@@nickporter8773 awesome, thanks. Glad you enjoyed it :-)

Thank you very much, really glad you enjoyed it. :-)

Awesome, thanks for the info and I love it when viewers take away great memories like that :-)

Good question, I think it depends what sort of things you like best. Hamburg and the port area had a lot of nautical things of interest, that was helped while we were there as there by a huge regatta that weekend, which made it all really interesting and obviously that won’t be there unless you’re lucky. Lubeck had some quite nice historic buildings, the gate the Rathaus etc. but it wasn’t all like that, some parts are quite modern but plenty to see on a day trip.

@@apntv thank you. If there wasn't a huge regatta that weekend, which city has more things to see?

@@NLMusique Hamburg is much bigger with more things to do, Lubeck certainly had enough charm for a day trip, especially if you like marzipan, it’s the speciality there. It’s actually a tough question, which one would we choose, we’ve been thinking about it for a couple of days can you come up with a simple answer.

Yeah, they ask you to leave them tied on to the hire boats and to be honest, I think a lot of hire boaters do need them :-) We saw a few people crush the fenders beyond repair. Unlike most, the Penichette 950e boats that we hire are all steel and aren’t so likely to break :-) We have done quite a bit of sailing and that’s a real no no. I hope you get to take off your bucket list, it’s a great adventure :-)

Many thanks and we are very glad you enjoyed it. Do let us know if you decide to take a similar adventure sometime. :-)

Wow, that’s a while ago, note they just started charging to go on the pier this year. Have a great time on your trip. :-)

Yes we did pass lots of young trees, I hadn’t realised they had to cut them down, so good to see they were replanted. It was a great trip, it’s a shame we didn’t have slightly better weather the day we went through The Avenue, I guess that looks spectacular in the sunlight. :)

That’s really cool, we had a great time. Do come back and let us know how you get on.

Probably on eBay or similar as they are an older model.

Thanks, we did not know that. :-)

Ah yes, thanks for your comments :-) you might like our recent canal boat video from The Netherlands where we do the More Beer beer tour in Amsterdam, that was fun. Glad you enjoyed our trip to Rotterdam.

It’s about 4 hours.

Thank you for your lovely comments and we are very pleased that it brought back good memories for you. We love to do these videos to remind ourselves of these trips. I wonder how much it has changed in 22 years?

Thank you for the feedback, it’s always useful getting other peoples observations and I think it proves how difficult it must be to build the perfect camera as everybody has slightly different requirements and ways of working. It irritated me initially that it did not record MP4 in camera, why? I could see no reason why not and yet over the years I got used to it and it’s not really bothered me much. The SD card lights is a good example, when I bought a Panasonic G80 camera it had a flashing red icon on screen to show you when recording and the flash rate was quite slow, so I would often look at the screen and think it wasn’t recording and in extreme cases hit the record button turning it off, I made my comments known and eventually that was changed in a firmware update. Just yesterday, for the first time in many, many years I had an SD card issue while recording, I always record onto two cards and I immediately spotted card 2 had a problem. The camera kept on recording and card 1 was fine, after the take, I was able to repair the card ok. I agree the colours can be confusing, like every battery charger on earth seems to have a different colour scheme for charging and charged, it’s a shame there is no standard. The HDMI socket can be a problem with large HDMI plugs, although those often come with thick and heavy HDMI cable which is not ideal anyway, the recess does help prevent strain on the socket but I tend to use thin cables with smaller plugs anyway, which are easier to fit, cause less strain, but you are absolutely right. You tend to have to pull the cable to remove them. Having come from a Panasonic PX 270 previously I find this menu an absolute joy and much easier to navigate, also much easier than my experience with Sony cameras, I guess it takes a while to get used to any menu. As always, there are a few irritations, not being able to switch audio from manual to auto while recording because you can only access it from the menu, as the layout does not allow for an extra physical switch, which again for me is a minor irritation and price point often dictates such compromises. I still haven’t done a great deal with VLOG, getting correct exposure is very important to avoid noise so that might be something you would get better results from as you get used to it and experiment a little. Genlock would be lovely I agree. I am often using multiple cameras in a live set up, again I’m sure it’s all down to cost. Over five years on and this is still my favourite camcorder, I’ve got used to its quirks and haven’t found anything I want to replace it with so far. I’ve used the XF350s but never had the opportunity to try 650, I hear good things from some people though as you say it is more expensive, less now than when it first came out when it was double the price. I’m not a huge fan of Canon products generally, but I know a lot of people like this one and at the end of the day it’s all about what fits your budget and works best for you. again it’s good to get other peoples take on using it. :)

Indeed, we love you Jason, you will be sorely missed.

Thank you, I’m glad you found it useful :-)

Hi, I am not quite sure what you mean, where are you seeing the playout lagging and what do you mean exactly? Do you mean in camera or on your computer?

As always these things depend totally on your use case, workflow and how you like to work and the kit you feel comfortable with. If you feel more comfortable with a G9 then it would also be good. A quick Google bought up a piece from The Slanted Lens on using it for wildlife which you might also find interesting. I haven’t used the 350 for wildlife work myself but I would say the following, it has a great zoom range without having to swap lenses, it can prerecord so you don’t miss the action when you press record, it has IR mode, but I think you would need some IR lighting to make good use of that. The 350 form factor works well for me without having to have lots of addons hanging off the smaller DSLM body but it’s a matter of choice I guess. We run a Facebook group if you wish to join, I think we have users in there doing similar work. At the end of the day they are both fine cameras.

@@apntv thank you, good to know.

You can stay the first night but we did a short cruise on the first day each time. We never booked a marina, they almost always managed to squeeze us in, although we missed the last slot in Delft basin but managed to find a free mooring beside the road a few mins away. Later we noticed some of the visitors had gone and there were spaces, so it’s all a matter of timing. For Amsterdam we left quite early to make sure we got a good space as we stayed there for the whole weekend. You can call ahead, and during the busier season that’s probably a good idea, we have tended to go just off season, outside of school holidays. You usually return the boat on the last afternoon and stay on the boat overnight and clear the boat first thing in the morning.we haven’t had any problems finding a space to date. One harbour master, on Kaag lake, sounded a bit cross that we hadn’t rung him before entering the marina but that was the only one.

@@apntv Thanks

Locaboat lent us these charts with the boat manual but we had the option to buy them to keep too. They are standard waterways charts, Baz from Happy Yachts/Locaboat highlighted our planned route for us, checking for closures or planned works to avoid, which made it easy to find our way at a glance. We would check our route each day, and then program it into the Nautical Maps app, which we would use out on deck rather than taking the paper charts outside, but the current map was always ready on the chart table downstairs, and was better for quickly looking at the bigger picture of where we were.

Awesome, when time is not a big issue, it’s a great way to travel and avoid flying. We’re hoping to do a different route to Spain again later this year. Hope yours works out. We’ll look forward to your Vlog :-)

Awesome, you’ve certainly covered some distance. Yes we really enjoyed this one, I suspect we will come back and do some more sometime. :-)

Unlike France you are not allowed to stop anywhere, most places have moorings or marinas, some are even free but most you have to pay for. We never booked any in advance and on one occasion we missed the last space but found some free mooring a bit further away by the roadside. Many moorings have power and water, you can pay for those when needed via an app, sometimes it is included in the marina fee. In the Netherlands almost all bridges and locks are operated by personnel, either at the bridge or remotely and you sometimes need to call them by telephone as you approach. The number is usually displayed on the bridge. We booked with Locaboat, who spent about an hour, the first time, going through the rules, signage and procedures from a big manual which you take with you on the boat, so it was all pretty straight forward. Then they took us out on the boat so you get the chance to practice manoeuvring and mooring up before taking the boat. Did you see our second Netherlands video where we go to Amsterdam and beyond? You will see in that where we did have some issues with the bridges causing delays but nothing too serious. We also have one from Canal Du Midi in France too. We hope you have a great trip, we really enjoyed them all so far.

Thank you, much appreciated.

Thanks Frank, yes, we watched those lockdown vlogs again recently ourselves and it bought back memories, I find it quite amazing how much we’ve already forgotten and how quickly everything just seem to return to normal again. Anyway, thanks for stopping by. I hope you might enjoy some of the other Vlogs on the Channel too. :-)

Wow, that sounds like quite a trip by bicycle. Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it :-)

Wow, thanks for that, much appreciated. Again, feel free to ask any questions while researching. Obviously we went with locaboat, other companies available. I guess it depends on the number of people on the boat, but we found the Penichette 950 E extremely good for two people.

Thats the boat I'm looking at. I have sleep apnea and need a machine to sleep every night. Emailed Loco Boat and they said I'd be fine as long as I cruise 5 hours a day. Did the electrical power work ok for you ?,,Thanks,John@@apntv

@@Bigjohn6945 typically yes, most nights we hook up to shore power and some nights, if we’re mooring along the bank with no power, it’s generally been fine. However, on our last trip we did get woken up early one morning when the fridge started bleeping as the power was running low. We did do a couple of short days that trip and we did report it as it could be that the battery was a bit weak and needed attention, we had not seen that happen on the previous two trips on the same model of boat.

@@apntv Is there a guide book that you recommend ? what about nautical charts ?,,Thanks

@@Bigjohn6945 Locaboat supply you a manual with boat and navigation info. They normally supply charts for your chosen route and they even highlighted the route for us or you can buy your own copy to keep. There are guide books available, we didn’t find anything particularly useful and just looked things up online. We hired a Wi-Fi hotspot from them on this last trip, which wasn’t perfect but did help us stay connected most of the time. The Nautical Maps app I suggested was great for the Netherlands, In France they didn’t have that and we used Google maps but it wasn’t that great for boating.

Hi John, yeah I have been using the iPhone 12 pro Max for filming these recently instead of my bigger cameras and it has been a bit of a game changer as you’ve always got that in your pocket. I shoot in 4K and I’m currently using Filmic Pro legacy. Unfortunately, Filmic Pro moved to a subscription model for new users. There is a new camera app out from BlackMagic and it’s free. I was filming this shortly after its release and I was having problems with exposure so I flipped back to Filmic Pro but it’s definitely worth a try. The time lapses are taken with my LUMIX G90. I’m glad you like the video and found it useful, please do feel free to ask any questions as I know how useful that is when planning a trip somewhere new, and I’ll do my best to answer. All the best, Andy.

I’m sorry for the misunderstanding,, I meant for the mapping It looks like that while you’re driving that you have a map on your phone Also is the boat electric ?

@@Bigjohn6945 ah, got ya, I believe it is called Waterkaarten, there is a seven day free trial after which you can subscribe for a month and it gives you much more detailed maps than available on the inbuilt plotter. It also gives you contact details for all the bridges and locks, info on marinas and moorings et cetera so very useful. The boat has electric drive, there is actually a diesel generator running that but the boat is very quiet because of it. If you look at our canal du midi video there is actually a picture towards the end of the motor drive.

No. It would be a good idea and very convenient but you would need to have a marine radio license for the country and have your own radio equipment, as a radio is not fitted on the boat. We do actually have Marine radio licenses, but we would need to buy a VHF handheld and get the relevant permits from the country. The alternatives are that you can ring the bridge control and the numbers are usually posted on the bridges. In practical terms, we found it much easier to try and follow another boat, who can often contact the bridges and get them open ahead of you. Ringing each bridge and trying to explain where you are based on our pronunciation of the name of the bridge can be tricky at times. :-)

The Dutch do mostly speak English, but pronouncing the place names, is as I say, challenging.

Thank you :-)

:-). Thanks.

Yes, I used 3 of these in the end. I couldn’t bring myself to pay for the BMD shelves. :-) As with the converters, I Velcro’d them and the Hyperdeck, Webpresenter, PC and Switch in place. These particular shelves are made by AllMetalParts and available on Amazon and eBay. I’ve started putting links in the video description and I’ve added a link to that in there for you.

Sadly that allmetalparts is out of stock :( bummer! Thank you though @@apntv

:-)

Thank you.

lol thanks, all good here :-) hope you are too.

Veggie food and cider, only a pub will do :-)

Or a creperie :-)

2.9m, (allowing 20cm extra), some 3m bridges were pretty tight. In Utrecht the bridge where Chris has to duck down was probably the lowest point. Good luck, we really enjoyed Utrecht.

@@apntv I thought they did look low - I need 3.45m so I won’t be able to get that far in ! Great videos by the way 👏

@@grantchannel7187 thank you, we really appreciate that :-)