Thunder park - Easter hours

[barty5]

Have just phoned.
they cannot open good friday or easter sunday so pick anyother ride guys.

[theblacksmith]

Have just phoned.
they cannot open good friday or easter sunday so pick anyother ride guys.

Is that due to dodgy councils and resource consents?

[Sammikins]

Stink! Oi if they're open tomorrow im keen.

[CHOPPA]

Spose i could do 4 days in a row.... Give me a call if ya go!

[flyingcr250]

Spose i could do 4 days in a row.... Give me a call if ya go!

had a blast at the sandpit today, uploading some video of it now, think it might be time for a new helmet camera.:angry:

could be keen for thunder tommorrow if its open, otherwise im going to maramarua.

[sxyrx7]

had a blast at the sandpit today, uploading some video of it now, think it might be time for a new helmet camera.:angry:

could be keen for thunder tommorrow if its open, otherwise im going to maramarua.

what helmet cam do you use?

[flyingcr250]

what helmet cam do you use?

i use a VHOLDR it hasnt realy lasted that long. im waiting for the guys at nzhelmetcamz to email me back about a propper system that records to a video camera.

bit of camera action, pictures a bit crap, i think the cameras packing up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SViB7r4KytY

[kezzafish]

cool footage Fly, what's wrong wit the cam. looks pretty decent if ya ask me... i'll buy it off ya if you do end up replacing! I like the tank slapper moment about a quarter way through the clip with the big "wooohoo" gotta love that sand hey, if your tired... your fucked lol.

Had a huge whoop section monent at Tangimoana on the weekend... i had them pinned... 4th gear big wheel lift and was feeling just like chad reed must but the woop section just wouldn't come to an end and i was getting tired as... noticed a big root at the base of a whoop and lifted front over it but rear got all out of shape... came off top of whoop and was flying towards a big branchy pine..."aaaaaaaaah" said kerry and got a mouthfull of nice green pine needles

[cheese]

I got a couple of samples of Helmet cams in China. I'll test them out soon and post some footage.

[flyingcr250]

cool footage Fly, what's wrong wit the cam. looks pretty decent if ya ask me... i'll buy it off ya if you do end up replacing! I like the tank slapper moment about a quarter way through the clip with the big "wooohoo" gotta love that sand hey, if your tired... your fucked lol.

Had a huge whoop section monent at Tangimoana on the weekend... i had them pinned... 4th gear big wheel lift and was feeling just like chad reed must but the woop section just wouldn't come to an end and i was getting tired as... noticed a big root at the base of a whoop and lifted front over it but rear got all out of shape... came off top of whoop and was flying towards a big branchy pine..."aaaaaaaaah" said kerry and got a mouthfull of nice green pine needles

for some reason the picture is going all pixely as you can see in the video. maybe its just my computer lol.
i dont mind the sand wouldnt want to ride it all the time though, its ok for a fun blast.

[oldskool]

for some reason the picture is going all pixely as you can see in the video. maybe its just my computer lol.
i dont mind the sand wouldnt want to ride it all the time though, its ok for a fun blast.
Did any of the footage you took of my son on the convict come out?

[flyingcr250]

Did any of the footage you took of my son on the convict come out?

no the battery must have run out. sorry.:argh:
im planning on getting a propper system so i can take some decent long footage.

[honda_power]

i was looking at this...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=213079888

cheap, prob 2 cheap, and u need a vid camera, but the resilution is good, does wide angle, and doesnt use a crappy quality sd card

[flyingcr250]

i was looking at this...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=213079888

cheap, prob 2 cheap, and u need a vid camera, but the resilution is good, does wide angle, and doesnt use a crappy quality sd card

the one im planning on getting is from http://nzhelmetcamz.co.nz/products/helmet-camera-system.html

its expensive but my mates one works really really well

[honda_power]

the one im planning on getting is from http://nzhelmetcamz.co.nz/products/helmet-camera-system.html

its expensive but my mates one works really really well

yeap yeap, had one back in my film and tv days ay school, was pretty good

[oldskool]

i was looking at this...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=213079888

cheap, prob 2 cheap, and u need a vid camera, but the resilution is good, does wide angle, and doesnt use a crappy quality sd card
I've never bought from an Aussie off Trademe before, are they trustworthy?

Can't help myself but: The SD method of storing video is pretty good, that and being a solid state solution makes it hard to beat when comparing against a fragile video tape system.

The camera specs state 380 line resolution. That's equiv to just above standard VHS quality. Below Super VHS, Below miniDV. Pretty sure modern DVR using SD card storage can deliver similar quality.

[honda_power]

I've never bought from an Aussie off Trademe before, are they trustworthy?

Can't help myself but: The SD method of storing video is pretty good, that and being a solid state solution makes it hard to beat when comparing against a fragile video tape system.

The camera specs state 380 line resolution. That's equiv to just above standard VHS quality. Below Super VHS, Below miniDV. Pretty sure modern DVR using SD card storage can deliver similar quality.

really? i know nothing about it apart from resolution. the one thing i nothiced about the sd cams is that they pixelate under dark or busy conditions... eg going 60ks though a forest all the trees turn to sqares. could just be a crappy camera though. all i know is those atc3k cameras are shit

[flyingcr250]

really? i know nothing about it apart from resolution. the one thing i nothiced about the sd cams is that they pixelate under dark or busy conditions... eg going 60ks though a forest all the trees turn to sqares. could just be a crappy camera though. all i know is those atc3k cameras are shit

think ill be recording to a video camera with a hard drive. sd cards arent too bad if you get a good one.

[oldskool]

really? i know nothing about it apart from resolution. the one thing i nothiced about the sd cams is that they pixelate under dark or busy conditions... eg going 60ks though a forest all the trees turn to sqares. could just be a crappy camera though. all i know is those atc3k cameras are shit
That'll be the changes in brightness and contrast, 2 things ccd or cmos sensors don't handle well. The cheaper the camera the worse the effect of bright lights and dark shadows. Trick circuitry like auto gain control etc tries to average this out. Then comes along video compression. The cheap cameras avoid buffering and have silly high compression levels and this is what reduces the dark trees into fragmented artifacts.

[Sammikins]

Man what a thread hijack.... helmet cams???! :gob: