Wednesday July 5, 2017 Jenner CA. Starting the day with a paddle Seemed like a good day to kayak so I headed off to Jenner just before noon and put the boat in the water. Once the car was parked … Continue reading →
Thursday November 12, 2015 Jenner CA. Bad start on the day The phone rang this morning before I got it going. I answered it, which I don’t normally do before I get booted up. It was my dentist. Unfortunately, she … Continue reading →
Tuesday April 7, 2015 Jenner CA. The weather prediction was for thunder storms It rained hard last night, but it had stopped by the time I got up this morning, so I looked at the weather report and it said … Continue reading →
Friday March 27, 2015 Jenner CA. Catching the fishing cormorants I could see Jenner had some high fog as I drove to the launch ramp today and put my boat in the water. I could also see a large group … Continue reading →
Wednesday March 25, 2015 Jenner CA. The sun was out as I got it going this morning and it looked like it was going to be a nice day. Cormorants on the hunt As I drove into Jenner this morning, … Continue reading →
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
