I was at the PX yesterday with my son and his friend and they have
the Linksys Wireless G cameras for sale that and they are only 47 and change.
Obviously the price has come down.
Stewart
At 03:04 PM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
They look very similar to the Linksys cameras I have already looked
at
They look very similar to the Linksys cameras I have already looked
at. I will need to do a lot of research on this. I will already be
spending a lot of money for the wedding (Father of the bride) and
just had to shell out for a new laptop!
Maybe this recession fix they are proposing will he
Just wondering what you thought about the cameras I recommended. It
sounds like you really do not want to spend any money on them and that
is OK.
The $186 Panasonic BL-C111A MPEG-4 Network Camera is a wired unit that
can pan & zoom via remote user input so if they don't like what they are
lo
Long standing resentment is evident in my response. My wife and I
have been married 27 years. Her family has visited us only a handful
of times and since we moved from the north never.
However they travel in winter all the time to see his children (Both
were married and lost their spouses so
It's REALLY far to drive, and air fares are high, so I wouldn't call
them lazy, but I don't know your in-laws.
Can't you sell travel with weather? Isn't it still winter in northern
Ontario? ;-D It wasn't all that warm when we went to the Ontario
provincial ag. expo. in the summer a few year
>Has nothing to do with servers. The issue is human behavior. Many folks
>don't have e-mail. Many folks refuse to use e-mail. Many folks have
>e-mail but only check it once a week or less.
Looks like a fine topic for a sermon.
***
Even professionals. I have a bear of a time getting timely responses
from fellow clergy who only periodically check email.
Stewart
At 10:57 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
Has nothing to do with servers. The issue is human behavior. Many
folks don't have e-mail. Many folks refuse to use e-mail.
You got it!!!
Stewart
At 10:52 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
Well why can't you attempt the live feed and burn a DVD? You can
apologize in advance that you don't think it will work but you are
willing to try- it if they are willing to miss the ceremony first run.
If it works you look good because
My Panasonic is a DV cam, and has firewire out.
Getting new notebook dual core 1.8 AMD.
Up speed at church is 450 kbs (I tested)
Their down speed is 1.5 mps
Stewart
At 08:52 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
We've used camcorders--Canon Elura and Canon Optura--and an iSight
camera, with PowerMac/iBo
Has nothing to do with servers. The issue is human behavior. Many folks don't
have e-mail. Many folks refuse to use e-mail. Many folks have e-mail but only
check it once a week or less.
Fred Holmes
At 11:00 AM 1/18/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>>If the Washington beltway area is the "shallow So
Well why can't you attempt the live feed and burn a DVD? You can
apologize in advance that you don't think it will work but you are
willing to try- it if they are willing to miss the ceremony first run.
If it works you look good because you thought it wouldn't. If it
fails you told them so and F
Rev Marshall,
This may be a blessing, remember that song "Some of God's greatest gifts
are unanswered prayers." They would probably be a bother if they did
come, so here is my solution.
The $186 Panasonic BL-C111A MPEG-4 Network Camera is a wired unit that
can pan & zoom via remote user inp
>If the Washington beltway area is the "shallow South," my northern
>Virginia (Annandale) area Episcopal church can't reliably contact all (by
>a wide margin) of its members via e-mail either.
So lets see your server logs and figure out what's up.
**
We've used camcorders--Canon Elura and Canon Optura--and an iSight
camera, with PowerMac/iBook/MacBook to long-distance video messaging
using iChat. Analog video cams work OK, just not as well as DV cams. At
one meeting the other people were in San Francisco and we were in
Wilmington, Delaware
If the Washington beltway area is the "shallow South," my northern Virginia
(Annandale) area Episcopal church can't reliably contact all (by a wide margin)
of its members via e-mail either.
Fred Holmes
At 10:07 AM 1/18/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
>I wont say that my congregation is a bun
We have one. Remember pastor is the resident techy. (I installed
most of the infrastructure.)
That is not my worry it is all the other stuff and making sure it
works and keeping it going. I will be a little busy during the
wedding so I will not be able to tend to the electronic end.
My fe
I wont say that my congregation is a bunch of Luddites, but age
militates against it. We cannot rely on Email to contact all the
members, if that tells you anything.
Remember I am in the deep south which tends to be many years behind
on the technology scale.
Stewart
At 08:40 AM 1/18/2008,
>Just getting a video projector working with a laptop usually leaves the
>audience waiting while the presentation host and presenter fiddle
>aimlessly with their respective equipment In your case, I doubt the
>wedding will wait.
Recent model video projectors are a lot better. I just got some E
I have had very few problems getting them to work.
Stewart
At 08:48 AM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
Recent model video projectors are a lot better. I just got some Epsons
and was surprised at how easy they were to use.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL
>No one in my congregation has a Mac laptop (I have one member
>that has Mac's all desktop units)
With an overall market share pushing 10% and an even bigger chunk of the
laptop market (I think it is around 16%) I'm amazed that no one in your
congregation has a Mac laptop. Maybe they are k
Many of our video projects are weddings, so I keep on top of this. The
biggest problem isn't getting the audio & video mixed ($), it's the
internet connection. Few churches have a wireless network handy.
I hate to travel too (and it's no small expense for some people), and
I hate pomp and circumst
Just make sure you start setting everything up on both ends and test
long in advance of the wedding. What can go wrong, will go wrong when
you are working with a system that depends on multiple elements working
together that none of you, on either end, are familiar with.
Just getting a video
Tom has more to do with unavailability.
No one in my congregation has a Mac laptop (I have one member
that has Mac's all desktop units)
I don't know anyone with a Mac laptop so I have to make do with what I have.
What I was thinking about doing though is to get a firewire card for
my la
>Not going to happen, thanks for the advice though.
It is interesting how much pain some people are willing to suffer to
maintain their fealty to Bill Gates & Co. What were we posting the other
day about religion?
* ==> Q
Not going to happen, thanks for the advice though.
Stewart
At 06:43 PM 1/17/2008, you wrote:
>For better picture quality and light sensitivity, for the web cam you
>could substitute a digital or analog video camera, possibly a video
>capture card or other interface device and ICQ or Netmeeting
>For better picture quality and light sensitivity, for the web cam you
>could substitute a digital or analog video camera, possibly a video
>capture card or other interface device and ICQ or Netmeeting etc
Apple's iChat works with FireWire cameras. The best video cameras use
FireWire so that w
An interesting project and capability though. Companies do it all the
time with expensive specialized equipment... I'd like to have that
capability using lesser tech myself .
I'll be curious to know if you work out something...
db
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
That sounds almost like what I w
That sounds almost like what I will need.
I am aware of the limitations this will be an almost type of
setup. There is no way with my limited budget etc. to be able to set
up and broadcast a movie quality cam of the event. (No matter what
they show in the movies)
I plan on recording it and
For better picture quality and light sensitivity, for the web cam you
could substitute a digital or analog video camera, possibly a video
capture card or other interface device and ICQ or Netmeeting etc but, it
would still not be a full screen image and it would probably be
realistically too co
That I am very aware of.
However the church will be well lit, not dark.
Stewart
At 03:31 PM 1/17/2008, you wrote:
I don't think you will find a web cam that will give you a decent wide
angle shot in the lighting you are likely to have. They really are
designed for more intimate purposes - we
I don't think you will find a web cam that will give you a decent wide
angle shot in the lighting you are likely to have. They really are
designed for more intimate purposes - web chats, etc., not live event
feeds.
Matthew
On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
OK to
OK to all you gadget gurus out there.
My daughter is getting married this fall.
My in-laws (Most of my wife's family actually) live in the northern
reaches of Ontario and are showing a reluctance to traveling this far
south. They wondered if I their techhy son-in-law could set up a
laptop wi
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