like the series. mal

Mark Seal contacted me in 2007, around about the same time as his membership to dpNow!

Jocelyn, I think you mentioned the Roots in one of your first posts on the DPNow forum back in 2006:

http://dpnow.com/forum2/showthread.php?t=650

Ian

I've never read these blogs before today & found your topic of interest! Some years ago..I think 2006/7, I posted something on an article or obituary written about my cousin Joan Root who was murdered on her farm in Kenya! She had been a wild life photographer/film maker, conservationist/environmentalist! I had mentioned it in a post on a dPNow forum at some point too! An article had also been written in Vanity Fair by Mark Seal about her...'A Flowering Evil'! Not long after that, I was contacted by Mark Seal who asked if I or any of the family could share some anecdotes about Joan as he was doing some research for a film of Joan's life which Julia Robert's was portraying Joan as well as directing! Neither I nor my family wanted to share anecdotes however! How did he find me Look at dpNow members for his name, date of membership & activity

The Olympus Pens I use offer little video compression as they use Motion JPEG. They shoot at 720 HD resolution (1280x720) at 30P (30 frames per second, progressive) and are encapsulated in an AVI file format. This is limited to 2GB in size per clip, and that contains just 7 minutes of video, or 293MB per minute.

I bought my 550d back in February, and have used the HD movie mode several times when I've been at a gig (by request, I hasten to add) but the file sizes are horrendous! The largest to date is 1.09gb for a 3 minute movie in HD.

Nowadays I use the crop mode but if the band do two songs together it can still end being a very large file - at my last gig I clocked up 1.49gb when they segued from one song into another. However, that video is over 9 minutes long. I'm not happy with the quality, but they seem to like it.

The other thing I've noticed with movie mode if you've got the 18-55mm or 50mm lens on is that you have to be a lot farther away or you're looking up their nostrils! This isn't always possible if you're in a bar or club so handheld the videos can be a bit on the wobbly side because it's not always possible to set up a tripod when the club is heaving.

short answer - yes

i can't see any advantage to the consumer for adding in these blocking measures. a battery supplies a voltage. they don't suffer from viruses etc, so why add a non-canon block?
if i had to buy same manufacturer only batteries instead of the greys available on places like 7dayshop, i'd have spent a not inconsiderable sum in the process.

proprietary stuff such as this is enough to make me look elsewhere. i now usually check the availability of grey alternatives before buying a camera so i can factor the additional cost into my decision - for the underwater cameras we need 3 per camera....1 in use, 1 charging, 1 waiting to go. at the cited £75 a pop, that's an un-realistic additional expense.

Sony and, not photography-related, Apple, have had battery issues that were apparently potentially dangerous, but these were with their own batteries, not third party ones. I suppose that if you can't trust your own batteries, how can you trust third party ones Panasonic, too, has incorporated third party battery blocking in its latest camera firmware updates.

Yes Stephen it is food for thought and any presence on the Internet may give away a bit about us.
But there are some very obvious sites to avoid giving info too, and you have mentioned a couple Facebook & Twitter, I have no account with these and never will.
Google from some things I have read are not as tight as they used to be either, and i have just opened two email addresses up with them

Patrick

Hi Stephen, Google may show your website to you as the first on the hit list, but not necessarily to everyone else. Google will have a record of your search habits and this may influence the results when searching. It also affects the ads you may see on sites showing google banners. I spent some time researching my new phone and now I'm always seeing banner ads for related products and services on various websites

One thing worth mentioning is that Canon operates a very attractive Canon Professional Services outfit; they will even lend lenses for free and sort out technical problems at key events. I think the membership requirement has been raised recently, though, as you need to own two professional Canon bodies and three lenses to get membership.

I don't seem to be very good at spotting these blogs. Even though I daily check the new filtered posts, I didn't see it!

A very interesting set of images Stephen. How many flights did you have? I noticed that the fields and trees were green to start with and then appeared to be more autumnal, but not really bare. Did you start last summer or the summer before, as you say it was a 2 year project?

The aerial pics are very sharp.

The panoramas are amazing and are an excellent record. I expect the owners are delighted with them.

Thanks for showing us.

The glamorous life you pros lead, Stephen, it's all photographing pretty girls, top sporting events, film stars, momentous occasions, sensational news stories, exotic landscapes in faraway places, cover shots for National Geographic and ........ warehouses!

Still, that's some warehouse - I cannot believe the scale of it. Must have been an interesting project and photographing it from the air is pretty cool. Maybe Vogue will phone next week to commission a fashion shoot in the Seychelles.....

Thanks for posting, Stephen. Jokes about warehouses aside, this is a facinating set of pictures. I don't suppose many more warehouses of that size will be built anytime soon, given the economic outlook. You have been involved in a project which may prove to be pretty much unique!

Fascinating. I can't help but imagine that huge interior as a giant ice rink, where I'd have been in my element in my younger days.

Very interesting to see the interior panos as well as the aerial slideshow. Watching the motoway is almost as good as watching the building going up. Those pics are very good. Nice to see them all more or less from a similar angle so that there's a good and meaningful series of the construction of the building.

How did you fly? Was it a helicopter or a small plane such as a Cessna?

All in all a nice job and I'd be interested to see a the floodlit pic if you can manage to get one that could be shared.

Pols

A work of art.

Congrats on a job well done. Good colour throughout.

Regards. Barr1e