Summer has finally hit on the east coat of Canada. How hot is it you ask, it’s so hot that my beloved laptop wont even run for more then two minutes without overheating! I did take advantage of the situation to spend some time outside with the family testing out the brand new waterproof Pentax W80 camera.
Review coming soon!
Anyone else in a heatwave right now? Personally I love the heat, it makes the beer taste that much better!
And a tip for fishing hot days, slow down your presentation!
About a month ago I replaced my old point and shoot digital camera with the new Canon Elph SD780 IS (oh hell ya I got mine in matte black). It’s super awesome! Not only is it pretty much the same size as my old Canon Elph SD10, its got 3 times the megapixels and it shoots HD video! Check out this thread in the forum when I first got the camera, it’s got a few test shots and stuff.
This video was shot while fishing Toronto Islands last saturday where Clive and I met up with Paul. He caught this pike about 10 minutes before a huge storm formation came together and we got soaked in the rain and pelted with hail before making it to cover.
I’ve always wanted an under water camera. I’ve traveled to some incredible places where I could had some great underwater shots, but underwater case for cameras are generally very expensive. Now Liquid Image has designed the perfect device for photographing and filming underwater, a digital camera mask! The best part, it’ll cost just over a hundred bucks!
Karin Bussard was testing out her Nikon D80 underwater, minding her own business, when a couple of sharks, who were up to no good, started making trouble in her neighborhood…
The next day we see more tiger sharks and I slowly start to get used to these enormous beasts. During a dive at sunset we are treated to four great tiger sharks. As a team we work together and take turns taking photos. At a given moment one of the sharks gets in too close to one of the divers and Jim intervenes. He gives the shark a push with the camera. The tiger shark is not impressed. He grabs hold of the camera and swims aggressively away with it. I am feeling uncomfortable and go through my oxygen quickly. Luckily the shark eventually lets go of the camera and swims away. Once we are back on board Jim asks if anyone made a photo of it. I ask him if he’s crazy. When I look at my photos that night I realize someone did take photos…
First, I appologize for the lack of updates recently. Clive and I have both been working furiously to generate some great new content for everyone. We took a few trips to “The Bog”, Lake Scugog, and had one hell of a time both on the lake and at the only bar in Port Perry the night before. Unfortunatly, we weren’t able to land any Musky on either trip, but we did find the occasional out-of-season Largemouth Bass and lots of Panfish and Rock Bass. The guy in the middle is Martin, a friend of a friend that happened to come along last minute. It couldn’t have worked out better because we had a crazy-ass time at the bar. He definitely knows what fishing fury is all about.
You may not have even noticed, but our site was moved to a new server a few days ago which will allow for the higher capacity of hits the photo gallery will no doubt generate, and further expansion into some new and exciting sites. This site may go down briefly tonight as I try, again, to update Wordpress to version 2.
The Fishing Fury photo gallery is coming along nicely and I’m expecting to launch the first version very soon. This would be my first project in Ruby on Rails and I wan’t to make sure it’s a bit more polished before I release it. Though I haven’t worked with RoR for very long I really like the environment they’ve set up, I just wish (like many newbies, I’m sure) their online documentation was a bit more complete.
I’ve even got another review coming soon!
JVC Everio First Impressions – I bought this camera because it sounded like everything I wanted and needed (other than High Definition), and it would hopefully save me from hours of capturing footage from DV tapes. This camcorder is able to record over 7 hours of DVD quality footage, to it’s internal 30GB hard drive. Will it be everything I hoped for, or another great idea built on crippled hardware or software. (model: GZ-MG77U)
We packed it in after an hour and headed to a nearby bar called “The Bomb” in Balmertown to grab some food and drink. The beer was good, but the food was pretty greasy and it left a lot to be desired as our last meal before the trip. I don’t think we talked much about food on our last trip, mostly because we didn’t bring any, and the same held true this year. In true Fishing Fury spirit, we we’re to become one with the lake over the next week. Aside from a single case of beer, that miraculously turned up empty on the fourth night, everything we would consume would come from the lake and the fish would be cleaned and cooked by the same hands that caught them, and there is no meal more satisfying than that.
