Saeed, how do I request the HD DVDs of your and Walter's amazing hunt?

Thanks!

The sedulous leg and the pant leg were penetrated by shrapnel.
Thanks to an immune system as sedulous as the rest of him, Saeed survived.
Still need that "proof of spanking video" of Walter

Eleven buffalo, that's a great bag!
Riposte by Ron, The Unforgiven

Hi Saeed

Congrats on an amazing hunt! That is quite a collection of buff!! All wonderful hard tops to boot!

I see that you had the pleasure of Deano as one of the team Phs- in my eyes probably one of the best PHs out there and certainly top dog when it comes to buff hunting! Well done again on a great and what looks like a fun safari!!

We shot a total of 13 buffalo, two are not shown in the photo above.

I willpost details of the videos once I have finished them.

do you shoot in 1080-25p?

Correction:
A baker's dozen buffalo, 13 buffalo!
That is better than 13 doughnuts!
Walter would probably prefer 13 doughnuts over 13 cape buffalo.
I can't wait to see the video of Walter shooting a buffalo.

That would be a great addition to the out-take videos on the first post of this thread.

Walter killing a cape buffalo: Incredible!!!

Riposte by Ron, The Unforgiven

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Originally posted by bobby7321:
do you shoot in 1080-25p?

All our videos were shot using Canon XF300 series camera, at full HD resolution.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by bobby7321:
do you shoot in 1080-25p?

All our videos were shot using Canon XF300 series camera, at full HD resolution.

I was wondering if you were shooting in 1920x1080 (60i,30p, or 24p) or 1280x720 (60p)

I have the XF100 and have been trying to get fellow hunters input on whether they think the 60p route is better for faster moving footage over the 1920x1080 at slower frame rates.

I hope you like this photo.

It is not Africa - as if I have tell you that! .

We are having a school break in the Maldives, and should be back in Dubai on the 12th.
When I will continue my edting of the our safari video.

Bobby,

All our videos were shot at 1920x1080 50P.

I am not sure how the XF100 compares with the 300 series. But, we tried the XA10 and found it very disappointing.

After experiencing DV results for the past few years, the results from these file-based cameras is exceedingly better, and easier to work with as well.

The only requirements seems to be a fast computer with lots of RAM and a 64-bit operating system.

Saeed,

Another great safari and great photos.

Glad you all enjoyed our adventure.

I will post details of the videos as soon as I get them ready.

Meanwhile, those of you who enjoy some of my photos, I have a selectionposted on the Photo and Video Album Forum.

Here are a few photos from the Maldives

thanks for the info, I didn't realize it could record at 50p, I though only 50i at full resolution. I'm experimenting now with 60i vs 60p with final result on bluray. 60p is great for smoothness on fast moving objects and great for slowing down for slow motion. anyways thanks again for sharing, footage is great.

Fabulous photos,Saeed.Enjoyed much looking at them.

Best-
Locksley,R.

I have added a video of Nilson's buffalo charge.

Nilson wounded it late in the day, and they left it because of darknes. To come back the next morning and follow it.

They followed it all day, sometimes seeing it but having no chance of a shot at it.

Almost 24 hours from teh time it was originally shot, they caught up with it, and the buffalo decided to even the score.

Great video. Thank you so much Saeed.
I think the PH needs to have somebody look at his rifle. It jams twice!

Regards CF

Nice videos sheikh Saeed. Probably, the PH needs to change the extractor of his rifle!!!

Excellent shooting especially considering the manual ejection, picking the spent brass out of the port with fingers, after each shot!

That looks like a First Generation Ruger RSM in .416 Rigby?

It is extracting fine, just not ejecting completely!

What weakness in the ejector of some RSMs leads to this?

Once upon a time I showed up on safari with a rifle that I had to beat the bolt open after each shot.

I now know that was a "perfect storm" of multiple factors culminating when my custom wildcat brass showed up 2 weeks before safari,
after I had waited 2 years for it.

Redding custom dies did not fully resize, chamber of rifle rough, and maybe the new brass was a little soft.
Perfect storm.
It took all three factors coming together to bring out the problem.

Fixed now!

I have started adding photos.

Photos Collection 1 has been added.

And as have so many of you requested, I am going to add a lot of photos, and try to include as much of what one sees on safari as I can, in addition to the hunting photos.

I hope you enjoy them.

The first installment of photos were superb.

As an aside,I wonder why would Nelson need a rifle with that knife on his belt.

Perhaps, in case the knife jams or misfires.

best-
Locksley,R.

Photo Collection 2 has been added.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Photo Collection 2 has been added.

The second set is as good as the first.

How safe is it to sleep among the dead leaves on the ground?Snakes?

Best-
Locksley,R.

As long as you check that there is no snake or skorpion or any other insect around, once you get down it is very unlikely anything will come close to you.

But, there is always that chance

I have started my Hunt Report, which you can read in my first post at the beginning of this thread.

I have added Photo Collection 3, which is all of birds.

I hope you enjoy them.

Love the landscapes.

RIP Joska Majar.

Riposte by Ron The Unforgiven

Congratulations on a fine hunt! I really like the buff charge video.I wish I knew the name of that PH so if I ever meet him I can congratulate him on that shooting and giving us another great moment in hunting captured on video.

I have added description of the second video.
I have included lots of footage of following animals, scenery etc.

I have finished the video, and I think it is our best yet.

It is on 9 DVDs!, totalling 17 hours and 47 minutes.

Last night we were watching soccer matches as we usually do at the weekend with friends. And appart from Walter, none of them hunts.

I showed them our first video, and was pleasantly surprised how much interest they showed.

Now I am in a situation where I am not sure what to do.

I can make normal DVDs of this, but the quality is degraded quite a lot. It is funny how we never noticed this before Full HD came along!

I can also fit each episode on a double layer DVD in 720P HD. This is in H.264 format, and can be played on a computer, but not directly by a DVD player.

The quality is much better than on a DVD.

One can, of course, play this on a computer connected to an HD TV with an HDMI cable.

That is what I am doing here, but using the full 1080p resolution.

And I must say it is absolutely stunning on a large screen - 103 inch - Plasma screen

I am unable to copy a Full HD 1080p onto a DVD, as each episode exceeds 30 GB of disk space.

So those who wish to get a copy of this hunt, please send me a PM with your choice of either normal DVDS or the HD version, together with your shipping address.

Please do NOT send me any request by email, I am going to ignore any request that come by email.

It will be sometime before I can shipp these, as I would like to know what everyone wants before I make them.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I know some of you think we have a genious here, in the form of Walter.

But, even his incredible ability to create a disaster out of nothing, he still cannot guess your mailing address.

I am getting some requests for the video without an address.

Please check and send me your address.

Also, PLEASE include your country, as some of you do not seem to do so. Sometimes I can guess, but sometimes I am not sure, and I don't want to send it to the wrong address.

I appreciate your co-operation.

I just took time to read the whole thread now and it really made me happy that I have found this forum
To bad I didn't know about it before

Thank you very much for sharing all this Saeed!

Great stories and trophies and the photos are spectacular.

I just tried an experiment.

Each episode, appart from the last one, is about 2 hours long. And for that I need a 50GB BluRay disks, which are not available locally.

So I put one episode on a 25GB BluRay disk, which equates to a 53% quality, because the bit rate is reduced.

The surprising thing is, the quality of this is better than TV shows sown in HD!!

I put the BluRay disk on, and had National Geographic playing too. And switching between the two, ours is definitely clearer!

So if anyone has a BluRay player, and prefers to have this video on BluRay, please let me know.

Would Love to have the Video in BLUE RAY .
Thanking you in Anticipation.

Mohan Das
8321, Kesegs WAY
Blacklick, Ohio 43004
USA.

The Unforgiven One has received Saeed's 2011 Tanzania Expedition Full HD 1080p:

Hunting The Selous With Alan Vincent 2011

My computer wizard son was visiting for Thanksgiving and stayed over a couple of days, lucky for me.
He was here when the package arrived, and quickly skinned the cat.
He installed a new video card in my PC to handle these videos:
GALAXY GEFORCE 210 Graphics Card 1024MB/MO DDR2 HDMI+DVI+VGA
whatever that means.
Then an HDMI cable from the PC to the big screen TV.
There are more ways than one to skin a cat.
Shangrila.
Indeed lots better than broadcast HD TV.
1920x1080 pixels at 25 frames per second.

The video package is 240 GB in 9 files.
17 hours and 48 minutes.
About 18 hours in "Nine Chapters."
First 8 over 2 hours each, 9th Chapter is shorter, but surely no less sweet.

T2011_1:

First chapter, named for the opening scene: "Walter Gone Wild, Then Sheepish"
(My "subtitle," not Saeed's.)

It starts off with a bang, and Saeed marches onward, going bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang himself. One-shot kills, all in the first chapter:
Sable, Kudu, Wildebeest, Buffalo, Waterbuck, Lion.

Panoramic vistas galore, miles and miles of miles and miles, landscapes, riverscapes, skyscapes, animal herdscapes ...

Long walks up and down the wooded hillscapes,
river and stream crossings, and quick dashes to fallen game, and stealthy creeping on some game,
both before the shot and after.

Alan and Saeed tackled skinning the front half of the first buffalo, while the two company skinners went after the other end,
making the Rocky Mountain Oyster harvest a priority. They needed mojo?

Alan demonstrated the "Hobo Stick Bundle" method of meat packing, one-man technique, sort of like the muzzle-grasp-safari-rifle-carry.
Hard worker, that Alan.
Just like a business owner who wants to continue his successful business, safari business.

But Alan is a great boss it seems, looks after the crew well, he is heard offering drinks to all, after the lion is loaded into the Toyota.
He is fluent in Swahili, but I could only make out a couple of words in that scene, as limited as my Swahili is: "Sprite" and "Coke."

T2011_2:

Saeed:
Dry land hippo head shot.
Double on buffalo: Two buff with the bolt action.
Eland at long range: The .375/404 dropped him where he stood.
Outer Circle hartebeest.
Waterbuck across the river: A hit and run, but he did not run far.
Gunpowder salt for bush camp cooking.
Cuckoo egg trick, hard boiled in the nest.

Roy:
Big impala ram with a long shot.

Walter:
He admits he eats more chocolate than Saeed does, in full HD.

sounds wonderful I wonder if there is a way to host the files and distribute that way instead of having to mail out actual bluray discs? I know 250GB is hefty, but still probably cheaper than the discs + postage I imagine. One could download and watch on the computer, or set up the computer to play to a larger TV, or what I do is plug my hard drive right into the USB port on my bluray player (philips BDP3406) and it plays perfectly. just a thought.

Saeed, I have been away for almost three weeks and just saw your post for the DVD offer and sent a PM, I hope I'm not too late. They always are the highlight of my year. Looking forward to thm.

I am trying to do several things at the same time.

4 computers are working at the same time, plus one printer and one DVD duplicator.

I have not finished building the BluRay duplicator yet. I have the box, power supply and the processing card. I am waiting for the BluRay drives to come. They are promised for next week.

All the DVD Masters are done.
5 of the BluRay Masters are done.

I have added another hunt report, and our BluRay duplicator is ready and copies are being made.

I am hoping I will be able to send some out before the weekend.

This is the most amazing forum post I have ever seen on the internet. Well done, man! Well done!

Saeed once again many many thanks for your generosity.