I just got randomly recommended this video, so I watched, and enjoyed! I have always wanted to do this!! Like a bucket list item for me, ever since I saw Tom Scott launching garlic bread into space! I am from Adelaide, so will look this group up and see more!
I'm not sure how much AREG would love launching garlic bread as a payload - but they are amenable to members building their own payloads for launch on a balloon like this :)
@@DropTableAdventuresyes, much better technical and narrative quality than so many AR videos one sees these days. Curious about what kind of camera you were using, and I'm guessing you had some kind of steadicam as well. Good humour element too - loved the BDF formula HI!
So in terms of camera gear, the front-facing car shot was a GoPro 8 on a suction cup on the windscreen. The internal shots from the back of the car looking forward was another GoPro 8 mounted on the top of the cargo barrier. All of the shots from a first-person perspective were taken with a GoPro 11 - you can tell these shots because there's a little bit of fisheye distortion. All of these have amazingly good stabilisation purely in software (they actually see wider than what they shoot, and crop a moving window from it) as they have no moving parts due to... the kind of things you'd use a GoPro for. And being purely software based, given a decent recording in full sunlight, they actually do a better job than a hardware steadicam / gimbal because the physical parts in these have inertia and software doesn't. The static shots were taken on a Nikon Z Fc (basically a Nikon Z50 dressed up to look like an old Nikon FM from the 70s) with the 18-55 kit lens (you don't need much more zoom than that for video, you won't be able to hold it steady). You can tell because these shots have some depth of field, as opposed to everything being in focus on the GoPro. I was mostly standing in one spot, or sitting down, so the footage started off pretty good, then some minor stabilisation in Final Cut Pro just cleaned up what little camera shake was left. The shot of the ascending balloon used a bit of digital zoom which just tracked the balloon in shot (shoot in 4K to start with and you can crop it quite a bit before the quality becomes intolerable). A Rode VideoMicro greatly improves the audio and with the included furry cover, completely eliminates wind noise in the recorded audio - in the shot with Will talking about the previous launch that didn't go so well, he wasn't wearing a lapel mic - that was recorded from the camera.
AutoRX station on our balcony picked up some Graw DFM09 sondes on BoM's licensed frequencies. Naturally, we went "WTF" because at the time BoM had been launching Vaisala RS92 (maybe RS41 in some places - early days), and we were not aware that they were even considering anything else. But the thing is, the sondes tell you where they are (well that's one aspect of how they work) - and so we know where they were likely launched from. Somewhere round the Snowy Hydro Scheme. Scouring through some public documents, we found some reference to them doing sonde launches, but checking ACMA's database, they did not have a license for the frequency these sondes were being seen on - a frequency exclusively licensed to the Bureau of Meteorology... Not sure if they're still launching (haven't seen one in a long time) and haven't checked to see what they're licensed for now, so may well not be the case any more...
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Tracked the launch and watched the images in real time, was very cool to see! Congrats on the successful launch!
I just got randomly recommended this video, so I watched, and enjoyed!
I have always wanted to do this!! Like a bucket list item for me, ever since I saw Tom Scott launching garlic bread into space!
I am from Adelaide, so will look this group up and see more!
I'm not sure how much AREG would love launching garlic bread as a payload - but they are amenable to members building their own payloads for launch on a balloon like this :)
Good story, told well, and properly videoed and edited. A pleasure to watch. Congrats and happy 25th AREG!
Thanks for that, I'm happy you think I did a good job.
@@DropTableAdventuresyes, much better technical and narrative quality than so many AR videos one sees these days. Curious about what kind of camera you were using, and I'm guessing you had some kind of steadicam as well. Good humour element too - loved the BDF formula HI!
So in terms of camera gear, the front-facing car shot was a GoPro 8 on a suction cup on the windscreen. The internal shots from the back of the car looking forward was another GoPro 8 mounted on the top of the cargo barrier. All of the shots from a first-person perspective were taken with a GoPro 11 - you can tell these shots because there's a little bit of fisheye distortion. All of these have amazingly good stabilisation purely in software (they actually see wider than what they shoot, and crop a moving window from it) as they have no moving parts due to... the kind of things you'd use a GoPro for. And being purely software based, given a decent recording in full sunlight, they actually do a better job than a hardware steadicam / gimbal because the physical parts in these have inertia and software doesn't.
The static shots were taken on a Nikon Z Fc (basically a Nikon Z50 dressed up to look like an old Nikon FM from the 70s) with the 18-55 kit lens (you don't need much more zoom than that for video, you won't be able to hold it steady). You can tell because these shots have some depth of field, as opposed to everything being in focus on the GoPro. I was mostly standing in one spot, or sitting down, so the footage started off pretty good, then some minor stabilisation in Final Cut Pro just cleaned up what little camera shake was left. The shot of the ascending balloon used a bit of digital zoom which just tracked the balloon in shot (shoot in 4K to start with and you can crop it quite a bit before the quality becomes intolerable).
A Rode VideoMicro greatly improves the audio and with the included furry cover, completely eliminates wind noise in the recorded audio - in the shot with Will talking about the previous launch that didn't go so well, he wasn't wearing a lapel mic - that was recorded from the camera.
Happy 25th AREG!
Those were awesome images the balloon captured! And The BDF is further proof that electronics engineers love logarithms too much 😉
Always the logarithms, yes...
Alternative name for this channel: Logarithms and Landcruisers 🤣
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AutoRX station on our balcony picked up some Graw DFM09 sondes on BoM's licensed frequencies. Naturally, we went "WTF" because at the time BoM had been launching Vaisala RS92 (maybe RS41 in some places - early days), and we were not aware that they were even considering anything else. But the thing is, the sondes tell you where they are (well that's one aspect of how they work) - and so we know where they were likely launched from. Somewhere round the Snowy Hydro Scheme. Scouring through some public documents, we found some reference to them doing sonde launches, but checking ACMA's database, they did not have a license for the frequency these sondes were being seen on - a frequency exclusively licensed to the Bureau of Meteorology...
Not sure if they're still launching (haven't seen one in a long time) and haven't checked to see what they're licensed for now, so may well not be the case any more...
Southern Launch out of Port Lincoln springs to mind as well! They're actually licensed now, although possibly because of an email campaign from Mark!
Arnhem Space Center also seem to be launching on 400.6MHz and nothing in the ACMA RRL about that....