Riding with Class 31, 31108, and Test Canon FS100 camera

I managed to get hold of a 'new' video camera just in time to use on the sunday of the South Devon Railway Diesel Gala.

So, here is a video taken whilst riding with 31108, along line from Buckfastleigh and back.

Now, I have 30 days in which to try out this camera, and I am wondering whether I really need this one, or if there is anything, in the same price range, that could do a better job.
The vid cam is a Canon FS100, quite a smart, neat and compact camera, easy to hold and comfortable to use.

I used BOTH of my video cameras over this weekend, but decided to just do a video using this one.

My other camera uses MiniDV tapes, whereas the Canon puts it straight to SD Card.

Please, let me know what you think of the overall quality, etc as I really want a camera that I can take footage and maybe turn into a DVD!!

Cheers for now,

Glenn

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Class
• 31
• 31108
• South
• Devon
• Railway
• Diesel
• Gala
• Camera
• Canon
• FS100
• test
• review
• video

[poweroffocus]

I have samsung R50 with 1.73 GHz and 2 GB of RAM and it also has microsoft office and window media player. I cannot even get the window media player to run at all when I try to edit the footage. Any advice. I closed all programs. System is reported as in healthy condition. It's capacity is 48. Now has about 30 G space. Any advice?

[jiffyman]

Unfortunately not, I am not that technically minded.

Hopefully someone reading this will be able to help..

[kuyakev]

nice..hey how long did u have to wait until ur vid was available in high quality on youtube?

[jiffyman]

All depends on how busy youtube is.

Sometimes, depending on size of vid, only takes about 10 minutes, then another time I got bored waiting so went to bed!!

Was there in the morning though

[jiffyman]

This video was taken with the Canon, aswell as the 'comparison' video.

The others were all taken with Sony MiniDV cams, but when put into Windows Movie Player at high quality of 2gb per hour, then compressed to just below the youtube 100mb limit.

I did use Pinnacle Studio for a couple of the videos though..

Hope this helps

[jiffyman]

Cheers, thank you very much!!

As you can see by my other vid on here, i wasnt quite taken with this camera so its going back!!

Will look into getting another one though!!

Cheers for now!

[348Silva]

Yes, I have one, the same as they show here.

Theres a screw on the camera ,where can atach

the piece of the tripod, and adapt at tripod, is very easy to made.

[nickdalby]

Me and my old man put the bodywork right on this in 2007... He passed away in September that year having just finished repairing 31 162... RIP Dad. It's good to see it out running!

[llamov]

Nice video. I'm considering one of these cameras. Was your camera hand held or mounted on a tripod?

Larry

[intertr0ns]

great quality on this. I think I like the sound of the class 31 out of all the diesel engines

[TrainBusJaguar]

Great video, some nice thrash.

[TrainBusJaguar]

The video files might have recorded in .MOV (Apple Quicktime) format. You need to convert them to a Microsoft recognised format (.AVI, .WMV, etc...). Google 'MP4cam2AVI', and you'll find a free video converter that's easy to use. Hope this helps!