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 The Da Nang International Fireworks Festival, DIFF is an annual competition held each weekend around the May, June, July period. Schedule and event details can be found at the official website https://diff.vn/en/ It is a very popular event and this year I was only able to get a "room with a partial view" from a hotel right opposite the main stage and grandstand (I was too late to get tickets from the hotels rooftop viewing area or the actual grandstands themselves). This presented me with some problems; The room I had did not give an unobstructed view of the total display. Rain drop residue was on the window I had to shoot from. Reflections had to be avoided. Conversations in the room (I was there with my wife) had to be removed. Fortunately my #dji Pocket 4P performed well and my editing suite, #Filmora 15 cleaned the video and sound pretty well. This is a 1 minute highlight generated by Filmora 15 The full 20 minute version is on the channel as well, same title but without...

 Owdue all Day 2 of the Viet Nam travelog and in the morning and to fit in with our schedule based around the final of the Da Nang International Firework Festival (DIFF) (which by the way meant there were many tourists and visitors everywhere we went) we took a tour to the Lady Buddha and Marble Mountain. The tour was booked via Get Your Guide. Maybe too much of me talking and not enough action but it is what it is. After the tour, dinner in a seafood restaurant before back to the hotel for the fireworks.

 Remember when you had a friend as a kid and their parents were either well off or movie mad and instead of having to look at the photo album you ended up watching a home movie of them on holiday.? Well this is a bit like that only I'm not well off, it's just the tech is more affordable now. So on the first out of country holiday together for 10 years I took my new tech on a learning trip and we went to Viet Nam. This is a look at Day 1, sitting on aircraft, sitting in airports and a wander for food and drink. The tech? DJI Pocket 4P and Samsung S22 ultra.

 Are you old enough to remember when you went round to a friends or even worse a relatives house after they had been on holiday and out came the photo album. What followed was an eternity of them pointing out memories to relive😧. Well all that is in the past as with the click of a link it's possible to bore a whole global audience... However, Vietnam is a fantastic place to visit and in a week we packed in some incredible activities so if some of the snaps make you think of going... Just wait till the videos get posted😂

 Owdue I am not one of those people that know instantly the ins and outs of the tech I buy, in fact if anything I am guilty of just jumping in and then wondering why the result is far from what I expected. I want to try and correct that to some degree so before I take the next travel adventure I have scheduled I am on familiarisation time with the DJI Pocket 4P. I have to say I rather like this camera, I know there are lots of comparisons between this and its major competitor but at the end of the day, availability and price is why I plumped for this one. Its availability is also the reason I didn't go got the Vlog combo. This is my very first attempt out "in the field". It was on the 4th of July and CK TIKII were having  a bit of a bash and one attraction was the food choice included hot dogs. There are not too many places that I frequent in Chiang Mai that do decent hot dogs. How did my first try go? Pretty good. the camera is easy to operate I need to study the focus a...