I mounted the Canon 7D to the keel today after filming some launches. I filmed at the 720p 60fps so I could do some slow mo on them, but I forgot to set the shutter speed correctly (at 125, not 60 that it was on from filming 1080p), so it’s not as great as it could have been.
It was great air today, pretty smooth. It got a little better later. Early on the majority of those that launched sunk out, but later it became ridge soarable. This never gets old! I had a blast today: my feet being lifted and feeling weightless as I ran off of the mountain and the incredible feeling of having control over a passive machine that can cut through the air and carry my body along with it while responding to my control inputs. Can’t wait to do it again!
The new iMac just came out and I’m thinking of getting the i7 quad-core version and get Final Cut Pro to start learning that, since that seems like it’s the industry standard these days. If you have any thoughts or advice on that please make a comment below.
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I noticed this bus just in time to race it a bit. It only lasted a few seconds before the road peels off to the right, but for that time I was keeping up with the skool bus. It would have been a cool way to catch it if I was late for skool.
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Several pictures put together of Eric climbing out
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The view
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James in his Wills Wing
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Eric grinning about his new glider.
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Eric ready to launch his new WW T2C
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Carl is below me on the ridge and Eric is in front of us just above and to the left of launch a little bit. It was fun cruising around with other people today.
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Sunset Nov 19
Hey Lucas! Great website and your videos are only getting better. A pleasure to watch!
The video that opens when I click on the “Racing a school bus” link is not that, but the “Slow motion hang gliding launches”, which is also great, btw.
Good flying,
Lorenzo.
Hey Lorenzo, Thanks for watching! Yea, I am saving that short clip of following that school bus for another video, but included that still photo in this post. I changed the name of the post to something more accurate. See you in the air!
Lucas
hi lucas,
cool videos !
I noticed that you mounted the C7D upside down.
What program do you use to turn the video around?
Does this affect rendering quality in any way, i.e when combining it with normal position footage.
many thanks &
nice thermals
rob
Hey Rob, Yea, I put it upside down as far back on the keel as I could comfortably go before the camera touches the ground when the glider is just sitting on the ground (so it won’t hit on landing, etc.).
Right now I use Premiere Pro CS4 (thinking of getting a Mac and going to Final Cut Pro), but many video editing software packages have this function. You just tell it rotation – I don’t see any image loss, I think it just remaps the location of each pixel so it shouldn’t distort the image or degrade it.
This is what it looks like in Premiere, you would just change the “0.0” to “180”:
thanks lucas,
this trick simplyfies camera mounting on the flexi a lot 😉
best rob