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This is what the French all thought when Hitler turned up at the border. You're right about the small battles though... Not worth it is it? The big ones on the other hand... It has to be approved by shareholders, they've only decided at board level (at both Netflix and Warner) that they want the buyout to go ahead. Only the hostile takeover by Ellison will get the regulator seal of approval, stamped with the famous United States bald eagle emblem. What is it with the Eagle and these nazi countries?

Had a bit of time with the Sony FX2 today along with a Canon C50, same sensor as EOS R6 III but no IBIS or EVF, and it takes forever to switch photo / video mode. The FX2's viewfinder was chunkier than expected, it's massive and crisp, and articulated. I love it. The screen is so-so. The a7v has less rolling shutter, better screen and screen tilt method. But I do like the FX2, it's the only modern small CINEMA CAMERA that has the full photography feature-set. I just wish they'd put the a7v architecture in there, new sensor... I was told that apparently the Sony a7c II uses a different sensor to the a7 IV, it's tweaked, but didn't sell - so Sony had loads left over and hence needed a way to use them so FX2 was born. Sounds like a typical sales rep story to me so take that with a pinch of salt but it did come originally from a Sony employee. I am happy with the FX2's image, it's enough for me for just Cinema 24p. There's no denying the C50 and R6 III have a specs advantage with the 7K RAW but I just think it's complete overkill. Where is our footage being seen? IMAX screen? Phone more like, laptop if you're lucky. I'm not suggesting to go back to 1080p... lol. I just think 4K H.265 is fine. A lot of people are asking "who is FX2 for"? Well I guess it's for weird people like me who has always valued the hybrid convergence of stills and cinema. There's a nimbleness to it. No faffing, no huge weight, just as capable at photography.... It's the polar opposite of a Blackmagic Pyxis or Ursa. Yet the "it ain't selling" problem is really concerning... It's as if the market has gone a bit batty. All the stills people are buying the a7r V instead and all the video people hanker after an FX3. So the FX2 sat in-between the two suffers from that dreaded "middle" failure because people are unable to snap out of their binary thinking. In a way, the Nikon Zr because it doesn't have a mechanical shutter or EVF, and is lower resolution, in not pretending to be also a really good stills camera has made it appeal more for video. Also Nikon are undercutting Sony pretty deep on price at the moment. So not hard to see why that will further pummel the FX2's sales. Sony need to be careful. Their customer service is poor, the reliability is iffy (the firmware update problems in particular) and their pricing strategy is becoming Canon-like. At the same time meanwhile, Canon are putting top-level specs in a 6 series enthusiast body and getting aggressive on price with the R8, and Nikon is putting RED codecs in things that cost $2k... So in sales terms they may have peaked and might see a downturn. But I for one will be picking up a lovely FX2 if it ever drops below $2000 used.

I think people see politics these days as a form of show-biz entertainment soap opera drama, what a surprise they are going to get when the frogmen smash their door in next.

It's not time I need, EOSHD peaked in 2018. I need to break the strangulation of the gatekeepers, I could post an exclusive about Canon leaving the camera market on the front page or even aliens landing and nobody will fucking see it because the gatekeeping sites and social media influencers all have a major EOSHD grudge.

A bit of a stretch to go from developing an Alice in Wonderland app to accusing Tim Cook of being a pedo.

The new entry-rule is doubleplusgood. Giving five-year socmedia record to Borderforce is only goodthink. Right citizens with nothing to hide welcome full truthcheck, for it keeps out crimethink, facecrime, and all ungood elements. Freedom is Strength, and more watch means more freedom. The Party merely sees what all goodthinkers already show. Only unpersons fear oversight.

Providing a five-year social media history to border agents may become a pre-condition to entry as part of the rise of fascism in America. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo

I sincerely hope they correct this very fast. From my use, I would not say it is as bad as people are saying, but until now the h265 from my Nikons has been very very good.

I always said how the Nikon colors were close to the Alexa one. I used to work as an on set photographer on movie shooting including Netflix in my country. And many times I had to match them to the Movie own colors that were mostly shots on Alexas. And they were damn close, as this test shows. I did not do video to video comparison, but Nikon colors have always been so good.

In a world where 1+1 no longer equals 2?

And even more than that, stories typically rely on characters almost always being portrayed as somewhat competent, even if they're nefarious. Which I always find amusing because we should all know that's one hell of a myth.

Same thing happened with Hitler. In the earlier years, because they wanted a piece of that action for themselves and a seat at the table. In later years, because the alternative was death. The latter may not be the case here, - instead you just lose your invitation to the big feast, but the former is almost certain. And I kind of get it, but then living in a dog eat dog world is nothing new. What is the answer? There isn’t one other than live your own life as best you can because we live in an increasingly weary and apathetic society and attempting to ‘do the right thing’ based on principle, usually leads to self-destruction. My mother is a crusader. Unfortunately she has forgotten her history lesson and fighting every tiny and often inconsequential battle has lead to her poor mental and physical health. I don’t say turn a blind eye, but rather don’t get into a fight you have zero chance of winning. Anyway, so the announcement I received a few days ago from Netflix was a bit premature then huh?!

I don’t agree that that it needs normal people in their millions to rise up, it needs the elites to turn on Trump… Military leaders, CEOs, celebrities. World leaders. Instead, 99% of them they have licked his ass and appeased him

Just wanted to say that I love what you're doing here, Andrew. The truth is powerful. The more you speak your mind, and encourage others to, the more you benefit the world. And, ultimately, your site traffic. It just takes time. Keep being free!

Tim Cook has always been a mess, he's just been sufficiently hidden from public view; most of the time. Did you know that Steve Jobs hated Cook? Massive chunks of Steve Job's biography were censored by Walter Isaacson, after Job's death, to conceal this from the public. There's an investigative piece on it, here: https://vo.lc/The-Execution-of-Steve.html Cook is also a child-slaver. His is personally-evidenced knowingly using children to manufacture Apple products. Note that this is different from Apple's prior use of child slaves, because, until Tim Cook turned up, Apple had not been directly, knowingly, complicit. [Source: Business Insider] The real reason these Apple executives are jumping-ship, however, has nothing to do with technical problems at Apple. Instead, they are getting ahead of a much bigger scandal, which will likely sink the company. Here I quote from an article by a Guardian award-winning writer who was a journalist for both The Times and The Telegraph newspapers; and worked at BBC radio. The journalist knew Steve Jobs personally, and worked with him. This is from the article: "Tim Cook abuses children. This is well-documented. The extent to which he abuses children is to be determined by a court, and the process by which he will be brought to trial for his repeated abuse of children depends on your capacity — as the message on Steve Jobs' desk, pictured at the top of this page, reads — to "THINK". Your inclination will be to turn away." "Tim Cook has, bizarrely, never had any identifiable partner of any sort. Readers will note that this was also the case for notorious pedophile, Jimmy Savile. This is not of course, to draw any comparison whatsoever between Tim Cook and the notorious pedophile Savile. Any attempt at such a direct comparison would (as it was with Savile) be met with such violent legal repercussions from the child-slave-traders at Apple that nobody would dare write such a thing. Perhaps we should not even think it." "Many reporters, after Jimmy Savile was exposed, congratulated themselves on having kept silent for years out of fear of being sued, and all the children who were raped in the interim were also delighted at the reporters' cowardice. Weren't they?" "The problem is that the entire, disgusting edifice of Silicon Valley relies on our fear. What happens if we're not scared? What happens if we stop treating the child-slave-trader Tim Cook as royalty?" Source: The Execution of Steve, By Chris Stevens / Phoenix Kaspian, 16th January, 2024. Note that the journalist's article has been up for almost two years, undefeated by Apple's legal team. Apple is the richest company in the world. You do the math. Apple is cooked.

One of them leaked the script of Witkoff's negotiations with the Russian guy. Another one, an admiral, questioned orders and forced to resign. The problem is there won't be enough of them, because unlike Hollywood scenarios, you need more than few heros to save the country from fascists, it needs uprising by millions of people (tho I don't believe these clowns are fascist. They're too dumb to stick with a particular ideology).

So it uses the dual gain HDR in mechanical shutter mode just like S1ii to achieve 15 stops. But noise reduction applied on all ISOs. Panasonic got the same DR but without NR, thanks to its lower resolution/bigger pixels maybe We still see the Japanese stubbornness dealing with ISO. Even with extremely low read out noise at base ISO, they don't apply it as metadata-only settings to let the software increase the brightness digitally to save the highlights at higher ISO. The sensor is ultra clean yet you lose 3 stops of potential highlight recovery at ISO 1600.

I've been thinking for a while that, internationally, Hollywood is going to get cooked by the 'new' USA. Think how many of the biggest movies over the years have been predicated on the notion that the USA are, once you get down to it, the good guys, the freedom guys, the justice guys - how does that notion survive in a world shown, daily, evidence of resurgent American fascism, cruelty and opression. Even in those movies where the US state is engaged in bad stuff, the day is saved by upright American patriots (with great teeth) - but IRL, where are those patriots? We're now aware that they're not to be relied upon to do that. So how does a global cultural hegemony based on an vision of the US as that shining city on the hill survive the revelation that the shine is an illusion (obviously many of us already knew that it was a tortured myth anyway, but the grotesquery is now so pronounced it's unignorable even to the millions of normies who make up the entire international audience for Hollywood's product)?

nikon photo cameras have that kind of extremely sharp glow, i used v1 10 mp for its 60p mode, coupling with nikon's 18mm f1.8 (?, kind of forgetting the lens spec, long time ago), the video clips on my computer screen are very sharp and has some kind of glow (lost on youtube). now with om1 20mp 120p and zeiss zf 21mm f2.8, i still don't see that kind of sharpness glow. each camera manufacturer has its own secret juice.

I think there's an echo in here....

In my experience, distance from screen matters the most.

This is my point. If a 20 year old varicam 27h can can do a lot that 35mm film rolls can do, the modern crop of mirrorless and cinema cams are much better, the gap between these new ones and the 35mm film rolls is really not that much, hard to justify the 100x cost and the much long time for processing.

The woman with bubbles at 1:00 or so or the sun behind the mountain at 1:50 or so are more challenging scenes than the baby and the rolloff in both looks really rough to me. The image at 0:49 also looks pretty bad to me, as do the highlights in the water at 0:40ish. It's great for a camera from 20 or so years ago, but in modern terms, I'd expect better from any mid-tier hybrid. Like with most things, in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, it can look great - but so can a Nikon ZR or a Canon R6 III. 😃

seems that baby's chin area, the local dr is really high, yet the highlight rolloff seems nice by my eyes. the details in the highlight area still are kept. there is no clear dead white, no clipping on the right side of the histogram. if this holds true, it is really hard to justify using alexa 35, or even 35mm film rolls. they may be even better in this situation, but 27h is good enough.