On Sunday, Roz and I decided to get up early and see if we could get some video and photos of the Queen Mary 2 liner on its one-day visit to Cairns.
Video
My video channel on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MikeWarrenVideo
My parents bought me my first movie camera when I was 14, not long after they realised that photography was not just another passing phase. I can't remember the brand, but it was a Russian standard 8mm camera that had to be wound up to operate. Exposure metering was accomplished by a selenium light meter.
This camera had the ability to rewind the film to create a double exposure and I used it to make things appear and disappear. My friend Michael and I started making a SciFi movie that was never finished because we couldn't afford the film, but we did have fun building the sets and models. We started another movie – a spy movie – a couple of years later with a few more friends and a borrowed super 8 camera, and although that project progressed further it suffered the same fate in the end due to lack of budget.
Feb 122012
12 February 2012
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The Panasonic HDC-SD90 (and HDC-TM90) has several good features that interest me for shooting nature. It has a 26x zoom lens with minimal flaring and chromatic aberration. It has manual control, albeit with rather clumsy menu driven control, and it produces quite a good quality HD video picture for a consumer camcorder. But there were [...]
Feb 042012
4 February 2012
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On one of our trips to find interesting things to film for the Barron River Documentary on Saturday morning we came across a crocodile trap that had been set by National Parks to catch a nuisance crocodile on the river.
Feb 022012
2 February 2012
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In 2010 I got together over the Internet with four other YouTube musicians to create a collaboration video. We decided to perform a cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb from the 1979 album The Wall. The plan was to put us all together on the same virtual stage, even though we were all in completely [...]
Dec 052011
5 December 2011
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About 20 years ago my friend Ivan and I thought we’d like to make a documentary about the Barron River, which flows across the Atherton Tablelands and enters the sea just north of Cairns. We didn’t get very far, partly due to the difficulty in finding detailed information on the river. A couple of [...]
28 November 2011
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From the dvxuser.com forum. I’m providing a download location for these manuals, sent to me by Jan at Panasonic until Panasonic can get them up on their site. Here is the dvxuser thread. Panasonic AG-AC130P User Manual Part 1 http://mike-warren.net/vid/AG-AC130P_OpsManual_1.pdf Panasonic AG-AC130P User Manual Part 2 http://mike-warren.net/vid/AG-AC130P_OpsManual_2.pdf Panasonic AG-AC160P/EJ/EN User Manual Part 1 http://mike-warren.net/vid/AG-AC160PEJEN_OpsManual_1.pdf [...]
