Hey Guys,
I was playing around with KiteCam this am, thought I would share a few pix with you (I know there were a few issues with the set up, I'm still working on it!).
Pretty low tides lately have really exposed those rocks we all kind of know are there but havent really seen before! Not sure if it is good to see them or not 
With the lack of forecast seabreezes, everyone kind of ends up here and it was pretty busy on the water today 
And when the wind died in the ass, everyone walked back up the spit together 
And then sat around waiting and hoping for the wind to change it's mind again. 
Hope you enjoyed the pix!
Nic
hey good shots!!
my mate "Slack" has it sussed with his latest buy for a kite cam !!! i will get him to send a couple of his set up over, Peli was way low as well had to do the walk to get some water deeper than 50 mm
Hi Knickers, great shots and very clear focus. I was there yesterday with Adam Scoffield and we saw your kiterig setup. I have exactly the same with a Pentax W60 and have been able to get a few nice shots but perhaps not as clear as yours.
Would you mind let me know which settings you used if you've got the same cam..
Hi IanMac, when you get the info from your mate I would appreciate the info as well.
I took video in Lancelin 2 days ago and will get it sorted and editted when I get to Sydney on Thu and then post it with the relevant info.
Tks guys. Here are a few of mine from Lancelin last week.
Launch at southern launch pooint @ Lancelin - 22-25 knots
Managed a close-up or two
Making sure fellow kiter didn't need a ride, blown leading edge..
Hey Sir V how do you edit you vid footagei got a mate to lend me his professional power director which is really good but you end up with really big files !! how do you edit yours?? i will get my mate to send through his set up
Mate, lano does go off ! but you were very close to some even better spots
Hey Sir V, thought your shots were about as clear as they get- I am playing with diff cam settings. This run was infinity focus, sports mode. I was meant to be a bit more zoomed in but must have bodged it up as I set it to go.
Gonna keep playing till I get it right.
Sadly I cant do anything about the 5th line Airhead, dont think the rebel will fly so well if I just cut it off
A few of us have decided we prefer stills to movies, the movies only appeal to hard core kiters and give everyone headaches to watch, even when edited and rotated (I dont know how to do this, my mate did it for me!).
Hey Knickers, I got a little better resolution and focus at Melville Waters yesterday on what little wind there was.. eheh
If you are using the W60 try the "Deshaker" (2nd line of settings) instead of Sport. I got a couple of close ups that I am almost satisfied with. I guess the closer zoom you get the more stable the kite has to be to focus properly, zoom rules.
I am still working out the video but I'm with you on that one. Stabilizing is a s***t of a job. Tks for input.
Yesterday's...
Mode: Sports
Sensitivity: ISO 800 Auto
Metering: Multi Segment
Quality: *** (Best)
White Balance: Auto
Zoom: 1.5x
Ozone/FLX32 vs Rebel/Hammer
Hey Slack, looks like we are on a collison course when you look at board directions it might be your turn to take the inside run
Awesome stuff. Have to admit though the angle of the kitecam pic is a bit weird.
You don't normally get a reference point... like the horizon etc(or maybe you can but it looks tricky to get just right)
It seems like you just end up with a whole bunch of photos of the same thing(the kiter)?
My helmet camera does exactly the opposite, i.e. it takes loads of footage of the kite and you don't get a perspective of the kiter.
Best bet i guess is for a photographer sitting in the water with a fancy smancy camera in a water proof case.... if only.
Hey thanks for all suggestions!
More Questions for you .
I found the memory section and ticked zoom, but can you explain how to differentiate optical and digital zoom, and also you say 1-1.5x zoom which is very little? Do you zoom later using photoshop, because they are quite close up photos?
Also, I cant find metering options?
What focus and what pixel setting do you use?
I dont have photoshop etc. just using ACDSee that came with the W60; when you say you adjust levels, what do levels do you mean Airhead?
Also, Slack, how do you get the shots so far behind the 5th line on your rebel- a lot of my pics get the label 'knot head'!
Finally, Meercat, you can get horizon in the pix if you keep the kite really low, but it needs to be barely off the water (my best horizon shots are after I have crashed the kite!).
Nic
Nic,
I use 10MP, an 8Gb card can hold so many photos I figure it's best to go for max resolution.
I think my 5th line is about where yours is. I have the camera mounted about 20cm back from the LE which is as long as the lanyard (attached to the loop on the LE) and as far as I can go before the canopy is stitched to the struct.
Slack
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Hey thanks a lot airhead, do you mind me picking your brains? (just says so if I am a pain ).
(By way of explanation, I am a reforming technophobe; computers and digital photos are a whole new world, I have been a film only buff up till I got the W60.)
I checked the wiki site- does the W60 use optical zoom if you use the zoom button before you take the pic? I get that cropping/zooming in after taking the photo is a form of digital zoom, but not sure about pre-photo zoom.
I will download Picassa overnight- says it will take 1.5 hours (I am on dial up!). Do you mean by resource pig that ACDSee uses a lot of space on my computer, could this explain why the computer keeps telling me I have not enough virtual memory recently (this possibly cooincides with me loading ACDSee)?
