Storm Driven

Deciding I didn’t want to go home after work and find myself watching someone elses video, of a great storm. I decided to head west shortly after 4pm. I was going to sit south of Enid but I ended up in Hennessey due to needing a bathroom and food. It short of paid of as I finally got to see not one but both TIV’s, which I have missed every year since Sean started out in it. The Bald Eagle was when I was crossing over Keystone Lake and the bumper sticker was on a Payne County Sheriff SUV in Stillwater.

Maybe better luck next trip, tomorrow?

Not leaving the soccer tournament in Norman until after 1pm ended up putting me at Vici to meet the tornado warned cell, that many got tornado pics from earlier. I didn’t get to see a tornado but I still enjoyed a few storms Sunday in NW Oklahoma.

I even got to try out my new Canon HD camcorder (still need to learn all the settings )

Checking out the Canon HF S100 HD Camcorder. Mostly programmed AE @ 24Mbps. Auto focus was used for the cardinal feeding and manual focus for the rest as you can till at the end with the flicker woodpecker that I didn’t get it focused in.

I probably put as many miles and hours in this day and night as a chase to Kansas or Nebraska would have.

These are mostly of the storm in the Alva area, viewed from the south.

Since I started working on streaming video, I’ve been wanting to stream with my old Sony trv128 camcorder at night. Not having an s-video or a composite plugin on my laptop prevented that until now. The solution was a EasyCap USB video capture adapter for only $15.95 found here at Amazon . I was skeptical of it from the reviews but still chose it over the higher priced adapters listed. 3 days after ordering it I had it hooked up and working in a couple of minutes. There was no problem hooking it up with Vista and works perfectly with the Adobe Flash media Encoder .  Save some bucks and go cheap with this adapter.

Soon I’ll be taking the next leap into the HD evolution with a new camcorder.

 The Canon Vixia HF S100 has drawn me into making the jump of a better quality video.. I had been looking at the Vixia HG21 but the S100 has a larger sensor of 1/2.6 and   approx 8.59 megapixels on top of 24mbps recording.  Noise in low-light will still be an issue but not worth giving up on HD completly. Some good test video can be found on youtube  of this camera but my favorite site for examples is at Digital Chumps like this one for low-light

Pictures were taken just south of Tullahassee Oklahoma, off highway 51 & 69 northwest of Muskogee.

Timelapse of a cell N.W. of Muskogee Oklahoma this afternoon.