It's Not Unusual....

Word on the street is tens of thousands of goomers received a GoPro camera for Christmas: I was one of them. This picture was taken with the wide-angle lens setting. So far it looks like the GoPro takes great outdoor video and pretty good indoor, providing the lighting's good. The jury's still out on the still picture quality, but I'm guessing it's not going to be close to the Nikon D5000. When the lighting's right, however, daytime outdoor video is cinema quality, and you're not likely to go better than that. In fairness to the GoPro folks, these darn things were developed for outdoor video, not indoor still pictures. Since I don't sky dive, mountain climb or ski the Rocky Mountain triple blacks, I'll have to come up with some other uses for this bad boy. Maybe I'll get a chance to video the Duster Man catching the world record flathead below Bagnell Dam (which I'm confident he's going to do) or Klietus as he single handedly sets the controlled burn record in Barry County Missouri (I'm referring to the intentional burn, not unintentional: apparently Tom Jones holds the Missouri State record in the uncontrolled burn category). That gives me an idea: a time delayed brush pile burn. Everyone would of course want to see that. YouTube is chocked full of skydiving video montages, but I've yet to come across a time delayed brush pile burn. I think that might be worthy of a go. I'll keep you posted....

PS. I guess the cat's out of the bag. Tom Jones is "Almost Uncle Tom" and yes, that's the Tom Jones of Engineering fame...not the guy who sang...

It's not unusual to be loved by anyone,
It's not unusual to have fun with anyone,
But when I see you hanging about with anyone,
It's not unusual, it happens every day...and so on