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jt method, to align with the fucked up direction this thread has taken. HARRUMMPH!!1

Saccone's

to each his own. I'm just sayin' it's an indicator. dollars to donuts, she needed a come-along to zip that dress. could be dangerous to be in the same room.

lunch-lady arms. wnb

anyone else's wife unable (or unwilling) to make the connection between the concepts of "Where Things Can Be Found" and "Where Things Go"? I've learned to deal with it, for the most part. it's the borrowing of my tools that grinds my gears. I will say she's figured out how to put away her personal yard tools. yay. she bought herself a set of mildly useful Ryobi cordless gadgets because she doesn't like swinging my heavier gas powered trimmer and blower, and doesn't approve of the frequency with which I choose to use them. she hangs those back up without fail. and her chargers have taken over my workbench. on the otherhand, I no longer have to patch extension cords, which she liked to nick with the hedge trimmer, and she's shaved about 2 minutes off my edging time. so there's that. Thanks. I feel better.

this is no place for science! I think I'll try super view, next time. I think my old gopros had either wide, medium and maybe one other (zoom?). medium had the most vertical range, which was good for mtb stuff to show more trail. the fisheye thing still bothers me, but SV does show more of the trail and seems a little more 3D on passing objects, which I do like. I doubt VP has any image correction for fisheye. seems like gopro studio, being proprietary to the camera, knows the radius of the fisheye and can do the math more accurately. but that's just pulling thoughts out of body cavities. VP does have stabilization, but you end up with jiggly black borders of the frame as it tries to keep the image centered. the internal camera stab is 10000% better, even though it operates on the same principle. not sure why, but your FOV test would only play in 720p. thought my ipad was acting up, but no. mine still play in 1080HD. finally, I'm curious what you thought of the FOV/image quality on my videos before you made the conscious investigation.

I'll take "Cool Shit You Find on the Trail" for $600, Alex great ride today with the old crew (at a distance, of course). started off sketchy, down a long, wet and ledgy descent, but traction was fine, after that. sun dried it up, quick. 3rd day riding in a row. lots of n00b hikers out on the trails, these days. everyone seems to be unusually respectful, but I imagine that has way more to do with minding the covid gap than anything else. one old lady got way off the trail and held her hand over her mouth and nose as we passed. on the gopro setup, for me it works best hanging upside-down and all all the way til it stops against the chesty plate. puts it at roughly a 45* angle to the plate. so if I'm standing full upright, it's shooting mostly sky, with maybe my throat/chin in the top of the frame. if your riding position is very upright, then you can add a knuckle between the plate and the camera to give more room to rotate it more parallel to the plate. I seriously doubt that's any mountainbiker's normal body angle, though. maybe if you're seated with the dropper post slammed all the way down. I used to run the camera rightsideup with the extra knuckle in there to push the bottom of the camera out far enough to get the same angle, but it's too clumsy, and on very steep terrain, where my body is near parallel to the ground, it would max out and still shoot mostly top tube. flipping it and taking out the extra knuckle lets me swing the camera up for long downhills (Angel Fire) when I'm parallel to the ground a lot.

yessir

you're just Randall Flagging her Mother Abigail, you insensitive bastard (or, as my wife says, 'turd').

to be fair, the correct answer is, "sort of."

yup. I was in the NEZ, for that game. all that red on Hadnot's helmet...comin right at us.

did Crystal (aka BFE) Falls, today. fast and flowy, with surprising elevation for the area. a bit of a hike to get there, even for me in '59, so clipped off some exploration to get back to work.

Pearl's. I miss that place. mostly because it was one of the few live music joints at that end of town (that I remember). video's from a Steamboat show, but the I think he last time I went to Pearl's was to see this guy. or Lou Ann.

some 'featured' tamales at HEB, under some queso and Valentina black, just to be sure.

high ground is dry-ish. rocks and roots were snotty, but no mud. I like days like this. the yoga pants were out in force. holy shmokes.

plague. rain. this is what it's come to. maybe I'll make it back to CO, one of these days.

very cool ride, K. you're gonna love it. although your stem no longer says "Welcome to the wonderful island of Thomson! Have a nice day", the ride will be so much better. pretty sure I met Wes many years ago. cool dude. he was a pretty competitive rider back then, but more-or-less had to shut it down due to some degenerative back issues, as I recall. counting my blessings. turns out the reason I couldn't get above 720p on my ipad was my iOS was about 4 versions old. I get 1080HD now. of course, I'm sure there's a dozen useless 'features' I don't need that I have to now navigate around, but whatever. one of the few iOS updates that did something meaningful. videos look good now. now all I have to do is make good videos. last one is lame, on repeat viewings. just doesn't convey how fun that trail is. lazy editing, tbh.

ruh-roh. at least now we know where all this rain came from. on the video, I'm not seeing what Braf is seeing, and even if I was, I think it has more to do with youtube's general decline in performance video over the years (at least for freeloaders on ipads, like me). in particular, very leafy trail footage takes a long time for youtube to resolve to the listed resolution. so twisting through the cedars is just a big green blur. it certainly has nothing to do with editing technique. perhaps it has more to do with airplane glue. I will say that the Linear setting on the camera seems to undo some of the image distortion. your arms (as are mine in older videos) are freakishly long and curved. you might play with that. btw, stem length is inversely proportional.

that looks like a fun place to get lost, KuRdt! good job! VP's pretty straight forward. you probably figured this out pretty quick, but it's a good idea to lock the music track so you don't accidentally chop it up if you reshuffle video segments. btw, looks like you went through a wet spot. wtf?!?!?1

not real cat

yeah. 'crotch' makes it sound....infected. -------- so my hearing sucks, ok. one of the ways I cope with it is to ask yes or no questions. easy to tell the audible difference, gets right to the point of what I need to know. in 15 years of marital bliss, I have yet to receive a 'yes' or 'no' as a first response. ex, just now. me: did you get the mail? her: [50-word inaudible reply from the other room] me: was that a yes or no? her: no rinse, repeat.

yeah, but the Finch gag is a distant 3rd in the Hands Down classification.

nice work, Evel!