17 Dec 2011

Steel Panther, Motley Crue & Def Leppard

So on Tuesday 13th Dec myself and a load of friends went to see all of the above play at Sheffield arena. Epic doesn't even describe it. As good as Def Leppard are I was mainly there to see Crue and especially Steel Panther. Their set wasnt as long as I would have hoped for but for what they lacked in quantity they more than made up for in quality. Buy their album and actually listen to it, in a nutshell its 80's glam rock with songs about sex and drugs.

In true Panther style we got the spandex pants out, wigs and head bands too. Its safe to say we were clearly the minority as we only saw a handful of other people dressed up. We actually looked like we could have been back up singers for Steel Panther but with less makeup on.


Its all about the leopard print spandex!



11 Dec 2011

GoPro SD card help

I first thought it was just me being dumb until I asked about and found loads of people making the same mistake. I have had a GoPro HD Hero for a couple of years now and its been one of the best thing I have ever bought, I use it more than I would have ever anticipated and highly recommend anyone to buy one. Im forever watching all the random videos on YouTube and picking up filming tips and the best places to mount it etc but I always thought that my footage quality was never quite as crisp and sharp or as HD as all the others I had watched. I used to think it was the lighting or something causing it (at least that was my excuse).

Until recently after a little research I never knew that there were different classes of SD card. This determine the speed of which information can be written to the card. In this case how fast video and sound can be recorded. The faster the card is, the better the quality of the footage is. GoPro's will take a class 4, class 6 and a class 10. The higher the class number is the higher quality the footage will be.

Summary of the classes:
Class 2 - Write speed of about 2 Mb/s
Class 4 & 6 - Write speed of about 4 & 6Mb/s
Class 10 - Write speeds can vary from 10Mb/s up to 30Mb/s but you need to check with the manufacturers specification

I have ordered a Scandisk 16Gb Class 10 card which being shipped as I write this. Fingers crossed it will work out as planned. Ill keep you posted though.

To check what class your SD cards are its the little number with a 'C' around it as shown below


I hope this has been of some help