Entries Tagged as 'Video/Multimedia'

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Translation/Transcription Timeglut! Help?

We’ve got an excellent guy working on it. Suman is friend-of-a-friend of the Little Sisters Fund, and it’s all going great. Well, almost all. 
That the way we’re doing it is to log/capture our tapes (so that the data is safe on our Dulce drive), then we give Suman the tape and our second camera to [...]

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

The Gearhead Promise: Canon, Leica, Zylight, Brunton, Kata

I guess it is about time to talk about some of the gearhead stuff upon which this blog was partly founded.
CANON XH-A1 video camera: It’s been around for a while, and compared to digital still cameras, camcorders (especially at the ‘prosumer’ level, typically have a much longer product lifespan.
That combined with the fact that (again, [...]

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

God Bless Blogging!

It feels so good to know we are not alone.
I had barely finished my blog session yesterday when I received a comment from a documentary filmmaker we have never met–John Gyovai of Skyhouse Films. His website’s tag line  is Telling Stories that capture the heart and mind (I like it). He out is out there doing [...]

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Two Big Deal Days

Yesterday morning we got up at 5:00 to meet Nutan downstairs. We made our way to Gokarna via taxi. Gokarna is not all that far away. It lies on the edge of the Kathmandu Valley and I bet is only about 10 miles from here, but took almost 25 minutes due to bad roads. Crummy [...]

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Fun Starts Here (Or: First Things First)

So, all the LSF trekkers have departed and we spent the day getting settled into our new, bigger hotel room.
Well, that’s not exactly right; first we had a great meeting over at the LSF offices. Ramesh and Nutan are the amazing ‘ground crew’ here in Kathmandu, the very spine of the organization. Amy’s already talked [...]