Trains In Tacoma With Panasonic's HC-X2
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- In August of 2023, I rented Panasonic's HC-X2 Camcorder from Lenrentals.com to see how I liked filming trains with it. I filmed a number of trains around Tacoma, WA with the camcorder, so I thought I'd make a video of them.
The only adjustment I made to the footage was color grading. No image stabilization in post, no audio adjustments. I did this so you could see what the footage really sounds like and looks like coming from this camcorder.
What do yall think?
I have just discovered Tacoma Train RUclips and am really enjoying it haha
Haha well you're in the right place for sure 😅😅
Thanks for making this video! As a railfan who is considering buying the HC-X2, I found this very helpful. Cool shots!
Glad i could help you out with your big decision!
Very impressed. Video quality is phenomenal. Keep it up!
Thank you very much!
Looks realistic!
Haha that's the goal!
@@West_Cascade_Railif it was, you definitely succeeded it!
lovelyyyyyyyyyy
Thank you!
WELCOME
The camera has a very good focus, and undoubtedly, the footage it delivers is beautiful. However, it seems to struggle quite a bit (without the stabilizer) with the movements and vibrations caused by the train. Aside from that, the video is superb!
I completely agree with you. The in camera stabilization was actually on, I just didn't put a stabilizer on it in post.
Nice to see some familiar territory. Very different, though, than it was when our family moved away in 1983. The Milwaukee Road had just left the West where the Amtrak station by Tacoma Dome is. The concrete bridge was a single track wood trestle. Weyerhauser was actually owner of that track in 1983. The track only went up the hill to the left and the connecting track from the station to the former Northern Pacific line through South Tacoma's "Nalley Valley" wasn't there either.
@@stephensaasen8589sure wish I could have seen those days....
@@West_Cascade_Rail they truly were something. My dad's cousin used to work for Weyerhauser. He was able to arrange a couple of visits to ride the train when Chehalis Western ran the log trains. All the log bunk cars were purchased from the Milwaukee Road in 1980 after the Embargo of Lines West. They were built in the shops at Milwaukee. If memory serves me, I think the cars were built from the first run of Pullman Standard 40ft PS-1 steel boxcars. They were converted to flat cars with log bunks. Very unique cars. Burlington Northern also had some of their own unique cars too but Weyerhauser had plenty with the several hundred they got out of the Milwaukee deal. Many of the Milwaukee heralds stayed on the bridges during the CWWR years.
What settings have you set on the camera? Could you send them to me? I still have a few problems and don't have the perfect video yet.