I sold a video camera and wanted to replace it with a stills camera that does video for the smaller size - handy for mounting in cars and planes etc. Chose the Fuji X10 and it's an awesome little thing. This is the first shot out of the box.
My folks came to visit for a couple of days from north Wales, and we did the tourist thing in Oxford. I haven't shot any stills in such a long time, I asked Stef if I could borrow his old hopalong Canon 1D (yes - all of 4 MP!) and naturally he said yes dad as long as you buy me a car. Naturally. I took my venerable Pentax A*85mm 1.4 and shot a couple of dozen frames. These are the ones I liked. A kissing couple couple down busy Cornmarket, a pair of film students down same, and street views down St Aldate's towards Christ Church College and Ship Street. Cheers.
Conwy (pronounced 'Conway') is a walled town in north Wales with a mighty castle protecting it from modern foreign invaders (e.g. the English! Although it was built by Edward I to keep the Welsh in line). A popular tourist trap in summer, off season it is a pleasant enough place with a good Italian restaurant, and, being only 15 minutes from my parents' house, convenient to get to. We piled into my dad's Japanese thing (thinks it's a Land Rover but fails miserably) and ascended the Great Orme and then descended on Conwy for a walk next to the river before dinner. It was blowing a real autumnal gale with showers so video was difficult. Stef (of course!) had no such issues with stills and here's a few of his offerings bolted onto a few of mine. All content ©2010 Seeing Eye Productions Ltd and Stefan Cottrell-Tumilowicz.
I was doing some filming a few weeks ago and went for a swim with some girls. I was told to stay out of their way because they wouldn't be able to see me and would crash right through me. I could have used some flippers really, but I had a wetsuit and bouyancy aid on, and did fine. Camera is a JVC HM100 in an Epic housing, downrezzed to SD in a FCP timeline. I flopped them over and it 'does my head in' as my lad Stef says. Pretty cool the first time you see it. I wish I was that skinny again! Video and audio ©2010 Seeing Eye Productions Ltd.
This'll be the first posting then on my Posterous blog. Pity it couldn't
be longer. Will be posting video so stay tuned...