Presented for your perusal - The contents of the footaging bag I can sometimes be arsed to take with me when I ride.

Presented for your perusal - The contents of the footaging bag I can sometimes be arsed to take with me when I ride. Sometimes, when I’m feeling particularly spontaneous, I do not take the bag, I just put on the shinpads and go and ride. Other times I will go and ride WITHOUT shinpads. This sort of occasion tends to arise when I have gone to work on my bike and I fancy going out on my bike sooner rather than later. Anyway, I digress. On with this exciting piece of informative cyber journalism. I will now take you on a virtual tour of the inside of CLIVE. Are you ready? Then lets go. Into CLIVE. For the short of brain, the numbers below correspond to the numbers in the picture.

1. Canon XM1 - Purchased off Ratty for £500, best money ever spent. Lovely looking footage in all but low light conditions and a pretty good array of manual settings.
2. Lens Hood from the above camera. Could have left it on and had to write less, I didn’t and now I pay the price.
3. Bit of paper to set white balance off when H Man’s chest isn’t available.
4. Bike lock for locking tripod to something if camera is left on tripod to record every trick done at a spot. Once bitten by a trio of ASBOs twice shy.
5. Supply of Mini DV tapes to ensure that nothing is missed.
6. Big battery to knacker your arm when someone is incapable of pulling a trick.
7. Small battery (never charged).
8. Lens pen to clean the various lenses.
9. Raynox 0.3 Wide Angle Lens. Seems good to me and I can’t imagine paying £600 for a death lens.
10. Shinpads. Quite, quite, lethal. Double as smelling salts in the event of a head injury.
11. Wax. For making smooth the harsh brick ledges of Tyne and Wear. Also known as double, triple, and turtle waxa.
12. CLIVE. A freebie off my housemate Tom after he got a new one. Seems like a good bag with many compartments for various implements.
13. An earplug which just happened to be on the bed. Essential for the working man who sleeps next door to the slacking fury wanking man.
14. Camera case, came with the second Hi8 camera after the roosters taxed the first one (see above). Does the job.
15. Haridas’ tripod. Borrowed for approximately 1 year.
16. Tripod attacher. Not really too much to say about that.

I edit with Premiere and AfterFX on a PC with 0.57 Terrabytes of hard drive and 1Gb of RAM. It has an AMD Sempron 2800 1.61GHz processor, whatever that means. Doubt it’s enough to make massive geeks mess their kecks but it seems to work fine for me.

Well I hope that learned you good. If you only take one thing away from this then please let it be that Tom Bright fury wanks at 80 decibels.

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