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gamefish

Trainee

Posts: 76

Location: South Africa, Richards Bay

Hobbies: marlin fishing and boating

Sunday, January 21st 2007, 9:19am

On Board Video Capture

I need help or suggestions........

To date I have been using a normal Sony camcorder mounted on a rail clamp to capture video of our fishing adventures, but this is not ideal.

With the standard lens, we miss a lot of the jumps etc

With a wide angle lens, we get good area coverage but loose too much detail (quality) on the video.

I would like some help with selecting on-board equipment that could take semi-professional quality footage and that could be permanently mounted, maybe with three cameras, one for the cockpit shots, one for the far shots and jups and one on the outrigger to capture a side on view of the action next to the boat while fish is being tagged and released.

Ideally one should have a monitor showing all three views at the same time, with a control system that would allow you to record any or all three views at the push of a button.

gamefish

PanamaJack

Super Moderator

Posts: 1,426

Location: Sevenoaks, Kent, England

Hobbies: All forms of fishing

Sunday, January 21st 2007, 4:53pm

Hi Kas
I guess even with multiple cameras deployed it will always end up as somewhat of a compromise. And there’s probably nothing that can come close to having a dedicated photographer on board.

Once in Hawaii I remember a young lady came out with us and, apart from one ‘comfort break’ spent the whole day on the cabin roof – it was one of those ‘strange’ local boats – with a beach towel around her, under an umbrella. Literally the only strike we had came in that two minutes of radio silence – it was the HIBT - at the end of the fishing day. There’s me screaming at the deckie to call the strike but she kept a cool head and got some excellent jumping shots of a Spearfish. That’s until it threw the hook!

Then a couple of years ago on Ascension Island we had a renown French video photographer – Gerard Aulong – with us. As well as his main video camera he’d also got an underwater pod tracking just in front of one of the ‘short’ lures and he spend all the time just ‘glued’ to its monitor. It certainly illustrated something though. He picked up a Sailfish that made a sub surface pass at the lure that neither the skipper on the fly bridge, or us on the deck had spotted.

The point though was that Gerard, being an experienced angler, knew exactly where fish were and when they were about to jump. He got some excellent footage. And Matthias had it edited and created an excellent DVD publicising his operation based on Harmattan.

So, there has to be a compromise. There’re the strategically placed cameras that you mentioned but there’s also the helmet mounted cameras. Great for when a fish is up close and being leadered! The deckie instinctively follows the action.

Perhaps Uwe, or someone else, will know whether Olaf – the Grimmel – Grimkowski subscribes to the German speaking forum elements? I know he has one of those cameras that he’s used on Shy 3 (and Andromeda) in Ascension and Andromeda in Cape Verde. If not it might perhaps be worth contacting him – he speak excellent English – through his personal web site. Olaf’s e-mail address is ogrimmel@web.de.
Dave

Dave
Honorary Life President
Sportfishing Club of the British Isles
http://www.sportfishingclub.co.uk