I agree, Volker. The machine gun technique become possible at the
-80th with the cassette recorders.
Needs to be said.
Klas.
At 20:18 2012-01-23, you wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>even though the term itself sounds rather martial, I think that the
>"machine gun technique" is one essentially viable approach to nature
>recording. It leads to long time recordings of soundscapes which are
>valuable by themselves. If you serendipitously find some great
>single species recording in your hours of soundscapes that's even better.
>
>We live in an enormously lucky time where memory space is getting
>cheaper and cheaper and possible recording time is increasing.
>Some of you may remember the pre-digital times (pre 1980s), when all
>you had was reel to reel tape with a running time of 20 min at the
>best quality and recorders with ridiculous power consumption.
>
>So have fun "machine gunning"!
>
>Volker
>
>
> > <<My main technique is to set a rig and wait for the wildlife to come
> > close enough, but I get a lot of garbage that way. Photographers call
> > it the "polyphoto method">>
> >
> > I call it the machine gun technique. If you fire enough bullets you're
> > likely going to hit something. In cinema this is the shooting ratio, th=
e
> > amount of film shot compared to what makes the final cut. The
> truth is that many
> > of the people we think of as great photographers, great film makers, gr=
eat
> > composers, etc, don't necessarily start out with high ratios of great
> > material vs junk. But what they really are is great editors, so
> the audience
> > only gets to see the great results.
> >
> > Scott Fraser
> >
>
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