By DennisG on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 5:57 pm: |
Has anyone purchased one of these? Was it worth it.
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By Fiona Rattray on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 6:04 pm: |
Dennis, I've done this on dives at other locations (Roatan, Nassau) and it's been great for a couple of reasons. 1) Your non-diving friends and family can get a bit of an idea of what it's like 2) you get a memento of your dive, and 3) you can compare your inner vision of your buoyancy control and fin technique with the sometimes amusing reality...
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By Brian J. Walsh on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 8:06 pm: |
We did one in the past, it was nice. Also as opposed to shooting your own with rental gear. It was professionally shot, edited and had a music track added. We also lucked into some neat creatures like a turtle and sea urchin swimming freely which added to it.
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By DennisG on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 9:08 pm: |
Thanks for the quick responses! I think I may just go for it and see. I will be taking a few underwater shots myself, but not video.
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By herman mowery on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 10:15 pm: |
Hi Dennis,
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By Barry Gassert on Monday, July 16, 2001 - 10:27 pm: |
Herman is so right about dubbed music making a world of difference. I like both KennyG and Kitaro as musical background for my underwater video.
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By DennisG on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 9:11 am: |
Thanks again folks...
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By Sandra Price on Tuesday, July 17, 2001 - 9:34 pm: |
I opted not to buy the video filmed thru Buddy Dive when we were there, for a couple of reasons, but I did preview it after. There was a whole beginning sequence of great stuff we DIDN'T get to see on that dive or that trip (Turtle, seahorse, frog fish and more) so that was nice. There weren't a lot of shots of me, but I knew I wouldn't purchase the video, so 'discouraged' him from spending a lot of time/film on me. I suspect that if I had been more aware of, and hamming for the camera, he would have used more film on me, and if I'd flat TOLD him I intended to buy, I'd have been one of the featured players.
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By DARLENE ELLIS on Wednesday, July 18, 2001 - 3:50 pm: |
I bought the video that Jan Huckaby did of my snorkel (I do not dive) trip aboard the Woodwind. It was my best purchase on the island!!! My husband and I look at our video often and we are able to drift back to Bonaire. It captured everything we saw and then somethings we missed. We have plenty of pictures, but nothing can compare to our video!
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By Jason on Thursday, July 19, 2001 - 9:28 am: |
Dennis, For what its worth.. I know oen of the pro on island, Hendrickwho has been doing the underwater videios on island for a while and had been doing an excellant job. I can see the point of where it may not have an individual being the only focus... but the combination of shots of you, the rest of your group, the dive and the added stock footage makes for a real nice video you can show to folks and they will enjoy unlike the infamous "slide show of the vacation". What I have always like about Hendrick's is that he spend a lot of his free time updating the stock footage to even help you see stuff that you missed...
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