Tuesday November 13, 2018 Jenner CA. Off to yak for the day I’ve been working too hard so the best way to ensure I take it easy is to drive on down to Jenner to kayak for the day. I … Continue reading →
Thursday November 10, 2016 Jenner CA. Sunny and no wind when I put in The wind was down and the sun was out as I put my boat in the water this morning. Looking down towards the ocean, I could … Continue reading →
Thursday October 20, 2016 Jenner CA. The water level was up in the estuary I noticed a couple things right away this morning as I pulled into Jenner to kayak for the day. I noticed the estuary’s water level was … Continue reading →
Tuesday July 12, 2016 Guerneville CA. Parts for the Chevy 350 V8 Today, the plan was to go to Santa Rosa and get all the parts and stuff I need to install my new V8 engine in my 1967 Chevy … Continue reading →
Tuesday June 28, 2016 Jenner CA. I posted two blogs today, this one and the one below this one. River’s mouth has been breeched It looked like it was going to be a warm day so I was off to … 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.
