Re: FS Friday: Minolta film scanner

On Jan 21, 2018, at 1:54 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > To use a FireWire scanner on my up-to-date computer hardware I just > bought an IEE1394 card and plugged it in. Good to go! I put such a card in my old (really old) Windows PC. Worked really well. I tried Vuescan

Re: another movie question

On 20/1/18, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >downloaded the program and it playtys fine on it and quick time. Maybe >some sort of incompatability with iMovie maybe.?? iMovie is a very simple video editing app - it isn't capable of converting from different video codecs* for editing.

Re: another movie question

downloaded the program and it playtys fine on it and quick time. Maybe some sort of incompatability with iMovie maybe.?? Dave On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 1:44 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > forh=got to add, they play fine on the phone and if i download them > and play in quick

Re: another movie question

forh=got to add, they play fine on the phone and if i download them and play in quick time they are fine there to. Its the mp4 extension. On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 1:42 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > thanks Steve, > > I have downloaded short film clips from the Samsung phone

Re: Video cameras

On 20/1/18, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: >Here's a link: > > >Notice the file type it puts out - either MP4 or native MOV files - >instantly viewable and editable. I still have some genuine HM100 camera files -

Re: another movie question

thanks Steve, I have downloaded short film clips from the Samsung phone before and they seemed to have been ok. I do get problems sometimes when uploading from the camera to messenger, sometimes the video is turned 90 left and squashed. Not sure whats that about Dave On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at

Re: Video cameras

On 19/1/18, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >Just looking for recommendations on small handheld video camera's. I not >happy how my K5 does video's and am planning a trip to Canada's east coast >this summer. The thing about video is this. There are still cameras that have video

Re: Video cameras

On 20/1/18, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >Limited useasge but so far the exposure is all over the place during >filming and if i do a zoom in or out the focus does not follwo like a >real video camera would i have to do it manually unless i'm not doing >it right. Interesting.

Re: another movie question

On 20/1/18, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >I dont have a lot of iMovie experience but the last 2-3 videos from my >Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime phone imported into iMobvie come up as >green screens when i hover my mouse arrow of them. When i play the >movie it gives my sound but just

OT - Kidde fire extinguishers recall

I suspect quite a few PDMLers might have fire extinguishers in their houses, at least in the US and Canada. I just discovered that the most frequent/popular brand, Kidde has a massive recall for their fire distinguishers made in the past 12 years. If yours is affected, you can get it

another movie question

I dont have a lot of iMovie experience but the last 2-3 videos from my Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime phone imported into iMobvie come up as green screens when i hover my mouse arrow of them. When i play the movie it gives my sound but just the green screens. I can see pictures in the thumbnails until

Re: FS Friday: Minolta film scanner

On 1/19/2018 20:18, Mark Roberts wrote: It's a Minolta Scan Dual IV in excellent condition with box & packing. 3200dpi, USB connection Includes carriers for 35mm slides and negatives Also, all software & drivers... which unfortunately won't work with modern operating systems (at least in the

Re: FS Friday: Minolta film scanner

If I remember correctly, with a USB scanner Viewscan required that you have a working USB driver for the scanner.  That's usually why the "native" scanning software fails. The driver model was changed by Microsoft several times from Win2000, to WinXP and Vista and support for the old model

Re: PESO: Spider Family

Yeah, but where's the fun in that? On 1/19/2018 20:21, Igor PDML-StR wrote: John, Daddy Google helped confirming that it's a myth. See, e.g. here a very nice discussion: http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html Cheers, Igor John Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:01:57 -0800 wrote: I read

Re: Video cameras

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 19/1/18, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Just looking for recommendations on small handheld video camera's. I not >>happy how my K5 does video's and am planning a trip to Canada's east coast >>this

Re: FS Friday: Minolta film scanner

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 07:54:23 -0500 Mark Roberts wrote: > >To use a FireWire scanner on my up-to-date computer hardware I just >bought an IEE1394 card and plugged it in. Good to go! Also, for Mac users, you can still get Firewire connectivity (using Thunderbold ports) either as a seperate

Re: Video cameras

On 19/1/18, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >Just looking for recommendations on small handheld video camera's. I not >happy how my K5 does video's and am planning a trip to Canada's east coast >this summer. Anyone have any comments on the smaller RCA or Canon cameras. Hi Dave When

Re: FS Friday: Minolta film scanner

David Mann wrote: >On Jan 20, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Also, all software & drivers... which unfortunately won't work with >> modern operating systems (at least in the Microsoft world - don't know >> about Mac). I've been using it with VueScan with

Re: Video cameras

> On 20 January 2018 at 10:15 Bob W-PDML wrote: > > > On 20 Jan 2018, at 09:35, mike wilson > > wrote: > > > iPhone + Filmic Pro + gimbal + mike > > https://nofilmschool.com/2015/07/tangerine-sundance-iphone- >

Re: Video cameras

On 20 Jan 2018, at 09:35, mike wilson > wrote: iPhone + Filmic Pro + gimbal + mike https://nofilmschool.com/2015/07/tangerine-sundance-iphone- 5s-sean-baker-radium-cheung-interview Interesting. I'm delighted to hear that: "The anamorphic

Re: Video cameras

> On 20 January 2018 at 08:49 Bob W-PDML wrote: > > > > > On 20 Jan 2018, at 08:14, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > > > On 19 Jan 2018 18:21, "Bob W-PDML" wrote: > > > > iPhone + Filmic Pro + gimbal + mike > > > >

Re: Video cameras

> On 20 Jan 2018, at 08:14, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2018 18:21, "Bob W-PDML" wrote: > > iPhone + Filmic Pro + gimbal + mike > > https://nofilmschool.com/2015/07/tangerine-sundance-iphone- > 5s-sean-baker-radium-cheung-interview > >

Re: Video cameras

On 19 Jan 2018 18:21, "Bob W-PDML" wrote: iPhone + Filmic Pro + gimbal + mike https://nofilmschool.com/2015/07/tangerine-sundance-iphone- 5s-sean-baker-radium-cheung-interview Interesting. I'm delighted to hear that: "The anamorphic footage had to be de-squeezed in