Lion ponderings

   The old rose house in Titanic was in Ojai, CA in the script.  The filming location was never given.  It was probably a movie set in Baja.  It would have been expensive to stage an existing house with all that stuff.  It wouldn't be a retirement destination. The vanwives baja saga was pretty bleak.  Lots of difficulty importing water, having stuff disappear, organizing construction labor, getting approved, navigating bad roads, finding reliable storage.  The quality of what they show getting built down there is pretty low.  They have to repeatedly change storage units as places constantly go out of business, end up with shady landlords, or the government just takes stuff.  It doesn't sound like they're going to finish it.    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Switching to a marginally better government,    While there were many videos of th...

 Lions have been to a great many fleet week air shows.  Most recently, it was a few hours of hookie from the day job with just the T4I & no tripod to document the F-35C. It appears that trip was using movie crop mode.     Previously, there was a walk all the way up Columbus Ave in 2016 with the full tripod & T4I.  The tripod definitely was more stable.  This one might have also used movie crop mode. A quick test showed the EOS RP's maximum stabilization to crop just a hair less than the T4I's full frame mode.  It has a 4k stabilization which crops down to roughly magic lantern level, but the jello is worthless. There is finally a slowly growing collection of F35-B footage on the tube, after many years of nothing but original test flight footage.  Helas, the camcorders they use have nowhere close to the color fidelity of a DSLR.  They're about as zoomed in as a lion can get, manely limited by the need to track the subject.  It's n...