Ideas that strike in the oddest places
Jan. 1st, 2016 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinisterporpoiseBecause I've been in a better mood, I decided to take up some hobby. Initially, I thought this should be some sort of crafting, but I realized that my poor coordination would not permit good quality items and baking is just too expensive for me right now. I decided to delve back into video gaming, specifically mobile gaming and see if I could make a few videos. (This may or may not have been driven by my housemate's incessant need to watch game videos.)
At some point, I decided I wanted to do more than screen recording, so I thought getting a digital camera with recording capability might be a good idea. I used some of the money my father gave me for Christmas and picked up the Jazz DV140 at Wal-Mart. Well, for playing around it works fine, but I've found out my Windows tablet and my cell phone have much better cameras, even with the front facing option. (It does not have very good reviews, but it does function as a camera.) In any case, it will still work fine for me to learn the basics of working with a digital camera, even if the highest resolution it can capture is 640 x 480.
For the moment, I don't know what to talk about. Since I've had more energy I've been turning to various projects, including advancing the e-book I was working on. (I may just give up on it on some point and put it on Google Play and Amazon. I don't have high hopes for it in the first place. it was an extension of what I did for Letters for My Sisters.
In any case, I took a shower this afternoon, and gave the problem of a decent tripod for my camera some thought. I hit upon the idea of using the housemate's music stand, an option which I had considered before. This stand caused me to think about the adjustable music stands that I had once use, and I remembered that I actually had one in a trumpet case. I took it out, tried shooting a video with it, and it worked just fine.
Now, it seems that if I want to record myself talking, I'll at least have that option until I can afford better equipment.
At some point, I decided I wanted to do more than screen recording, so I thought getting a digital camera with recording capability might be a good idea. I used some of the money my father gave me for Christmas and picked up the Jazz DV140 at Wal-Mart. Well, for playing around it works fine, but I've found out my Windows tablet and my cell phone have much better cameras, even with the front facing option. (It does not have very good reviews, but it does function as a camera.) In any case, it will still work fine for me to learn the basics of working with a digital camera, even if the highest resolution it can capture is 640 x 480.
For the moment, I don't know what to talk about. Since I've had more energy I've been turning to various projects, including advancing the e-book I was working on. (I may just give up on it on some point and put it on Google Play and Amazon. I don't have high hopes for it in the first place. it was an extension of what I did for Letters for My Sisters.
In any case, I took a shower this afternoon, and gave the problem of a decent tripod for my camera some thought. I hit upon the idea of using the housemate's music stand, an option which I had considered before. This stand caused me to think about the adjustable music stands that I had once use, and I remembered that I actually had one in a trumpet case. I took it out, tried shooting a video with it, and it worked just fine.
Now, it seems that if I want to record myself talking, I'll at least have that option until I can afford better equipment.
