A big bee !
 

Here is a big bee that landed outside my window on a big stone water bowl (for the birds) captured on my HV10, I was going to try and move around to the front of it and get in real close to see if I could capture its compound eyes, but it flew away !! :(

This thing was massive (for the UK at least!) around 2 inches long, maybe it was the queen ?

You can see it cleaning the thing it uses to gather nectar (probuscis ?) and the inner part popping out to be cleaned. Handheld on auto-focus so a little wobbly.

It is 2 mg - Quicktime / H.264 codec.

clickety click >> http://www.filefactory.com/file/b8b5bb/

LOL - thats awesome! Lucky it didnt sting you. :) Pity we couldnt' see the native stream for your nice shots Lee. :)

I really hate FileFcatory- always have issues with IntelMacs....link wont work.

I couldn't find any other free hosting sites, do you know of any recommended ones ?

Native stream (well Apple intermediate codec anyhow) >> http://www.filefactory.com/file/2169c1/

Thanks Lee, I had to wait like 2 minutes before the "save as" box appeared- might be a Mac thing or browser- who knows??

That clip is awesome- the HV10 is really the best HDV cam dollar for dollar!
I hope they include "mic in" in their next version of it.

Thanks for posting.

Yep ! It takes a minute or so to pop up on my Mac as well (safari / OS X 10.4.6) ??? But to its credit 'Filefactory' is very very fast at sucking big files off your machine and onto its servers.

Here he is threatening me just before he flew off.


http://www.filefactory.com/file/a4a4d9/

Thanks Lee, very cool :) I'm thinking of selling my MVX3i to get one of these.

Why sell a perfectly good camcorder just to buy a flying insect ?

There's one in every crowd :P

Bada-bing! :)