Comments on: What (else) I did this weekend

By: Baby Scarletti

Baby Scarletti — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:01:59 +0000

I was wondering Swiss James of the shire whether you could do one of your time lapse videos of Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center - where us Brits show that Cook, Drake and Pinsent weren’t flashes in the pan. It is currently looking like the fishpond at my old school after Bobby Locke poured oil into it’s frogspawned waters. Good to see China using it’s massive military to good use as ‘pool cleaners’.

By: Swiss James

Swiss James — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:08:39 +0000

Colin you give me an idea actually- maybe I’ll walk down Nanijing and record the number of times someone tries to sell me a fake watch or handbag, then remix it into a Euro-techno pumper:

“Hello, watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag? Watchbag?
W-W-W-W-Watchbag?
Watch Watch bag?”

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:58:23 +0000

I always feel sorry for these pitiful ladies at the Nanjing Tong Lu train station who are stranded in Shanghai and asking for help getting home.
Before they return to their villages, maybe I should bring them to a stand up comic for some fun?

By: kristi

kristi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:12:33 +0000

Dude, I know. That’s why I told you.

By: Swiss James

Swiss James — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:41 +0000

oh Thursday’s good though.

By: Swiss James

Swiss James — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:09 +0000

kristi- in July? But I’m back in July! Oh let it work out…..

WoAi- I didn’t realise you’d gone third party, was thinking about the Tamron 11-18mm myself, it goes to f2.8 which is fast for a wide angle.
Like I told you before, I’m only looking to get about a 1/30 exposure time anyway so even if I lose a couple of stops with that lens it should still be fine.
Chromatic aberration should be OK for a moving image, but I wonder what the barrel distortion is like and ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

By: Woaizhongguo

Woaizhongguo — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:55:38 +0000

James - No probs with the wide angle, it’s a Sigma 12-24mm but the maximum aperture is relatively poor, but I guess if the camera is tripod mounted it’ll be ok if you up the ISO a bit and use noise reduction later on. Obviously at such a wide angle there will be chromatic aberration, but this should be within acceptable parameters. How’s Thursday for you?

By: kristi

kristi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:52:32 +0000

Yup. I dig them. I’m a fan of Jesse Elliott (the songwriter), I vaguely remember reading they will be touring England in July.

By: Swiss James

Swiss James — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:47:16 +0000

WoAi- well that was the plan at first, I reckoned that one of us could go and get coffee whilst the other looked after it etc.
But then you suggested standing in frame and I thought that would be good too.

Would be up for doing a night time one during the week if you’re in? Really want to try out your wide angle zoom too. This conversation is far too geeky, we should be having it ‘off line’

kristi- do you know that band? I found them on a random music site, it’s a good album

T- yeah he went first on Saturday. I thought they were both good, Alberstadt had some China stuff that went down really well, as well as the American-specific chuckles.

By: T.

T. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:15:47 +0000

Jesse - the guy with the cocaine eyes - went second. And he was funny.