[Tech1] Luxury cruising

[Bernard Newnham]

I've been using just the phone on holiday for several years now.

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On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, 09:17 Paul Thackray via Tech1, <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
wrote:

> Which ever cameras you choose, take extra batteries. I went 15 years ago
> and found battery life at low temps was annoyingly short.
>
> It does depend just where about s you are going, but I found some areas
> were muddy, not icy. I found wellington boots essential to get from a
> Zodiac on to land (Always a few ins of water to cross) and on to the land
> where it was a mix of mud and what the penguins had done (As they moult at
> that time of year , so can not go in the sea, everything has to be done on
> land.... )
>
> Finding someone else to clean your boots can also be helpful !
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> Paul
> On 21/10/2019 08:00, Sara Newman via Tech1 wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am off to Antarctica in February and would like to take a camera which
> takes video as well as stills, is not too heavy and bulky. In all honesty
> for the last few years I have used my phone and a cheap Fuji for when I am
> in the water snorkelling which needs replacing. I would welcome any input
> from the group. We will be out on the ice /in Zodiac and kayaking so needs
> to be waterproof/ have waterproof casing Is GoPro 7 Hero any good. Hope
> everyone is well and Thank you
> Sarax
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 16 Oct 2019, at 18:47, patheigham via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
> wrote:
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> Actually, Yes!
>
> I was booked to record Denis Norden’s links for the 25th anniversary of
> ‘It’ll be Alright on the Night’
>
> Denis wanted to film it in the Sargasso sea, as that was where stuff
> disappeared, like the outtakes!
>
> A location manager was dispatched to the Caribbean to charter a boat, but
> the turnaround time was
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> just one day, so LWT was out of luck, there.
>
> As a second string, a gin palace was chartered for a day out of Monte
> Carlo, and set sail into the Med
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> so far from shore that no land was visible whichever way the camera
> pointed.
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> I managed to get clean dialogue from Denis, wherever on the boat, so that
> the director rang me at home:
>
> “I can’t hear the engines, Pat!”
>
> “Good” I said, “I’ve recorded FX tracks all around the ship so you can dub
> in what you wish”.
>
> (This was from my film industry background, in that one goes for cleanest
> dialogue)
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> The boat’s staff fed us very well, but I had a horrendous hangover from
> inadvisable imbibing from the night before.
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> Still managed to do the job!
>
> I was startled to see that the captain steered the boat with a single knob
> on an Eddystone box!
>
> There was a wheel fastened in front of him but it was a cardboard prop.
>
> I can’t understand these billionaires going to sea in what is a hotel
> suite.
>
> Yachting is about heaving on the halliards and getting wet and
> uncomfortable, innit!
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>
> An aside:
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> On the Michael Winner film “Firepower”, we arrived at  English Harbour in
> Antigua, for a sequence.
>
> Coco Chanel’s yacht was right in centre of the shot. MW was apoplectic, as
> he had stipulated that he had
>
> ‘carte blanche’ on the location.
>
> He got it shifted!
>
> I admire him for that although in other ways he was less than a decent
> fellow.
>
> Pat
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> *From: *David Newbitt via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk>
> *Sent: *16 October 2019 16:35
> *To: *tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
> *Subject: *[Tech1] Luxury cruising
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>  I fell to wondering if any of you have ever been on anything of the type?
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> Dave Newbitt.
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