Bailey Creek Lodge

Memorial Day this year was indeed memorable with some of the best May trout fishing I’ve ever had.   Large  20-25 inch trout selectively feeding on damsels and calibaetis made it challenging and fun.  This years annual Memorial Day Syn Family Fishout got redirected from Antelope Creek Lodge to Baily Springs Lodge.    Our hosts – Peter and…

Nikon 14-24mm vs Lumix 7-14

  If I had seen a comparison of these two lenses a couple years ago, I would have laughed. It is indeed comparing apples to oranges but now that I am into the form factor, video wonderfulness, and practicality of Micro 4/3rds,  its time to take a close look at the Lumix 7-14mm f4.  The…

Pressing Day

The must hit the magic sugar level of 4 brix today and I headed over to Fermentation Solutions and rented a 10 gallon press.   Instead of buying a bunch of glass carboys for our 15 gallons of wine,   I decided to by a 25 gallon Stainless Steel Carboy so that next year when…

Leland High School Senior Homecoming Skit 2008

The Class of 09 performed their final skit at Leland today which I had the opportunity to film. Using an HD1000 with fish eye and an HD800 for closer shots I edited the short film in Adobe CS4’s two camera mode in half an hour. Leland High School Senior Homecoming Skit 2008 from Meng Syn…

Breakthrough: Sanyo Xacti HD1000 1080i Playback on PC

Finally found a solution to the ability to playback Sanyo Xacti HD1000 1080i camera captures back on a PC. Its called the CoreAVC Codec.  Next step is to test Premier CS4 with native Xacti HD h.264. The CoreAVC High Definition H.264 video codec is widely known as the world’s fastest and most efficient H.264 video…