Some photos with the Pentax W90 mounted to the kite, it is not a good quality camera, hope you like the pics....

Location: Northern beaches, Sydney, NSW

GoPro cam of the same day, experimenting with very short bridles, small waves 17 knots

s h i t s green

Lovely said...

Is that pollution or stagnant water, Mould, Strange?
Alot of people and poo in NSW.

Its reef, green sea grass and rocks, cleanest water.

Hey Christian, regarding the W90..

You might want to check your settings because I get awesome photo quality out of mine - on photos.

Movie I agree the quality is crap unless you are completely zoomed out and still crap after that - you cannot beat the GoPro on film and photo quality.

But the W90 surely has its place. The quality improved no end since my W60 - perhaps a good thing it got water logged by the seal not closing properly. Mind you, it was 2,5 years old.

Look at a couple of random pics at different zoom levels... Photos are untouched.. I didn't zoom them in Photoshop, they are straight out of the camera.

Hey, Sir V... photo 4... you might want to start experimenting with the zoom. and you could also consider working on some more content on that angle, i think there is a website dedicated to that stuff... called 'upskirts' or something.

Sir V said...

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Sir V said...

Hey Christian, regarding the W90..

You might want to check your settings because I get awesome photo quality out of mine - on photos.

Movie I agree the quality is crap unless you are completely zoomed out and still crap after that - you cannot beat the GoPro on film and photo quality.

But the W90 surely has its place. The quality improved no end since my W60 - perhaps a good thing it got water logged by the seal not closing properly. Mind you, it was 2,5 years old.

Look at a couple of random pics at different zoom levels... Photos are untouched.. I didn't zoom them in Photoshop, they are straight out of the camera.

Here is why the Pentax W90 is CRAP

If you look at my photos, its grainy and blurry around the white areas, see image 2, my face is a white glow, no detail.

But what is relay CRAP is the video, I upgraded to the latest camera for better video, but you can only do 10 mins of frigging video! Then you have to land and press record again + the video is crap quality.

My 2 year old Pentax w30 could do 4hours of video! So the W90 is a downgrade...

Also the video quality is so crap. Other cameras will use up the whole memory card ( 8hours or more video ). Also if you want to get technical, the camera uses jpg compression so has crap colors and res in video.

w90 not good? you guys never had a olympus u tough!. that thing really is pants.

I am well happy with the w90, but its true the vid anin't all that.

anyways any chance you can show us how you attached the w90?

You can grab the CamRig through the Seabreeze Shop...

www.seabreeze.com.au/shop/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=27

I link a video taken with pentax Optio W80 with a hand made support:

#p/u/19/Q1qRneY8Gpw

and some pictures taken with the same camera:

www.spainkiters.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=80480

The video in low wind with the Argo 13.5 was taken too with this W80.

You could check more kite and wind videos at CIBERNOVENTAYNUEVE youtube channel.

Hope you like them.

If you could be interested in settings I could ask about them.

vwpete said...

w90 not good? you guys never had a olympus u tough!. that thing really is pants.

I am well happy with the w90, but its true the vid anin't all that.

anyways any chance you can show us how you attached the w90?

I used a cam rig also, a few years old.
Clips broke, so I got a meter of Velcro and Velcroed it to the struts.
New camera was a different fit so I cut out a larger hole.
It does not look pretty but works great.

I did some research, the LUMIX is the best quality for images and video, but doesn't do interval shooting.

Just need some wind and large waves to get something interesting...

catalaussie said...

I link a video taken with pentax Optio W80 with a hand made support:

#p/u/19/Q1qRneY8Gpw

and some pictures taken with the same camera:

www.spainkiters.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=80480

The video in low wind with the Argo 13.5 was taken too with this W80.

You could check more kite and wind videos at CIBERNOVENTAYNUEVE youtube channel.

Hope you like them.

If you could be interested in settings I could ask about them.

I would be quite happy with the quality you got on your video.. I haven't been able to get anything that good. Perhaps something to do with the zoom and additional settings - back to the drawing board. I didn't think the w90 would be that bad as the photos are such high quality, so it must be something I am doing wrong.

Yes I would love to know what settings were used. More study to do.. gracias por tu video Catalaussie.

Saludos

Vasco

Anyone taken some photos with a luminx?

the image below was taken on the w30 ( 3 year old camera, not much difference or might be even better than the new w90 piece of plastic crap)

Get a gopro!