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Originally posted by Aelita
Originally posted by nhufohunter
Originally posted by Aelita
I'm sorry but not much can be seen in the video. If I just saw it on the Internet, I'd write it off as a lo-tech hoax or a low flying chopper (no offense to the posters here).
I should be able to produce such video with my camcoder and the blinker of the kind the cyclists use. When I have time.
LOL, Good Luck! How are you going to make it fly across the sky?
[edit on 5-4-2005 by nhufohunter]
I was thinking of a fishing rod I have in my basement. Or I can string a line and slide a blinker on it
Originally posted by nhufohunter
Originally posted by Aelita
Originally posted by nhufohunter
Originally posted by Aelita
I'm sorry but not much can be seen in the video. If I just saw it on the Internet, I'd write it off as a lo-tech hoax or a low flying chopper (no offense to the posters here).
I should be able to produce such video with my camcoder and the blinker of the kind the cyclists use. When I have time.
LOL, Good Luck! How are you going to make it fly across the sky?
[edit on 5-4-2005 by nhufohunter]
I was thinking of a fishing rod I have in my basement. Or I can string a line and slide a blinker on it
Dont forget to get a shot of the moon as it comes out from behind trees that it flew behind for several minutes and the tops which where 300 ft away.
And don't forget to zoom out at the end to show the housed that it flew behind, all of which is in the entire video
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Originally posted by michael_vts
Thanks for sharing the videos mate
Originally posted by CmptrN3rd5
Sorry. Its a small metalic disk that some scientist guys built that propels itself off of hot air. I saw the show on TV a while back. I think it heats up the air underneath it or electrifies it so much that it "pops" and causes the disk to move upwards while making a flash underneath it where the air exploded. Thats all I got for ya.
Originally posted by jritzmann
Great that youre tryin to get these things on tape, if I can offer a few suggestions:
Brace up against anything you can to steady the cam. You have to keep that to a minimum (shakes)
You have an inordinate amount of ahking because yorue zooming. Dont zoom. Ever. Not unless it's a structured object that you dont have to strain to see. Even then, keep it to a minmum.
You are not going to get any good footage on lights in the sky. The camera does not see what you see,zooming only confuses the auto focus, or throws the light out of focus.
Many, many times I get footage into a computer for analysis, and it's useless because of the zoom, and adequate bracing. While your pieces are interesting, I'd not touch them in trying to qualify them or enhance them...they're just not capturing enough information.
If you knew how many times someone brings me footage that is a light in the sky, and they zoom all in on it, til its a round flare...then they say "look it's disc shaped!" My reply is usually "please kill me now."
Try those suggestions, and your shake will drastically improve, and you might be even able to asertain a speed.
Jeff@Hypergraphics Imaging, Baltimore
Originally posted by nhufohunter
LOL, Good Luck! How are you going to make it fly across the sky?
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obviously didn't watch both videos
Originally posted by nhufohunter
Originally posted by jritzmann
Great that youre tryin to get these things on tape, if I can offer a few suggestions:
Brace up against anything you can to steady the cam. You have to keep that to a minimum (shakes)
You have an inordinate amount of ahking because yorue zooming. Dont zoom. Ever. Not unless it's a structured object that you dont have to strain to see. Even then, keep it to a minmum.
You are not going to get any good footage on lights in the sky. The camera does not see what you see,zooming only confuses the auto focus, or throws the light out of focus.
Many, many times I get footage into a computer for analysis, and it's useless because of the zoom, and adequate bracing. While your pieces are interesting, I'd not touch them in trying to qualify them or enhance them...they're just not capturing enough information.
If you knew how many times someone brings me footage that is a light in the sky, and they zoom all in on it, til its a round flare...then they say "look it's disc shaped!" My reply is usually "please kill me now."
Try those suggestions, and your shake will drastically improve, and you might be even able to asertain a speed.
Jeff@Hypergraphics Imaging, Baltimore
I've got a monopod now which has improved the stabelizaton, I've already talked more about this on several different threads.
On the other side I don't use auto focus as you are right, it effects the picture, that is why I set the focus to open, so everything you see is in perfect focus, no autofucus, no blur, and I try not to zoom past 20x optical so there is no digital zoom either.
What you see in the footage is what I and the witnesses when possible saw, exactly exept for the shake and motion blur which is inevitible.