Trusty Sony PD100A Goes to the Fair!!
Yep. at the Gravenstein Apple Fair I used this DV-CAM format camera to record Twang Ditty's 45 minute set of music!! With help from my audio expert, Lee Lusted, we took a wireless feed off the stage mixing console into a mixer for two channel stereo, then fed the camera via the external audio mini-jack connector. Sounded good and the band was thrilled with the result. I shot in the 16x9 format, which unfortunately is not as good as the HD version, but as long as the image is kept to 320ppi, fine for web use, it works ok. Would have used my Flip HD Mino camera, but as is well known, it has no audio in.
Notice the tripod and earphones: necessities for pro video standards.

Last Gravenstein Apples of the Season

I picked the last remaining Gravs from one of my friend Lynn Deedler's Gravenstein trees... making apple sauce out of most of them, eating the rest with Vella Dry Monterey Jack cheese and Trader Joe's Pita crackers. The Grav is on the endangered fruit variety list, Sebastopol used to have hundreds of acres of orchards, now mostly taken over by vineyards. It's my favorite apple and I am pleased that I ate so many this year.
Photo below is from the Apple Fair in Sebastopol earlier this month. Most Gravensteins are greener than the ones in the photograph. You owe to yourself to have one some day.