Open letter to Voice Of Rally/Colin Clark

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Originally Posted by MSP AU

I have GoPro, Contour, Drift and VIO POV.HD plus several older cams but never had any luck with Contour. Have you managed to get the iphone app or gps to work continuously? I hire them, so the only cameras I'll buy are the GoPro and Drift. Not the best cameras for everything, but reliable. That first video in post number one looks like the VIO POV.HD, which is great for capturing the right exposure but has been buggy from delivery. Five of the seven cameras I have purchased went back!

Sorry to get off topic.. Nice to hear that everyone has issues with WRC video, and I thought it was just me. Cannot get it to play smoothly on anything.

As for iRally, video play smooth if the network setting is turned off and app is only using the 3G network to load.

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I've never tried Contour myself and I've never heard about problems with it.

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Originally Posted by SubaruNorway

I've never tried Contour myself and I've never heard about problems with it.

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First one went back because it had faulty micro sd slot, second had strange colour cast, third doesn't stay connected with iphone and requires restarting iphone every time it fails. And GPS just doesn't work period. Could be a bad batch, or something to do with my area, but not the kind of camera you can hire to customers unless you want to stay on the phone to them for the week.. sorry back on topic, yes WRC site is no good.

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

no need to do that...hire darkstar as advisor.

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hehe ;) i´m still sitting here waiting for a call from north one...it would of course be a dream come true to become a professional videofilmer.

but at first i must say thanks to all of you. i´m reallye very happy you all enjoy my videos, i´m always trying my best: finding new, spectacular spot´s and get footage from the best point of views. it´s also a lot of work before the rallye, watching onboards, talking to people about nice spots, studying maps etc. (you dont find nice places just by good luck, or at last it´s very rare).

about the onboard topic i must say, that most important thing to get a feeling for the speed is a wideangle lens in my opinion. thats what´s missing at that "hirvonencamonseat" position, otherwise its pretty good and my personal favourite at this years onboards. 2nd best is cam on the roof, it brings a good speedexperiense, but of course you dont see the driver´s work then. but it´s still ok...

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Originally Posted by darkstar

hehe ;) i´m still sitting here waiting for a call from north one...it would be a dream come true to become a professional videofilmer.

but at first i must say thanks to all of you. i´m reallye very happy you all enjoy my videos, i´m always trying my best: finding new, spectacular spot´s and get footage from the best point of views. it´s also a lot of work before the rallye, watching onboards, talking to people about nice spots, studying maps etc. (you dont find nice places just by good luck, or at last it´s very rare).

about the onboard topic i must say, that most important thing to get a feeling for the speed is a wideangle lens in my opinion. thats what´s missing at that "hirvonencamonseat" position, otherwise its pretty good and my personal favourite at this years onboards. 2nd best is cam on the roof, it brings a good speedexperiense, but of course you dont see the driver´s work then. but it´s still ok...

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why don't you make the first step...send them a tape with your footage and a cv and i think it would be hard for them to decline you an interview at least....

Yes! Do that, Darkstar!. Show them who is the master.

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

why don't you make the first step...send them a tape with your footage and a cv and i think it would be hard for them to decline you an interview at least....

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N.O.T, that's not how they work. It's more like they contact you, not the other way around.

Now this is what I've been told in the past about the cameramen on the WRC crew. They can do much better shots, etc. but the programme sets conditions they have to follow.

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Originally Posted by Franky

N.O.T, that's not how they work. It's more like they contact you, not the other way around.

Now this is what I've been told in the past about the cameramen on the WRC crew. They can do much better shots, etc. but the programme sets conditions they have to follow.

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I'd imagine if Darkstar was working for northone it'd go something like this

Now I'm sorry mate, we're going to have to let you go. You're just conveying too much of a sense of speed and showing the sport off too well for our liking. You just don't get that what this sport is about is standing at rubbish viewpoints and getting as much footage of the cars as possible, it doesn't matter whether the cars are going in a straight line or whether the footage looks boring, what we're really after is quantity, not quality and I'm sorry but we're going to have to let you go.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

I'd imagine if Darkstar was working for northone it'd go something like this

Now I'm sorry mate, we're going to have to let you go. You're just conveying too much of a sense of speed and showing the sport off too well for our liking. You just don't get that what this sport is about is standing at rubbish viewpoints and getting as much footage of the cars as possible, it doesn't matter whether the cars are going in a straight line or whether the footage looks boring, what we're really after is quantity, not quality and I'm sorry but we're going to have to let you go.

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Add to this;
"And theres too much good quality shots of the cars going sideways, etc and not enough looking at WRC's sponsers and all the banners that they litter the stages with"

:p

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Originally Posted by tfp

Add to this;
"And theres too much good quality shots of the cars going sideways, etc and not enough looking at WRC's sponsers and all the banners that they litter the stages with"

:p

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yes, that whole sideways thing has nothing to do with rallying.

I think their priority is to make more money and in their case better footage will make more people interested which will raise their profits, Darkstar has nothing to lose to send them a sample of his work. The worst case senario would be that they do not pay attention to it, but every other senario will benefit everyone from North-one to us rally fans.