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avatar Half Dome From Turlock
March 15, 2010 06:45PM
OK. To stir up the pot again I have been to Hall Road in Turlock very recently and taped Half Dome from there. (Turlock)
If anybody wants a one minute DVD of the zoom in zoom out of Half Dome from Turlock let me know. I tried to upload it to youtube but the resulting quality was poor. PM me if you would like a copy to play on your very own TV. It's free.

YouTube video now available thanks to Ron's technical advice:





Old Dude



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/10/2010 12:10PM by mrcondron.
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
March 15, 2010 07:09PM
I shouldn't have to ask.
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
March 15, 2010 07:12PM
OK. I know how to get to your house but I don't know the address. it's somewhere on the peninsula right?


Old Dude
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
March 15, 2010 08:48PM
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mrcondron
OK. I know how to get to your house but I don't know the address. it's somewhere on the peninsula right?

Can't you send it by carrier Chick-on?
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
March 15, 2010 09:28PM
Chick-on said he do a fly-by.

Or:
Just split it into a bunch of smaller rar files and email them to me.

smiling smiley

(consider this your project for Tuesday)
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
March 17, 2010 09:33PM
What's an rar file?


Old Dude
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
March 18, 2010 03:19AM
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mrcondron
What's an rar file?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rar
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
March 18, 2010 07:25AM
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eeek
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mrcondron
What's an rar file?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rar

Mike, sorry you asked?
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
March 18, 2010 09:26AM
I'm still trying to recover.


Old Dude
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
April 08, 2010 01:52PM
Eye keeps a lookin in da mail box and no DVD in der.

Billy sez he's still waiting fur his birdday present too.


Chick-on is looking at you!
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
April 08, 2010 02:37PM
OOPS!


Old Dude
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
April 08, 2010 09:20PM
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chick-on

Billy sez he's still waiting fur his birdday present too.

I reminded Old Dude (Old Dude=forgetful) to send a certain package that has been a work in progress for many months, on time !!!!!



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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
April 09, 2010 12:30AM
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Bee
I reminded Old Dude (Old Dude=forgetful) to send a certain package that has been a work in progress for many months, on time !!!!!

And how is that working out for you?
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avatar Re: Half Dome From Turlock
April 09, 2010 08:15AM
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mrcondron
OK. To stir up the pot again I have been to Hall Road in Turlock very recently and taped Half Dome from there. (Turlock)
If anybody wants a one minute DVD of the zoom in zoom out of Half Dome from Turlock let me know. I tried to upload it to youtube but the resulting quality was poor. PM me if you would like a copy to play on your very own TV. It's free.

If you have a Mac, try compressing with Quicktime and choose the H.264 encoder - that can reduce file size and keep higher quality. If you're using a HD camera, then DVD will a reduce the image size at lower quality. http://vimeo.com is also a good hosting site.
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avatar Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 09:10AM
Turlock [Stanislaus County]. When the railroad reached the place in 1871, John W. Mitchell modestly declined to have the station on his property named for him and suggested the present name, after Turlough in the county of Mayo, Ireland.

The information above was copied from the book “California Place Names/ The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names” by Erwin G. Gudde, Fourth Edition (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998).
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 12:10PM
Ron,
Thank you for the technical advice. It seems to have worked nicely. The first attempts I made were a joke and I would not post them.


Not a crystal clear day but good. I will keep my eye out for better days but snow on HD helps.





Old Dude
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 04:27PM
COO-WUL!!!! You can plainly see El Cap and Half Dome!

B
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 05:27PM
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Bee
COO-WUL!!!! You can plainly see El Cap and Half Dome!

B


We want to see his "I Survived Turlock!" tee-shirt to prove that he was really there.
(signed)
The Beaks

P.S. He's probably going to claim that he 'forgot' to get one.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/09/2010 05:30PM by szalkowski.
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 05:38PM



Old Dude
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 06:34PM
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mrcondron


That does look like the official, Turlock-approved shirt.
OK, we believe.
(signed)
The Beaks
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 06:52PM
You betcha!


Old Dude
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 10, 2010 11:58AM
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Bee
COO-WUL!!!! You can plainly see El Cap and Half Dome!

B

-----and the trail to El Cap? Grinning Devil
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 10, 2010 04:18PM
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tomdisco
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Bee
COO-WUL!!!! You can plainly see El Cap and Half Dome!

B

-----and the trail to El Cap? Grinning Devil

angry smiley

Bending Bee



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/10/2010 04:18PM by Bee.
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 10, 2010 04:22PM
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Bee
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tomdisco
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Bee
COO-WUL!!!! You can plainly see El Cap and Half Dome!

B

-----and the trail to El Cap? Grinning Devil

angry smiley

Bending Bee

Rolling on floor laugh
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 04:47PM
Wow! Ewe can teach an Old Dude new tricks!

chicken head


Chick-on is looking at you!
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 04:53PM
Finally, the definitive proof ...........although....except ..... perhaps....... an unusual cloud formation or sea gull deposit on the camera lens?


The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 05:03PM
You peeked!!


Old Dude
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avatar Re: Turlock, from...
April 09, 2010 05:27PM
Nice! Thanks for taking the time to get the video uploaded & shared, and good job getting the image.

Image quality from Quicktime (or for any movie file, really) is all about frame dimensions and kilobytes per second, the kbps you see if you display movie info (command-i on a mac) when a movie is playing. 2000-2500 or so is pretty good and not greatly discernable from 4000+, in my experience. Cheers!
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Roadrash
Re: Half Dome From Turlock
April 09, 2010 02:01PM
Awesome thank you. I was still skeptical but after your video, i do believe. Thanks for that, fun to watch!
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