Comments on: Field Crickets

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:34:15 +0000

I used a Canon Powershot A95, souped up with a macro lens that I made by reversing the lens from my old Olympus OM-2 camera. I've got a lengthier desciption of my setup on this page

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:14:50 +0000

What type of camera did you use to capture those impressive images?

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:41:19 +0000

Thanks for posting the additional information on how you made your recording.

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:31:19 +0000

I should probably mention how I made the sound recording. I wasn't sure how to do it at first, and was thinking that I'd need to buy some sort of microphone and sound recorder. But then, S_ very intelligently pointed out that my camera can shoot movie clips with sound, so I already *had* a microphone and sound recorder. All I needed was a program to strip out the soundtrack from the video, and voila! A friend recommended using Virtualdub for this, as it can painlessly strip out the audio from the *.avi files that my camera generates- just tell it to save the file as a *.wav file, and it's done (Thanks, John!). And, in keeping with the subtheme of this site of trying to do things without spending any actual cash, it's free. So, I was able to get a reasonable sound recording without buying anything at all!

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:50:39 +0000

I like the sound recording. That’s something I keep meaning to have a go at.