Hi guy, this week an italian guy sent me some kind of plastic that can be used for making the camera bracket. Its not so hard to work it but it is needed a lot of work to try to have a good setup.
Infact I spent about 8hrs trying to find a good one and yesturday I went for a test. But the bracket didn t hold enough. The problem is that I had used a short screw and today I will re try with a 1cm bigger.
here is a shoot on a barracuda at 5mtr+ and infact there are some waiting if shooting or not cos too far. The fish went out of spear
re seeing the video can say with what speed and only a very small vibration by the rubbers. I really like this gun mainly cos i feal comftable and can rely on it.
This morning I used to make another bracket maybe have chace to try it later on
Hi Emicmalta, this is great stuff. I once saw a documentary with somthing similar. This guy had a similar set up on his rifel, and when he fires he takes a snap shot of prey with a cross marking where he would have hit if he shot a real bullet. Obviously he has only pictures as trophies, conserving the animals, but he still has to go in on the pray like on a real killing spree.
keep up the work, looking forward to some more shotes from your system.
nice thing too, and dont worry as things are going it looks that there will be to change our guns to cameras :'(
yes ones I heared that. Its nice too because the technice will be the same but then the diference it that fish will be too much kind so will be more easy "to catch"
New bracket. This one is much better.
This is a fast dive yesturday after setting it up nearly at sunset.
My only problem is that the housing cango down only -15mtr so the videos wil be all in less then -15mtr since Im not with the one that Giovanni use
Xi kem tinzel fond u kem idum ? Nice man proset
prosit sbieh gew ed . :) :) ;)
Prosit siehbi vera idea tal-genn.
;D ;D ippruvajt inzomm in nifs jiena u narak tozz u sirt BLUE ;D ;D
video tal-genn prosit.
proset emic qbadtu imma almenu s sargu
This for you
Spitec.Once Imeet the the the end of the dive I ve remembered about you.
I found them for you. Go and enjoy my friend. I send you a pm. Sa a big one but coudnt hunt him cos was in a wrong place to go down.
here s the video. It end before I shoot cos the bttereies where drained up
buzu Do you think I didn t caught it??? Had we ever went and didn t got something to eat?? hahahha... It s a longfshoot and even the seabream looks small cs its over 4mtr from the spear and then I had switched off the camera. When I shoot, it went behined the stone
Perla Nothing special but sometimes we are more rlax and that very inportant and we increase our apnea But fish is caught do to experience and to know how the fish reacts . As I said, the camera housing goes down only 15mtr and this doesnt help me cos some times I m chasing fishand have to stop. Today I cased other 3 ice ones but had to stop cos think I was even on the -20mtr
Fabrizio in ok again. We need to go for a dive
Fishfinder when yuo want we can go, even in the shallow for me there i no problem mate
Ara naqa xi glieba dik !!! :o
Proset dward, kompli ibat !! ;)
Chris 8)
and here of a sea bream
Its really hard to make this recordings. I had also other 8 fish recorede but had problems due that im still a biginer in recording down there.
Yesturday I lost 3 fish and one of them was a grouper all cos of the camera and trying to record the event
ara fejnhom shabi prosit emic ma tajthomx xi tir jew?
faqajt 2 minnhom u aliex lahqu addewli ax kieku dahlu x hin kont diga isfel anke sa 3 facli taqbad. Id diferenza hi ax xhin jkunu sidewase kolla jkollom ajnejom lejk u b hekkliktar li taqbad 2 imma min quddiem amilta iktar min darba li taqbat 3 specjalment dawn li huma size sbieh
Prosit Emic! It's amazing just seeing these video clips let alone doing the real thing! Looking forward to seeing more :)
Awesome Ed, wow really impressed. Gives you a feel of being down there as well and what a fantastic way of promoting the sport for those who might be thinking of giving it a try. It's like you're flying seeing you bank and turn.
Very thrilling to watch, big thumbs up :)
Thanks Jonathan and Nick.
Its hard to dive with the camara on the gun cos there you increase the friction in the water and after doing all that dives going up and down you will feel the difference and makes you feel tired. But when you see the results its realy nice. Even for me, when I m back home I can see my mistakes and this helps me too but the most inportant is that I don t only shoot and take fish at home but have a recorded event that by passing time mits a nice thing to see.
The video of the baracudas is really amasing, pitty that the battery was flat but at least I had a short time to record something. This week it looks like having a lot of wind and this was necissary cos there wasn t so much fish activity this month. This wil bring up new current so lot of fish. Hope we heve somewhere where to make a dive so I try to get some more videos.
Skip, as you said this is a really promotion for our sport and I wish that others make the same as me, so we share our dive with whome cannot do it.
Nice work!!!. I particularly liked the last clip where you managed to also get your self in on the action as well. i suggest you get yourself a good editing package now so that you can add captions and music also. To avoid you losing time, and maybe fish you can start filming before your dive, then edit out what is not relevant. I use a programme called 'ULEAD' here but l am sure there are many to choose from.
I look forward to more clips from you in the near future. And by the way the visibility is fantastic!
Keep them comming!!!
dward u just cant imagine what pleasure it is to see your videos. I used to dive when young but ear problems made me stop.I still play in shallow waters for octopus. But you make me feel like i am down there again. WELL done mate keep them coming.
Quote from: twoutes on September 15, 2008, 07:55:21 CET
Nice work!!!. I particularly liked the last clip where you managed to also get your self in on the action as well. i suggest you get yourself a good editing package now so that you can add captions and music also. To avoid you losing time, and maybe fish you can start filming before your dive, then edit out what is not relevant. I use a programme called 'ULEAD' here but l am sure there are many to choose from.
I look forward to more clips from you in the near future. And by the way the visibility is fantastic!
Keep them comming!!!
Tks twoutes, infact I use the windows movie maker mand this helps me a lot. I did t put music cos its nice to hear the sea and than the bang og the gun. Also this helps me to know where I do mistakes.
As for the visibility, There I was at Ghar Lapsi known for its clear waters, and can say that for the last 4 years the visibility decresed a lot. Infact there are days that even cannot see the end of your gun. I don t know why but I think the quarry is involved in this. Infact I dont give more than 5 years and over there the sea bed will be dead
Quote from: shanook on September 15, 2008, 08:12:48 CET
dward u just cant imagine what pleasure it is to see your videos. I used to dive when young but ear problems made me stop.I still play in shallow waters for octopus. But you make me feel like i am down there again. WELL done mate keep them coming.
we also have to do one. We go with your boat, stop for some octopus and then we get some rizzi. Some maltese bread, olive oil and flixkun nbid.
Great videos emic. keep it up!
Prosit Dwardu, can't describe the feeling only by watching these amazing videos.
keep them coming ;D
Amazing videos emic, especially the one of the cudas and the last one. For a moment I felt that I was down there next to you!! Great work and keep them coming.
Quote from: EmicMalta on September 14, 2008, 16:30:19 CET
and here of a sea bream
Its really hard to make this recordings. I had also other 8 fish recorede but had problems due that im still a biginer in recording down there.
Yesturday I lost 3 fish and one of them was a grouper all cos of the camera and trying to record the event
small, :( leave them grow a bit...the scene with the cudas looks really nice!!! prosit
don t worry boss, its the portion for my sun. He s still 5 years and doesn t eat a 1kg Sea bream.
Nice clips Dward! Looking forward for more of these!!!
By the way, I also noted visibilty getting poorer over the years, not only in Lapsi but all around our coast. It used to be so good, and nowadays, its getting poorer and poorer.
wait and see after the smart city.
A friend of mine told me that when they had started to build the freeport, on the opposite side of the islans at Dwejra the visibility decresed a lot.
In some currents in front of the reverse of mose at Ghar Lapsi one can see all that dust in the water but no body said anything. When feediver caught that grouper, that day the see was like that and we could taste thedust (ix xahx) from our snokle. It look like somthing with the table water.
For the visibility this happens also when after some rain at gozo at the point opposite S Maria Bay of comino under the querry.
These are things that in the parlament they should rase up about the envirenment and not for us who go there and enjoy our free time.
Next time I be there and see these things I will take some pictures, but sure there are a lot of people who knows this.
Seahunter did you went diving yesturday after I saw you. At lapsi it was too rough and infact I could nt go in with all that current from SE
Great respect for you buddy (emic).
I was thinking of posting some new thread in this forum but as you said, I will mention it here. Its a pitty that there are so many spearos, (probably also fishermen, but that's not my line of sport), who are also members of this forum, but whom never participate into any event, or never post neither a phrase, or any photo of nice catches, and that's a pitty. It's not beneficial to the forum, not to be involved in it, or else to get only the news, and never post an opinion.
For sure there are other spearos whom in a particular occasion got a nice fish and took a picture, but whom never post it. The reasons for this may be various like:
* maybe one in shy, or maybe he is not so computer literate (so maybe they would also like to be more active)
* others are so keen and do not want to show any of the surroundings, not to disclose any details of their fishing grounds
* there is also the tendency amongst others, that the more professional you become, the less details you have to give, and post, so if you do not post any pictures, this means that you became the king of seas.
Come on, we do it as a sport in a nice friendly environment, and if you are mature and responsible, join in, and say what you want to say.
I am also sure that there are others saying 'Dan kemm ihobb jidher??', but I say well done emic.This is a very nice an positive side of you, and I admire you for you capabilities, dedication, a time spent doing what you love to do. Keep it up, and once again well done.
When I started I use to go normally on sundays, while my dad was fishing with his small boat I use to go for octopus. Thn once he found a speargun, bought a new spear and started up. When I was 16 I bought a new gun, I remember an esclapese still in well use, and from then I started up. Then Simon G had made a competion which I took place in it where still I was a beginer, but I remember that we had the biggest octopus catch. That day there was a guy from Zurrieq (Franco) and told me that I was doing mistakes, first I needed an apnea suit and so on. These where only few words he told me while he was giving me a lift home and starting getting my equipment, I started up. Infact he is a good friend of mine but we never had the opurtunity to dive together.
From that day I meet a lot of friends and real friend who try to help everyone as he can and cos of this I m not shy to show my catch.
A thing I don t like here in Malta is that there is no information about this sport, infact when I get out from the water I always hear the same words "you caught them with scuba diving???"
In Italy, its completelly different. They have the word apnea in their mouth and they help each other. As for places, yes there are guys who tells me not to show or not to put pictures cos they are afraid of taking them THEIR fish. Infact there are people that doesn t even took me once cos they are afraid of this, and on this I fall loughing...
Maybe you are 20 ,30 ,40 ,50 ,60 years old and you don t want to share your nice moments? Don t worry then, you take them with you under the sand
this is my reason I post here and in another forum in Italy where ther they help me with all my dificulties. A lot of spearos know about the gun with a mouted camera on it, but how many here can give advice on it? When I write somthing that means that I used it and know its performance, and for us who spend a lot of money in our hobby this is a thing that everyone should start doing
This is our sport and as baghira said:
Come on, we do it as a sport in a nice friendly environment, and if you are mature and responsible, join in, and say what you want to say.
and as for:
I am also sure that there are others saying 'Dan kemm ihobb jidher??' You know me well. If the roof is getting down I just move apart and keep walking relax ;) ;) ;) I don t care for who thinks Im like that cos that meens he doesn t know me. When there are guys with me a lot of times I gave them the chance to catch the fish and tell them my opinion. I don t care if I do the catch or my buddy, the inportant think is that we take our chance and enjoy the dive.
fuq il-vizibilta tal bahar xi nghidu al gageg tat-tonn meta jkun rih isfel f' M'Scala tkun qisek qed tghum fil-halib u barra hekk kemm ilhom hemm huma il-hut f'dawk in-nahiet qala daqqa ta harta kbira
Proset Emic and baghira and other free divers.I always liked your hobby and i wish one day i will give it a try.But got to much hobbies.....my wife will kill me if i tell her i am going to start diving....She always tell me...Int kollox j interesak????...and i always say yes.Keep it up guys and another thing...i am afraid of going down there :P
Kevin nahseb daqt tkeccik il barra l mara :p
Well done Emic, so you kept on trying with the bracket. Looks sturdy enough even while harpoon is fired. Thanks for leting us share the moments with you. Its like us being there. I think you got 2nd seabream film quite good, when you went in front of the camera with the fish. eh l-artist !!
Keep the good work going...........and the camera rolling.
yes infact this camera mount is much more steady. I ve also been contact to send 2 in Gibraltar. Hope to get also nice vid from there too
Quote from: EmicMalta on September 15, 2008, 12:26:18 CET
Seahunter did you went diving yesturday after I saw you. At lapsi it was too rough and infact I could nt go in with all that current from SE
No I didn`t. I wasn`t feeling very good, so I skipped it and with this kind of weather were 're having it seems that I have to wait longer to go for some diving.
here we have some more guys:
The first video im trying for a 3kg grouper but went in, infact I caught it about an hour after nd was with the torch cos used to go in each time I used to give a look. I had to take off the camere cos there was Sea breams but where a bit deep on aroud 20mtr and coudn t rist the camera.
with the second video the visibility was bad where there should be seen a dozen of nice sea bream from the surface.
Prosit Emic very nice videos and nice catch.
Welldone Dward !!! ;)
Chris 8)
Prosit Dward, Tal genn man xi darba nixtieq nigi wahda mijak uanke narak itela il hut nuhu buzz kiku
Very nice emic.Keep on your good work ;)
welldone Dward. ;D
yesturday it was full of sea bream. As I said I was planning to goin the shallow with the camera and the grouper and that 2 seabream changed my mind.
It was showing that the sea needed some brake even it had only made 2-3 days of some strong wind.
Tks guys 4 the compliments
NB. pls all of us lets try to help Skip by posting in proper language
prosit edward , cari u sbieh qed timpruvja man , jixraqlek ax tirsisti. :) :) :) :) :)
Job well done EMIC!! water looks clear and your movements seem to be of a Pro!
we all like those exciting last second moments..."come on...Shoot NOW!!... "
Keep on posting Emic! Keep up the Good Work!
great clips emic....great spot for your sport !!!
well done emic. you are better than a fishfinder. next time bring the camera and first we see the bottom before we start fsihing ;D ;D
buzu, If I filmed all the fish that I saw when I was with you then even you start coming in the water with me. Remember the ajs, that was a very nice dive, a one to remember, immagine if we had filmed it.
It was similar to this one but oviasly the no of ajs was not so big.
THIS VIDEO IS NOT MINE
Wow! I would go crazy for sure.
Where was that video taken Edward?? in a fishfarm ??
its a baitball bigboy. When you see fish jumping and we say its tuna, you heve to go under and there is a possible that they are ajs. We meet them at it as with ajs
wowwwwwwww man. You need to be under there with a harpoon and you will be there hero.
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL FOOTAGE
don t think that the fish is always so quite bigboy!!!
Hi ed
Its a pleasure for me to see, wonder those who have never been underwater.
If I may ask?
I was watching one of your u tube videos, and underneath there came some others, one named ajs snapped off, I saw it............What were the strange noises in it. Was the diver trying to attract the fish??
yes thats it, but doesn t meed that it works. It only works in certain kind of fishing, months, hour of the day .........
Better use the bubble system on certain fish. It atracts more, but before all these you have to be certain that you don t make any noises, don t let bubbles get out from suit, and from mask, position. Im not saying cos of you, but just to say it in general. These things help to get that little bit more, but 1st the basics is everything.
Also that noise is hard to make it cos need to achive a certain tone. Infact I do not make it so good and lot of times I scare fish instead of atracting them. But belive me, i don t care so much cos once you learnit, this will help
I never get fed up watching the videos..........when do we get a new one dward.
any ajs lately?
today 6 hrs for them but not even the small ones. For the camera for now no videos cos I lost it. Now will buy the Panasonic TZ7. HD video and can go down to -40mtr. The old one was just -15mtr so I was restricted when I have to dive with it only in shellow waters
I tought divers had no problems loosing things at sea :)
Keep them coming m8 cos they are really nice to watch. Maybe one day I will have my own from the ROV :)
Wow what can i say...awesome clips emic prosit!! Its great to see the pics of all the fish you & the other spero's get in the gallery don't get me wrong,but to actually see the dive and all the work involved in getting a good shot off was incredible! also just seeing everything in the 1st person perspective was cool..it's like watching a First person shooter game clip...medal of honour with a spear gun :)
Keep it up boss!
new camera installed.
http://vimeo.com/16316882
http://vimeo.com/16584858
http://vimeo.com/16317343
WOW Emic, you have some beautiful videos there...i will watch them over and over again.............very professional.
Very nice footage Emic and nice hits too :)
Well done. Great footage and shooting.
Love the picture quality....what camera are you using?
Gr8 vids Ed!! & the picture quality is great man !
10x 4 sharing king
yepp amazing shots there (pun intended) :)
Quote from: twoutes on November 08, 2010, 22:14:44 CET
Well done. Great footage and shooting.
Love the picture quality....what camera are you using?
thanks guys, this is an action cam from Oragon. Not so bad for an action cam. Mod is ATC9k. The only problem is that it goes only to -20mtr (but already tried it with a shoot at -23mtr) :-\
Thanks...looks like a neat unit.
nice videos, cerna jew denci issa jonqos
Impressive :) Very nice footage.
i was actually holding my breath! whats left of it that is! :D
wow what a clear picture.
I just watched half a video and I have to go....
Will watch again when I come back.....
Great videos and very good quality, well done mate. I am really looking forward for more videos :)
I like the picture quality.
There are some other videos but I think it was another camera right!
I did a quick search about this camera, and it loooks really made for this purpose, and includes attachments...
This model is quite expensive found it at 239stg but the piture is very nice in HD I assume.
There were other models still 20meters deep and very small in size and were very reasonable priced like 70stg.
to get this video, the camera was mount on the Marlin 105 and even I had the 125 attached with the plancetta I taught that with the 105 will come in range enough to shoot didn t wanted to aproce. Then got the 125 and with the 1st dive it was already in the line.
http://vimeo.com/18343853
will upload more videos very soon
Prosit Boss!! spiccajt nitkellem mal monitor u niddaj f'qalbi minnflokok :) !!! "ejja..ejja..ersaq iktar..ejja..u iz Z***!"
ara naqa x tahseb MartinB. Hekk ahjar nahseb ux? ;) Hawn kien adu kif iccaratli wiehed u dahal fl alka. Kellu ticrita kien fija iktar min 4 pulzieri kif jider fil video
Quote from: EmicMalta on January 01, 2011, 22:55:44 CET
ara naqa x tahseb MartinB. Hekk ahjar nahseb ux? ;) Hawn kien adu kif iccaratli wiehed u dahal fl alka. Kellu ticrita kien fija iktar min 4 pulzieri kif jider fil video
:D :)
well done for the dentex and a bigger well done for the footage, the quality is superb :) how deep was that?
I ve found them in shellow waters. Depth was between 12 and 18mtrs, but this morning I foun a guy with the nets on the place and you can immagine what happen. No fish at all.... all scared
Vera bomba l-kwalita tal-video. X'camera tuza Ed?
Quote from: Arti2 on January 03, 2011, 09:51:20 CET
Vera bomba l-kwalita tal-video. X'camera tuza Ed?
Atc9k
prosit edward tal film u ta denci ukoll.
Quote from: fabrizioviper on January 03, 2011, 16:55:54 CET
prosit edward tal film u ta denci ukoll.
dak bis sahha ta siehbek qbadtu ax wehilt nparla mijaw
veru prosit dward.
Hadt veru pjacir narahom dawn iz zewg videos.
L-ewwel wiehed veru jaghti idea cara ta dak li nkunu ghaddejjin minnu hemm taht, u dik l-emozzjoni..
Tat tieni wiehed prosit tassew tal-qabda.
qtajtli nifsi dward. ghid dan meta ser jitla!
Quote from: caldaland on January 03, 2011, 23:50:24 CET
qtajtli nifsi dward. ghid dan meta ser jitla!
id dnieci hekk, ghalekk ma tridx titlef rasek ax jibqa jittamak u iebes hafna biex jigi at tir u jekk jigi darba biss jatik cans. L ahjar tara kif thossok u xhin sar il hin tla, jekk andu jkun tal qbied jaqbad u jigi
Prosit Emic very professional.
http://vimeo.com/18421605
Isma tista thalli denci ta dward !!! ahna irridu niklu ukoll :)
prosit ,nistennew video b xi cerna
Quote from: ggantno1 on January 05, 2011, 13:06:45 CET
Isma tista thalli denci ta dward !!! ahna irridu niklu ukoll :)
mix problema, cempilli u ntik 1
Quote from: charlie on January 05, 2011, 15:48:17 CET
prosit ,nistennew video b xi cerna
ac crien xi ftit problema ax minhabba il housing sa 20mtr ma nissograx naghmel aguati fil fond, ax jekk narahha u tkun iktar fond dak il hin mhux il cam biss ninsa
Another video for this week
http://vimeo.com/18653798
well done my friend ...keep them coming ;)
also gr8 picture quality
Prosit siehbi! :)
wow nice! prosit!
http://vimeo.com/18757896