Just for fun, I filmed a...

[Michael McLaughlin]

problably could start my own thread with...

problably could start my own thread with...

times you wish you had a camera...

But talking of spiders, for those of you out in LA specifically Hollywood hill, when I was walking the path to the Hollywood sign; me and a friend watched (for an unbelievable half hour) one of these tarantula hawk spiders drag a tarantula at least 40 feet. It dragged this considerably larger prey up the hill to a hole she had dug up the hill.

http://travel.nationalgeographic.co...azine/photo-contest/2012/entries/135286/view/

I mean it was fascinating, and after my friend calmed down she got totally enthralled.

If I had any camera, not just my Red, it would have been awesome footage.... cause it was toward sunset, and those wasp have a wild shiny iridescent copper colored wings and a blue shiny hairy body.

To me they are beautiful, a little large and freaky, but a kick ass insect never the less.

The cicada killer wasp back in Ohio (were I grew up) are a bit bigger and nastier, but not as cool looking as these guys... and hell they are only taking on cicadas which are their size or smaller and can't fight back.

 

[Les Hillis]

Thanks Eric.

Sounds like a fascinating scene Michael. Maybe one of those new hi-def GoPro's would be small and light enough to carry in situations like that.

 

[Ben Scott]

Oh man, come on, what are you doing? You've gotta keep that Scarlet loaded and ready to go at all times. I know content is king and with quality subject matter like that you can't really go wrong, but still, foxes, @#%*ing, in 4K, how will you explain to future generations the lost opportunity? :biggrin:

Nice image quality with the still shots by the way, love the look of that Zeiss 135mm. Had a quick look at some of the other pics on your flickr stream too, some good stuff there imo.

Thanks Les, and yes I not only all of Reduser down, I also let myself down..

 

[Les Hillis]

No worries, was only joking about the 4K foxes, don't give it a second thought. Would be good to see that Scarlet/Zeiss Contax 135mm combination in action though. If you ever use it on a project don't forget to put a link to it somewhere around here.

 

[Ben Scott]

Sure will do re the 135mm.. Used it on a Canon C300 recently and results were excellent.

 

[Les Hillis]

...tree with red flowers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2qSL-YMQVY

This is the little bit of garden where the spider from the other video ended up btw.

It's probably a 'guess you had to be there' kind of thing, but I had a great time watching these images in high resolution while editing (and cutting thirty-something minutes of footage down to eight/nine). So much detail, and the colours... thanks RED.

 

[Les Hillis]

...tree with red flowers, and raindrops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60R-23oP2kc

Watch in 1080pHD or 'Original', and with the sound down if the unconventional (though strangely fitting I believe) music bothers you. Depending on your viewing distance and screen size, it probably holds up in full-screen as well.

Will probably be the last of these 'see something and film it' type of video's I put up for a while. Just wanted to encourage people to have fun with their camera's and share the results, and couldn't contain my enthusiasm for the image quality these camera's can put out.