Tuesday January 23, 2018 Jenner CA. Getting in a yak while I can With a break in the rain today, I thought I better get on down to Jenner for a yak. The sun was out and the wind was … Continue reading →
Friday, Saturday June 9, 10, 2017 Guerneville CA. All I could do was go to bed Yesterday all I could do when I got home from kayaking Monte Rio was go to bed, so I did, early. Paddling below Monte … Continue reading →
Saturday January 14, 2017 Jenner CA. Sunny day paddling around Jenner I arrived at Jenner to sun and low wind so it looked like it was going to be a nice day. I put the boat in the water and … Continue reading →
Thursday May 19, 2016 Monte Rio CA. Looks like it’s going to be windy The weather guys said it was going to be windy down at Jenner today, but I thought I’d drive down and take a look for myself … Continue reading →
Tuesday October 20, 2015 Jenner CA. I put my boat in at Jenner this morning and paddled across to Penny Island and headed down along it’s side towards the closed river’s mouth area. Paddling down along Penny Island. Near … 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.
