Great stuff. Really cool to see all of that gear in operation. After googling it seems like it was common to abandon those dredgers. I really wish I could buy an old abandoned one and refurb it.
"HEY! Where do you think you're going with that gold bar?" "I'm... uh... saving it for parts?" "Okay. Move along." 20 years later: "Hi. Today I'm making my own gold grill with some scrap I found some time ago. Today, the statute of limitations ran out so..."
Heck I have a bunch of video from the same era shot with a "professional" camera (VX2000) that looks terrible now. Still trying to figure out what to do with that footage :-P
@@saveitforparts - Even regular TV looks bad now that I have HD and higher. I have some motorcycling footage from about 2002 that is truly awful quality. Digital video has come on leaps and bounds since.
Potato quality or not, this stuff is pretty interesting too see in motion! I'm surrounded by mines old and new at home, and a couple of historic sinter plants too that use to be here.
Weird technical questions, Why Digital over film or tape? I know that digital video was a thing but heavy limitations on card size and lacking sound which you mentioned. Film was more popular but was incovenient, video tape the same. What was your reasoning behind what gear you used vs that was at that time superior?
Technically it was a tape (MiniDV). In 2000-2004 or so, this was the latest and greatest thing the college had available. The library would loan out cameras to any students who wanted to play with one. You could also borrow Sony Mavica digital cameras that stored pictures on 3.5" floppy disks, those were fun. You had to carry a pocket full of disks since they could only store about 10 pictures at the highest quality. I think I actually have one of those in my basement somewhere (that I bought, not stolen from school). I should do a video on that!
Great stuff. Really cool to see all of that gear in operation. After googling it seems like it was common to abandon those dredgers. I really wish I could buy an old abandoned one and refurb it.
"HEY! Where do you think you're going with that gold bar?"
"I'm... uh... saving it for parts?"
"Okay. Move along."
20 years later: "Hi. Today I'm making my own gold grill with some scrap I found some time ago. Today, the statute of limitations ran out so..."
Interesting to see the difference in video quality between 2002 and 2022. Sometimes I forget how bad VHS/hi-8 was back then.
Heck I have a bunch of video from the same era shot with a "professional" camera (VX2000) that looks terrible now. Still trying to figure out what to do with that footage :-P
@@saveitforparts - Even regular TV looks bad now that I have HD and higher. I have some motorcycling footage from about 2002 that is truly awful quality. Digital video has come on leaps and bounds since.
You deserve more views & support.
Potato quality or not, this stuff is pretty interesting too see in motion! I'm surrounded by mines old and new at home, and a couple of historic sinter plants too that use to be here.
Cool footage!
Weird technical questions, Why Digital over film or tape?
I know that digital video was a thing but heavy limitations on card size and lacking sound which you mentioned.
Film was more popular but was incovenient, video tape the same.
What was your reasoning behind what gear you used vs that was at that time superior?
Technically it was a tape (MiniDV). In 2000-2004 or so, this was the latest and greatest thing the college had available. The library would loan out cameras to any students who wanted to play with one. You could also borrow Sony Mavica digital cameras that stored pictures on 3.5" floppy disks, those were fun. You had to carry a pocket full of disks since they could only store about 10 pictures at the highest quality. I think I actually have one of those in my basement somewhere (that I bought, not stolen from school). I should do a video on that!
Thank you for the upload.
Pretty neat!
Interesting upload. I wish I had more pictures and any video of my time at the geological field camp during the summer of 1993.
Whose that young guy? Nice try on the gold ingot he he...