Having failed to get myself out on the streets at Songkran with my new waterproof camera, I find myself standing in the sea last week at a (for me) ridiculously early hour. The purpose of my semi-immersion is to capture some footage of Craig catching small waves on a SUP.
He proved that you don’t need big swell to have surfing fun, I proved that my little camera takes really good quality video, even if my cinematography skills need some work. While I was sitting with my “Final Cut Express for complete idiots” book, trying to work out how to turn the video into something useful, Craig had cranked out this neat little YouTube video:
Compressed for YouTube, the video is a little jerky and degraded; but full size, the video is a crisp and smooth 1280x720 of HD goodness. Not bad for a camera you can stick in your pocket and take anywhere.
Of course, with a bigger camera and bigger waves, you could produce something like this: http://www.isup.asia/index.php/tahiti.html
Most impressed with this baby camera and looking forward to some wind so I can strap it to various points on a windsurfer.