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Whats up!!! Haven't been on here in forever, but was curious tonight to see whats going on.

Most sports photography is done with massive zoom lenses too.. We're just a different breed of sports photographers not always....This picture was taken with a 5D MKII and a 70-200 lens ( at 200mm) during the last Dubai comp. The building is 4+miles away. keyword: "most" this is one of the "most" photos.. but in a different way. I love that shot Bruno! Awesome work.

Winter sports (Skiing, snowboarding) think the guys on Warren Miller's teams. They are right up in there (the ones on the mountain, not the ones filming from the heli)

Most sports photography is done with massive zoom lenses too.. We're just a different breed of sports photographers

I agree, I was expecting a bit more from it. I'm going to get me another 5D MkII instead, now that the prices have come down.

It is discontinued but move fast and get yours from B&H. Canon replaced it with the 8-15mm F4 L lens. All dealers told me the same thing

I just read this : http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/126619568.html and I thought of this thread... Miss you Shannon!

Lew, I think I might be able to hook a sister up. I think I have a brand new one sitting in my "camera accessory" drawer. I am using a full Schumacher setup on my helmet so I don't use the Strobos.. I'll check tonight and shoot you a note!

1100 ft, on my last skydive ever without a pro-dytter (jump 130 or so) I lost altitude awareness, and transitioned from a sit when I saw my friends opening parachutes... I landed, white as a bedsheet, walked up to the dz manager and asked him : do you have any more of those dytters for sale? He smiled and said.. I was going to talk to you, but looking at your face and your reaction you know exactly what you did wrong don't you? Don't ever scare us like that again!

Hey Mike, this is a great topic and reading some of the feedback below this seems to be a really good one to discuss with newer, or even very experienced tandem videographers. I for one have not given this a lot of thought beyond: if I get tangled up with the drogue, I am potentially killing 3 people. For me, if I "miss" the exit, then I am leaving late, really late. This means, once they break the door I just let them go past me and I do more of a peeling exit. I still get their face right before they leave, and the "tandem story" is not lost... they remain in frame, and I keep myself and the tandem pair safe by preventing a drogue entanglement. I've gotten very close to eating a drogue once, on a skyvan exit where the TI did a backflip and threw the drogue as they came around. I made the mistake of putting myself in "the center" of the exit instead of staying a bit off to the side. As you know, flying tandem videos is a very responsible job, and should not be taken lightly.. The porter story above scares the crap out of me, but I applaud the parties involved for staying calm in that situation. Hope to see you around next week Mike, I'll be in Eloy for memorial day weekend.

I used the Sabre2s for a long time as well, and they are very fine parachutes for sure! Specially jumping with cameras. I find it interesting that the Spectre is not working out for you as well.. is the canopy still in good shape / trim? Older lines maybe? I use a Spectre 135 on bigger ways and on all those, there is a "no more than 90" rule and it works perfect for me, but the first couple jumps on the canopy it didn't... for the simple reason that the brake lines were too short (I bought it used) Have the canopies checked out for sure

I don't want to start a completely different discussion, but I think this is one of the biggest misconceptions... a more professional camera does not necessary mean better photos.. Better glass does... Go Canon 15mm like Lew said already

And getting permission from photographers before offering content for download would be nice too..

JP... You've been on my mind a lot lately... I just want to say I miss you..

I second that one!! Good job on the original poster.. never give up!! Looks like you handled the tumble, and back to work!! My worst one was knocking another camera flyer off the camera step a couple years ago :( I rushed out right after him and was a bit too eager to to get into position for MY shot and pushed him off the camera step Lucky for us it was a freefly skydive, so all he had to do was wait for us to come down to him, although even for a freefly jump that takes a while if you have a 10 second head start.

I agree, I don't like the "blown out" flash images. I love it for basic filling in the shadows.. although, sometimes you have to rely on just flash I attached my setup, its an old picture, the still camera is upgraded to the 40D. The other shot is a "sunset photo"

shameless bump!!! Come boogie with us in Byron!

It is Friday now Going slightly mad at work Haiku time it is

This was a very entertaining read to say the least. A lot of good points are being made by a lot of people I respect a LOT. Just wanted to add one small point, we're looking at USPA to change things, I say: revolution. WE are all skydivers, WE are the ones that are jumping with these people that should really get training, or get a talking to right? USPA is at their head quarters, in my case "all the way on the other side of the country" I can complain to my regional director, give him tips on what I think should change at USPA.. but hey.. if USPA implements a new training method, but it's not being taught at the DZs, nothing changes right? You are not going to get that old school badass in a classroom, unless he wants to. You DO get him in there, if he cannot jump that hot shot canopy at your dropzone, and not at the dropzone next door, and not at the one across the country. DZOs are not likely to take action unless a jumper comes up to him and says :hey this dude is sketchy under canopy.. I dont think he should be jumping that. Result: the guy gets a talking to, and is told to jump a different canopy, or "jump somewhere else" If enough DZs and fun jumpers do this, eventually that person might be in a class for "advanced training" Have the DZs ask you for a certificate after that.. and now things will start working, but it all starts with the first questions when you show up at a new DZ: 1. how many jumps do you have? A D license for some is only 200 jumps, for the newer jumpers its 500, but that's still "nothing", so a D license does not make you an "expert canopy pilot" 2. what are you flying? 3. How long have you been flying this etc. Start within and then start pushing it to USPA if the other way around is not working, and change the attitude of how you talk to people. I talked to someone with 75 jumps last week about flying a camera (gopro) I ASKED him to not fly it for a while and have some fun jumping with his buddies, and having someone else film the jump and copy it to his computer if he wanted proof of his jumps. It was a very easy conversation, cause I was not being a DICK to him about it.. I agree, some people do not listen unless you are a dick to them.. but in general I'd like to think people are reasonable and you can have a discussion like this with them.

Here's a shot from the ash dive. Fly free Bob! http://www.iwanvanderschoor.com/blog/2010/09/13/ash-dive-for-robert-whitsitt/

is the data in your php script "unique" to the script? If so, create a unique key in the mysql database, and just insert the data and implement the error handling in the php script instead of checking the database first, and then doing an insert.. that is going to back up fast if you have high volume..

I think we are at the beginning of the next evolution.. 3D today is cool, but I think we're only just starting off. I think we're going to end up being "in" the movies we're watching, with the picture pretty much surrounding us. The tricky thing with skydiving, as boyfalldown indicated already is I think most of it doesn't lend itself very well for 3D. I've seen some 3D base video / proximity flying stuff, and that looked amazing. Because there is a reference (the ground) that is much closer, I think that is what is cool about the effect of 3D. I haven't played with it for that reason.. I don't base jump, and I think the kind of stuff that I am filming doesn't lend itself all that well for 3D, but who am I... I am going to test with it later this year though, I do have some ideas on what could work really well with 3D.. .more to follow later

Pelican case.. check the rig and bring the cameras on board yourself.

Ha ha.. the consumer pays for a professional product, but the photographer gets paid as little... I like your view on this Bill.. and it's so true..

Nope, but an IOU will be exchanged though..