Dabbling With Video

August 31, 2008 in Leicestershire, Photography

Okay, so I now have a working video camera again. It will come as no surprise then to hear that I’ve finally made my first proper upload to YouTube. However, all is not as it seems. I have an all singing, all dancing, spangly new camcorder and my first YouTube upload is a slideshow of [...]

AVCHD on a Mac

August 20, 2008 in Computing, Mac, Photography

I have recently replaced a totally knackered 10 year old Canon MiniDV camcorder with a Panasonic HDC-SD9. It’s a great little camera and I’m happy at the idea of waving bye-bye to tape. I loath tape. Having to wind through it and always having the possibility of a tape chewing incident. The HDC-SD9 records high [...]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

August 2, 2008 in Personal

We’re just back from a week in North Wales. And no, we didn’t stay in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, but we were just the other side of the Menai Straits in a lovely cottage near Llanllechid.
I mention Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch simply because of my embarrassment at not being able to get my tongue around the Welsh language at all. When [...]