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By Ilkka Nissila · Posted
I think it's more likely that the ICE agents who terrorized ordinary people will find themselves in prison when all has been said than done (and when the authoritarian regime has fallen) and they should probably avoid antagonizing the people they ultimately are responsible to (the American people). -
By Ilkka Nissila · Posted
I think the problem is governments have not only voters but powerful supporters which can give financing to campaigns and influence policy in other ways such as lobbying. In particular, the pro-Israel lobby seems very powerful in many Western countries and anything that could be seen as being critical of Israel or its policies can really trigger these groups. Even if it is actually genocide that Israel is carrying out, many Christian groups somehow take it very personally and some may actually believe that friends of Israel get rewarded by their god and others punished; what Israel actually does seems irrelevant to these people, she is always right in their minds. Now, a government may be influenced by the pro-Israel groups and behave like civilized people in other areas of government, with this one exception. I wonder if Netanyahu really needs to kill as many Arabs as Hitler killed Jews before these people wake up, or if they even then would continue to support him. A retribution by killing 100 or 1000 times as many people as the opposing side has killed would seem normal Israeli policy and in their mind there is no need to being proportional or fair. I agree that the data collection both by companies and governments, potential cracking of secure communications between individuals, and facial recognition is government overreaching and the respect for privacy should be restored as a core value. There is nothing so bad happening in UK or EU at the moment that would warrant constant survellaince or reading private messages. -
This anti-fascist tool is apparently also an admission to being a terrorist. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making-list-of-anyone-who-films -
By Ilkka Nissila · Posted
Nikon argued that the patents (in the lawsuit RED against Nikon) are invalid because RED demonstrated the patented features more than one year before applying for it, so this is against the rules and the patent should not have been granted. Jinni Tech used this argument before apparently successfully. Since Nikon argued the patents are invalid they should not enforce them otherwise they are being dishonest and opportunistic. The patents have been in any case interpreted too broadly and should be specific to a using particular methods described in the patent and not considered generic to all kinds of visually lossless raw compressions in video. The "invention" is rather trivial in any case since similar things (visually lossless raw compression) were used for stills compression before and the raw video file is just a sequence of stills images. Nikon's method of raw video compression is different from RED's and Intopix has a patent on it anyway. I think the RED patents were enforced in such a broad way simply because it was an American company and the purpose of the US Patent system is just to help American companies gain advantages in the market, whether merited or not. -
By QuickHitRecord · Posted
The HVX200 (not A) was the primary camera at my first paid staff video position back in 2009. I traveled and shot with it extensively. The combination of that camera, the lights that were available to me at the time (Arri tungsten & Kino Flo), and the hoops that we had to jump through for basic color correction did not create a very compelling image. Or, they didn't with my skill level. I remember trying to get a wide shot of all four members of OAR in a tiny hotel room and having to use the Century wide angle adapter, with it's massive distortion and blurry corners. I think we took down one of the hotel curtains and draped it over the couch they were sitting on because its floral design didn't match the subject. It was such yucky footage. The first time I saw 5D, 7, or even GH1 footage, it was profoundly gorgeous by comparison. There's not really any part of me that misses the HVX, though sometimes I'm tempted to track one down just to see what I can get out of it with 17 years of experience and all of the modern support tech. But even that experiment isn't worth a couple hundred bucks to me. I do think that some of the later 2/3" CCD bodies were capable of something unique in the right hands, if you're willing to deal with the bulk and weight of a historical ENG/EFP camera. I'm not. I've mentioned it before but whenever I get the itch to shoot with a CCD camera, I reach for my trusty FZ-47. It has a bigger CCD than the HVX but is a fraction of the size and weight, and costs next to nothing. No, it doesn't have any professional I/O or features, but it is fully manual and I think it's way more fun to shoot with than any of the behemoths that came before. The image is gloriously junky, and it the way it handles skin tones is wierd but kind of cool.
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