Narrowboat

Youtube isn’t a great site for having my time lapse videos on, so having a look at blip.tv.
I’ve set up http://narrowboat.blip.tv  and guess its now a matter of putting stuff up again.

So far I had worked out a good routine of doing my video-blogs. On the trips themselves its just a matter of setting the camera up and changing the battery every 2 hours (or just under) - this at least means it has minimal interference with the “holiday”; capturing the “video” doesn’t take over the [...]

I’ve been fascinated with time-lapse videos for many years, so the idea of producing one as a video diary of my holidays afloat seemed a great way of compressing an 8 or 10 hour days cruise into something people are able to watch. Once I’d found the equipment, a ricoh camera that takes shots at [...]

My video diaries are done using a Ricoh Caplio R6 on a suction tripod mount set to take photos at 5 second intervals. As you can appreciate that could mean a lot of photos. So how many? Well having now got all the photos from my trip down the GUC earlier this month onto my [...]

Having had computer problems in the past which have resulted in losing all my bookmarks, passwords etc, I decided to look for some way of backing them up. I use Firefox, and have found that you can now enable an export option to save bookmarks/passwords by way of adding in a simple extension. This was [...]