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Originally posted by SoulOrb
Originally posted by DGFenrir
Isn't there an airport in the direction you were filming?
Yes there was in fact, it was about 30 KM in the distance. Oh my, maybe I saw a plane, do you suppose? I might take me a ride on one of those fan fangled new planes some day.
Originally posted by TheJuice902
SoulOrb, I am a new member so i cannot message people till i get some more posts. Message me your email. I am very interested too see this with my own eyes, I am not calling you a liar. I just need to come look myself before I take this claim seriously. I am in Halifax. I look forward to hearing from you.
-The Juice
Originally posted by DGFenrir
Yes you could have. The red and green lights aren't always visible. Especially if viewed from behind.
Originally posted by pop_science
It's nice that you know OP and trust him.
Originally posted by SoulOrb
The camera was a Sony DCR-HC21, 20 times optical, 700 Digital. Digital was disabled. Camera was set in black and white mode. I switched between Nightshot and normal modes a few times. The ship would be on there earlier but it did not show up well in Nightmode for some reason, and the minute I switched back to normal the auto focus saw the ship and focused in.
This is a $250 camera, nothing special, and believe me the ship was close, just that these cameras are not terrific, and especially on zoom at night with stabilizer, it is hard to keep still on a point without a tripod. The ships are too fast, however I spotted it about 5km away, and would not show up on camera until about 1 km away.
Originally posted by Avionix
I sell video cameras for a living... This camera came out in 2004-05, it runs on Mini-DV tape, its extremly low res (480p) then on top of that your compressing the video even more when uploading to youtube.. Also the "Night Vision/Night Shot/Infared mode" only
Originally posted by SoulOrb
reply to post by Avionix
Hey, I am also curious about the on disk storage. Example, what format are these videos in. Sony has that new format, and I use Linux mostly to grab my video, and the closer I can stay to normal formats the better. I kind of like the look of that Canon, I was looking at it at the store. Is that a good disk format, I literally want to drag and drop it to my computer and open it, however I do have a virtualbox container with windows vm install that I can import it with if I have to on my Linux box, but I am curious.
Originally posted by Avionix
ps. The canons have the best processing chip (Digic DV3)
[edit on 23-5-2009 by Avionix]
Originally posted by qonone
I wish i was in Halifax. Would have loved to go out with you to your site one night. I have had my experience but i am too scared i "ask" the wrong ones to pop around
Great video, thanks indeed.
Originally posted by bonsaisert
still to much doubt in me but im working on it Keep up the good work my friend and good luck on your next trip.