-display.

Ian

[IntrepBerkExplor]

Re: Tour Scandinavia On Line In 25 Minutes (Video + Stills)

Ian,

If there are any tricks I should know about regarding stills, please let me know at [email protected]

Dave