Greater Arnhem war museums

[pieter]

Filmed and edited by Pieter (wednesday, Dec. 19 2012)
(Being selfcritical I wasn't very happy with the blue tone in the film, because I could'nt get the white ballance and the iris right of that camera, which is a very good camera. People liked it, but I found it to be to blue grey. I would have liked it if it was sharper, more multi-colored and etc. My handicap and shortcoming sometimes is that I am to precise and to much focussed on the details. I am not easily pleased or satisfied with my own work. Do you recognise this, my dear fellow Forum members. You have your jobs, professions and hobbies. Everybody is an expert or enthousiastic caretaker of something)





To my surprise they have more German (Nazi) material than Allied material. Outside is a German tank, pieces of artillery and inside Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, Dutch NSB flags, armbands, and propaganda material. The Airborne Museum (also a war museum) nearby in Oosterbeek has more Allied (British and American material).

[karl]

Pieter

I was laughing with you of your personal requirements of camera performance....Once I also of this dilemma, for the camera lens is a poor mechanical excuse for the human eye. We then as humans must provide assistance performance we wish for.

My self also have suffered this situation, for correction, I have used various colour filters for compensation in as of also for effects. It is to the laws of the colour chart in relation to light temperature.

Then it is to intuition and thinking. We use various colours of sun glasses to penetrate such occurrences of fog/bright direct light/scattered light with polarized filters. Personally, I do not like any thing between the lens and the subject matter. But, we must at times make use of what works.

But to the subject at hand: I like your manner of illustrative camera work in detail retention of the subject: Beechcraft.

Those are excellent machines with very good characteristics in flight. They are rugged as depicted by your camera work. Although of present, rather primitive, but non the less, very effective with good power reserves..

In the subject of war museum artifacts. Yours is also of many of interest in our war time machines and equipment. For of the Englandern in as for as also the Russians are digging up our used up crashed machines for restoration and display...

It is of mystery to my self for why this interest. For the uniforms, machines of war, and weapons, were all developed for the specific purpose of their time to be used in prevailing conditions of the time. Now, they are useless and simply junk.

A time of long time past of defeat of our former government of embarrassment to us as survivors. In as of the record of our former and present military, has not won a war in over 300 hundred years. This in self is not a very commendable record in any books of any nation.

What would be more commendable is, the display of the weapons and equipment of the Allies and their military. For they beat our former government to tiny bits of junk. In this manner, they are the superior.

Karl

[pieter]

Karl,

Again, an exellent reply and you are right to a certain point ofcourse. That you was laughing with me about my personal requirements of camera performance is logical. Because my irritation with myself and lack of experiance with that new camera was indeed very laughable. I have a sublte and mellow kind of selfmockery to survive in this job, and that is to amuse myself about myself, looking back at my own mistakes and irritations. This camera was a newer model of an old HD Panasonic camera with a lot of tools. Before this I was a photographer, and I have to learn myself to think in moving images and in TV camera work, which is different than photocamera work. I often switch between the digital display and the old fashionate videocamera Viewfinder. I look at the digital display for the color and at the viewfinder for sharpness and composition.

Karl, I use filters on the tv/viceocamera a lot for compensation in as of also for effects. Digital video camera digital processed filters are different than our old SLR- colorfilters of the good old analogue years. They have a slightly different approach.
I used filters and the iris and always work manualy in staid of autmotic, because I liketo use my own presets and settings.

This is the camera I work with


In tv camerawork sharpness and the brightness of the image is nearly more important than the colors, because in my environment with a lot of rain and often grey weather, you have to get the light right. Often I have to use lights I have brought with me, to put on the camera.

LED Camcorder Video Camera Light

Karl, you are right that at time we have to make use of what works. I don't like to work with the automatic function, but sometimes at press conferences or when very quick camera action is required I do use the automatic film function. I dislike it, but do use it every now and then.
Because I have become faster in manual working, I sometimes can use my manual handled camera in fast situations. But at chaotic or extreme speed situations I use automatic. For instance when you have to compete for space with other cameramen or have to run from one place to another to be in time. Then I leave my tripot to my colleage and film from my shoulder, hoping for a steady shot. We often do interviews and covershots from tripots to get steady shots.

A TV-camera tripot


Karl, I love cultural, historical, city architecture, press conference related, sport events and crowded halls or celebrations to film, because you then can get good interviews (if you have a good interviewer with you. I am not a camio. I film people talking and environments these people are in. The subject and the interviewer) The illustrative camera work in detail my have to do with my background as drawer, painter and photographer and Desk Top Publisher in the past. I like to take time to film something good, and that is why I often like working in a team with a presenter/interviewer who takes time for a subject. (So that you can make a beautiful and interesting newsitem.)
I don't know much about the Beechcraft as a machine, but it was sure nice to film the plane. The Museum was nice to film anyway. It is photogenetic a good film subject.
Not only the British and the Russians are digging up your used up crashed machines for restoration and display, also Americans are interested in German war materials, from Luger officer pistols, to rifles, machine guns, Nazi porcelain, Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS uniforms, German tanks, artillery, planes and etc. You have some crazy war enthousiasts all over the West. I even heard some guys say the German uniforms were nicer then the allied. They were more tight, strict, they like the dangerous look or the shock effect of the Nazi militairy uniforms. Look at some of the most bizar and crazy stars of the pop history. Some of them walked dressed in SS-unfiroms to shock people. Sid Vicious the British Punk rock star from the Sex Pistols walked around in a Nazi t-shirt together with his crazy American jewish groupie grilfriend Nancy Spungen.

So for me this interest of Non-Germans and Non-Austrians for Nazi uniforms and weapons is no mystery. I don't think the German uniforms, machines of war, and weapons are useless, because they have an historical and technological value as examples of great mechanical and technological achievements of their time. They were used for the wrong reason in my opion, but they were superior for years over the allied weapons. Due to the stupidity (thank god) of Führer Adolf Hitler and the high command of the Wehrmacht (Hitlers nodding donkey's) the Nazi's lost the war, not thank to their superior weapons. Because we simply have to admid that they were superior.

Cheers,
Pieter

[karl]

Pieter

Thank you for your very descriptive manner you must work with in your profession. I now understand better the conditions you must work under for results... The Panasonic camera with LED lighting is very impressive indeed so...Very state of art, and rightly so in needs, for yours is a very competitive profession...

The use of automatic versus manual in camera light function is understandable in situations of time and stress.

Whilst inspection of your professional grade equipment, I was to look at my old Canon EOS-1 and laugh a bit....It has the 28-90 MM zoom lens and for my work, is very sufficient. High detail is what I use and in this setting, it will provide 92 exposure capture on one chip. Whilst in Seattle area, the batteries begin to show their age, and was to replace them with cost of $100 per battery. They {2} were manufactured in China but identical to original and performance is identical in use but with a better rating...

I would suppose my self as being some what over progressive in dismissing the old to be replaced with new. I understand what you have described of others locating our old war time weapons and equipment for reasons of museum displays.

I was to remember whilst in my required military duty, we were using still the old MG 42 on our vehicles. Even though we used the American M1 rifle.

www.vincelewis.net/mg42.html

The above weapon was {Machinengewehr 42} was/is a very high rate of fire weapon. Much dependant upon factors of weight of installed bolt for it was a recoil operated weapon with muzzle end mechanism to assist. These weapons were fire rate controlled by the weight of the bolt, and if the bolt head {roller locked} was clean, it was a very real consumer of ammunition. They were easy to maintain with easy swing out barrel change over. With the roller lock bolt head, it was not necessary to set head space for the roller lock system compensated that function.

Karl