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happy Birthday missus Neon Samurai 😉

bitchin! nice speeds there Stef.
Im stuck in noonooland witha 1 meg con although they offer 20meg lines Im sure i wouldnt get anything sorted out with spanish techies if i was having the same problem 😕

@sickofitall wrote:

These things have been out ages, it’s beyond me why they’re still so expensive.

because apple set the price range and everyone wants to make a profit. remember when a recordable CD was almost £20? and it wasnt even re-recordable!
with regards to headphones Insane has a point about sennheiser. Deffinatly the best headphones on the market

has itchy nicked my “suck my balls” Stephen Hawkin catchphrase? 🙄

a peice of kit you should make a serious investment in is the “fig rig”

http://www.manfrotto.com/Jahia/site/manfrotto/cache/offonce/pid/3349?fullList=0

its the best bloody invention in recent years. Its a steady cam system that is super flexible. you basically drive the camera around like a steering wheel and it will leave you with some impressive camera work. My missus bought one as she was filming the “making of” on the last film I worked on. It were that good that the cameramen on the film borrowed it and filmed some shots for the movie on it using their smaller celuloid camera (being about the size of that sony)
you can get one for under £200 and although it doesnt look like much I can promise you it will make the world of difference.
Other stuff. be sure to manually adjust settings like aperture to get best results and try to avoid using the flip out lcd screen during the day for obvious reasons. Always check your sound levels especially in any situations where people are talking and you want the audience to hear it. The general rule for that is DONT have the levels too high as correcting distortion is a pain in the ass and can never be resolved whereas low level can always be normalised and white noise cleaned up. SO try to make sure there is no peaking. Take some reasonable fold away headphones. Follow Neons advice as he has obviously been educated in this malarky also and has given you some very good advice there

Best of luck bud. I thought it was Afghanistan? has it changed?
One of our Finest =XDC=Enigma was in Basra a couple of years ago having large projectiles thrown at him by young kids on a regular basis. Perhaps I can get him to drop some words of advice for you about conditions out there. Its about time Eggy showed his face again.
Anyhows ditto on any stuff you may need which even includes chit like extra pairs of socks which im sure would go down well on mountain manouvers 😉

very nice
kind of Hendrixy feel to it in his band of Gypsies phase 😉