rec.sport.unicycling archive · Public discussion

Time lapse dropology

Started by Tonymelton · · Last activity · 9 posts · 1,254 views

Thread navigation

Jump through the discussion

Go to the original post, the replies on this page, or the latest preserved contribution.

Thread details

What we know about this thread

Original section
rec.sport.unicycling archive
Published
5 July 2004
Last activity
5 July 2004
Original author
Tonymelton
Posts
9
Discussion status
Public discussion
Total views
1,254
Views / 30 days
0

The navigation and discussion metadata provide context. Posts remain in their original chronological order.

Showing posts 1–9 of 9
Posts remain in their original chronological order.

Text size
  1. Here's two kinda cool sequences of me doing drops in 'time
    lapse photography'
    (gallery.unicyclist.comalbum128). One is a 1.2m
    drop and the other is a 1.7m drop. They're in the style of
    skate/BMX magazine trick sequences. Check them out!

    --Tony

    --
    TonyMelton - Up, up and awaaaay!

    See some photos of the first 'NZ MUni Weekend'
    (gallery.unicyclist.comNZ MUni Weekend 2004)
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    TonyMelton's Profile: unicyclist.com2118
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

  2. Thats awesome! Jeez that 1.7 was huge! both were huge! What
    a good idea.

    So how exactly did you take the pictures? Are they screen
    shots of a video or a nifty camera thing?

    --
    mango - unity - as 1 stand together

    unicyclist.comalbuv16

    "...I speculated that if we all got to know each other, one lawn mower
    would be enough for any neighborhood." -Keith Cash
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    mango's Profile: unicyclist.com3892
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

  3. Nice Tony!

    I did that once using the burst shot on my Digicam. The
    results were similar, but the drop was only about 1 meter.
    It looks cool with the slideshow feature in the gallery:
    tinyurl.com22b4q

    Cheers, Daniel

    --
    daino149 - How's it going, Texas?

    Check out my pics: www.unicyclist.com/gallery/daino
    Sig count: 2
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    daino149's Profile: unicyclist.com933
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

  4. UniBrier got some similar shots of g3orge, Harper, and I
    jumping off a pedestal at St. Edward State Park last
    month. Here's the gallery with the pictures: 'A bunch of
    failures' (gallery.unicyclist.comalbux48). We had
    a bunch of unicycle failures that day and that's the
    reason for the title.

    It's neat to see drops in a series of stop action photos.
    I'm going to make sure that my next digital camera can do a
    high fps burst of photos like that.

    --
    john_childs - Guinness Mojo

    john_childs (at) hotmail (dot) com
    Gallery: '' (unicyclist.comjohn childs)
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    john_childs's Profile: unicyclist.com449
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

  5. john_childs said:

    *UniBrier got some similar shots of g3orge, Harper, and I
    jumping off a pedestal at St. Edward State Park last
    month. *

    So did I, although John's a purist so might have discounted
    them because one is out of sequence. They are here:
    gallery.unicyclist.comalbux49

    I like the series of John because it has both the setup,
    airshot, and compression. On the series of Harper I got
    too much of the setup, only one in the air, and none of
    the landing. My camera is fine...it was all Harper's fault
    for cowering on the pedestal afraid to jump. Someone
    finally pelted him from behind with a filbert, which got
    him into the air.

    --
    tomblackwood - Registered Nurtz

    Tailgate at your own risk.....

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    tomblackwood's Profile: unicyclist.com3762
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

  6. well,theres some proof that the Miyata style lollies are
    plenty strong.nice drop!

    my ankles winced upon seeing that.

    --
    forget_your_life - #3649 plus_your_life

    [image:
    "]http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albums/albup23/bunnyjumping.gif]
    dream one dream many....
    *'R.I.P' (tinyurl.comvr86)*
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    forget_your_life's Profile: unicyclist.com4558
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

  7. john_childs said:

    *I'm going to make sure that my next digital camera can do
    a high fps burst of photos like that. *


    The Casio EX-P600 has three different burst modes. The fast
    one does six shots in about two seconds at full resolution.
    The second one is continuous, somewhere in the 1.5 per
    second range for as long as you want.

    Then there's the super-burst mode, or whatever you want to
    call it. This takes 25 pictures onto a single frame at 1600
    x 1200. It does them all in about 2 seconds. So the
    resolution is pretty low, but the speed is super fast.

    So far I am digging the camera very much. The main
    advantages over our QV-4000s:
    - Tons faster: startup and shutdown in about 2 seconds
    - Smaller & lighter
    - Big LCD, visible in the daytime!
    - Quicker access to most major controls
    - Battery lasts a couple of days
    - Crazy bracketing options
    - super-fast playback

    It does feel a little fragile compared to the QV-4000, and
    my external flash plug managed to unthread itself from its
    mount. Hope I don't have to open the camera to fix that. But
    I'm very much not regretting paying a premium for a tiny
    camera that's very fast and versatile!

    Read more about the camera: tinyurl.com2to4z

    See a sample of the super-burst mode below. I've cut it down
    to half the original size and compressed it. That's my
    nephew Austin, trying to keep up with a different face for
    each shot.

    +-------------------------------------------------------
    ---------+
    | Attachment filename: 25austinfaces.jpg |
    |Download attachment:
    unicyclist.com209447| +-------------------------------------------------------
    ---------+

    --
    johnfoss - Walkin' on the edge

    John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
    "jfoss" at "unicycling.com"
    www.unicycling.com

    "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not
    because they are easy, but because they are hard." -- John F. Kennedy,
    1961
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    johnfoss's Profile: unicyclist.com832
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

  8. I've always liked time lapse stuff

    Awesome drop, very cool!

    --
    digitalattrition - Addicted to Crank (mounts)

    "can you do a wheelie on that?!"
    --Some kid I saw when I was riding
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    digitalattrition's Profile: unicyclist.com6430
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

  9. Yes, those sequences were done with burst mode. Other than
    that I don't know what the fps rate was or how the camera
    was set up, as it wasn't my camera.

    The 1.7m drop is probably one of the biggest drops I've done
    to flat. It's almost my height (1.75m)!

    Jagur - the Miyata bearing holders are OK in the setup I
    have - they've been drilled out to accept a Profile axle
    and feel very solid. They were not so good in their
    previous incarnation paired up with a Suzue hub. They would
    slip side to side off the bearings, so I'd periodically lock-
    tite the bearings into their holders. Not very satisfactory
    for trials.

    --tony

    --
    TonyMelton - Up, up and awaaaay!

    See some photos of the first 'NZ MUni Weekend'
    (gallery.unicyclist.comNZ MUni Weekend 2004)
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    TonyMelton's Profile: unicyclist.com2118
    View this thread: unicyclist.com32399

Active in the last 60 minutes

Active in this thread

0 users · 0 guests ·0 bots ·0 total

No signed-in users are active right now.

No known search crawlers active right now.