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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.

I'm still waiting to hear from the big names about it... Guess we'll have a long wait for that. I think they're probably more tied up about being bought by a streamer, than they are about being bought by a fascist.

i think that baby's face is one of the challengest situations, dark shade, interwoven with the sunshine areas. this demonstrates that the 27h has some mojos. my point is that the film rolls may have similar situation like the closing shop arri, 5% improvement vs 10-20 times cost. for the film rolls, the cost may be 100 times more, depending on the final feature's length.

the highlight rolloff and the skin tones of that baby's face are really nice. the low res look may be due to the superzoom. "I used Angenieux zoom B4 lens, but I'm really interested to trying Zeiss Digiprime, cine lens for 2/3"." my experience on even the canon b4 cinema zoom is not so good. no hands on experience on digiprime. i guess the digiprime will be leading a big margin in terms of clearness.

It is and it isn't. A little history reveals otherwise. Honestly, humanity's default mode seems to welcome oppression. And why not? It's intellectually easy. Many peoples don't like trying to be more smarter.

varicam 27 is 3 2/3 inch ccd cam. so the color is good. not sure about the highlight rolloff. i bought mine 10 years ago, used it once or twice, as i am totally unfamiliar with this format and the learning curve is stiff. those two menus are very difficult to go through. and all those terms in the menus are strange words to me. i am still learning. i can verify the color is good. the resolution and the details are not as good as other high quality 1080p or 4k cams that i have, but because i put an old tv zooms in front of my copy of 27h. if i put some digiprime lens on my unit, and if i learn well to set up my own picture profile confidently, i think the resolution and the details should be acceptable. not sure about the highlight rolloff though. i don't have hands on experience with the alexas and the 35mm film rolls. so i don't know the best highlight rolloff. in normal conditions, seems 27h gives good images.

Nikon ZR vs Arri Alexa Mini Color (R3D NE, N-Log, Log C) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgJGK3YpIx0

We need to send a murder of crows to the click weasels doorstep

The effective resolution of properly-exposed modern 35mm film is somewhere in the neighborhood of 5K if I remember right. But as above, a lot of people aren't so likely to care about that. Unless the varicam had some sort of miracle sensor, though, 35mm negative film will have much better dynamic range and much, much more pleasing highlight rolloff. It's still seen as king of rolloff - and on a film with a 20 million dollar budget, the cost of shooting on film vs Arri vs anything else is basically an afterthought.

I think a lot of people would be surprised to learn how many movie theaters are still projecting in 2K. Movie theater projectors are expensive as hell and overall profits for theaters are down compared with 10 years ago. Exhibitors aren't going to rush out to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on anything that doesn't have a direct positive impact on their profits. Being able to count the pores in the lead actor's skin doesn't put asses in seats or sell more candy.

i want to point out that varicam's 720p is probably the best 720p implemented. the title may be more suitable as "best 720p vs 35mm film rolls in terms of resolution". for the organic feeling, it surprises me that varicam's 720p can be better than that of 35mm film rolls. if so, what is the point of shooting with film rolls? maybe because the film rolls are expensive, only exclusive to the big budget films? i guess i am mystery buster. lol.