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I believe it's just mainstream social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn etc., that they care about, not small niche forums on very specific topics not related to politics. I think it's safe to visit the US unless you have a written record of publicly speaking against Trump or his policies, in which case it might not currently be safe.

Yes, I misunderstood you. I completely agree. It makes me smile a bit when I read such clear-cut opinions for or against a camera, judging by what is posted on YouTube. I also understand that it's the only place we have to express opinions, short of buying every camera that comes out just for the fun of it. I am firmly convinced that the only thing we can appreciate in a YouTube video is the author's skill with editing, color correction, and color grading. I do underwater filming, and since the housings for the Canon C50 and Nikon ZR have been presented, I was anxiously awaiting the first tests. And here is a test of the ZR. I don't want to criticize the messenger (literally: "shoot the pianist"). He was probably given the camera and tested it quickly. The video has obvious color correction flaws. In several clips, the magenta got out of control... Anyway... was reading enthusiastic comments and I remembered that this shark-filled spot is very famous, and there are hundreds of videos made over the years that can be used for comparison. This was shot six years ago with, ehm... a GH5 And this one, 4 years ago with a mix of GH5 and OG Komodo (speaking about matching cameras) So what are we seeing really?

Same here. I had to leave my PRO account after 15 years. I didn't renew after what they did to the European accounts, who pay the subscription like all users worldwide. I hope they fail miserably. I moved everything on Youtube. Such a shame.

All of politics, completely out of control everywhere, and nobody seems to be able to get a grip. What's the common theme in all of our countries? Well, it has turned into a TV show, an attention economy, and that the people who enter politics for the right reasons have to play the game too, with a hostile media, be it old style TV debates, tabloid journalism or the new hellscape that is social media. Nobody has felt it necessary to protect the culture of politics or nurture a better calibre of politician, through better education and training... So you just get a load of narcissists or lackies going into it instead. It has become The Apprentice, it even has the same host. Everyone took the old style of politics for granted - we have never much liked the culture of it in the first place anyway, but as a result - it's even worse now.

Crazy times, the UK lately has also been batshit crazy, now europe wants to introduce digital euro. Some politicians in Belgium wanted to approve an AI that scans all bank accounts of citizens to find frauds... I can't understand who finds this a good idea??

Not much problem for christian nationalists who don't want to see non white tourists and non religious white tourists walk on their country's soil.

I haven’t been there for a while and was toying with a trip next year. To paraphrase King Arthur now though.

Yes. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Sirui 35, especially for $500. I also expect Sirui to update their 1.6X lineup soon and add wider/longer lenses in the process. This is a really great time to be getting into anamorphic. There are so many great options amongst the newer Chinese made lenses...I can also recommend the Blazar Cato 2X lenses. I like 2X, especially with open gate and the Cato 85 & 125 are pretty nice lenses. I can get better results with an anamorphic adapter setup, but not without some hassles.

I guess you only need a couple of months to inventarise all your socials of the last five years. Is that including public forums like these ? also, every person you emailed, even if you got a new computer a year ago and do not have your complete history. On top of that all addresses and phone numbers of all family members, best friends, exes and current affairs you might be having. Probably that includes the number of deceased parents or family, if they did that within the last five years. so we basically need a P.I. to investigate ourselves to get into that shithole the US have become ? i think I’ll give a pass then … My guess is tourism will be booming the next couple of decades !

Yes my whole comment was on a "joke tone" and ironic as a mean to try to be "light" given the harsh and unbelievable reality we are all witnessing right now. I could've add "marple sirup" and "advanced Artic position related to Denmark" in the "unless they contain" list, that would have been more obvious I was being light. Sorry, not always easy to convey humor with text on sad topics (and not in your mother's tongue🫠). I need to rely more on spot-on British humor Gif like @BTM_Pix does😅

https://vimeo.com/363016267 This video test shows the front 35Nap reshaped to a diameter that could fit inside my VD in order to have a single focus.

Wasn't there rumours of a pee pee tape a few years ago?

It's funny, because for so long these companies have resisted progress and had to be dragged kicking and screaming (see: digital media, streaming, etc.) but then when they absolutely SHOULD be resisting they have instead capitulated. There is an inevitably to it all, I suppose, but it's still pretty wild at how quickly they've jumped on board.

I definitely like the way these look better but I still thought the 35 Saturn image looked good! To me, I'm just grateful that there are more options out there, as anamorphic has been out of my price range for a long time. And they'll only get better as they fine tune them.

The Chinese are great but they need to watch this And this...

The Alexa has a really fast sensor readout, 2ms... motion cadence on that is of course fine as it is on all of ARRI's cameras, so that probably excludes fast readout as being the issue. Maybe some cameras implement the shutter timings differently to others? Say if you are in 1/50 or 1/40 or 180deg shutter the sensor might still remain in 60fps and it will just expose for longer and then the image processor converts it from 60p to 24p and then the codec maybe fudges things further with trickery like inter-frame compression and inter-frame noise reduction, whereas on a simpler camera like the Digital Bolex there is none of that shit and basically a global shutter sensor and entire image pipeline optimised for 24fps at 180 degree shutter. Maybe some of our modern mirrorless camera sensors have a true 24fps mode and others only have 60fps mode, process the 24p from that. Maybe some codecs are truly awful at motion... On the 50D it didn't have a video mode at release if I remember correctly? Magic Lantern enabled it via the raw video hack, but there's no H.264 mode is there? I could understand why some of the older H.264 low bitrate codecs hurt motion a lot, Cinema DNG and Magic Lantern were like going from digital video to film. The leap was that big. I should do some tests in Cinema DNG on my Sigma Fp-L as it is a direct sensor feed, uncompressed RAW and no pixel binning in the 1.3x crop mode. I bet that looks pretty good at 180 degree shutter in 24p.

So the news is in... https://www.eoshd.com/news/openai-decides-content-is-worth-paying-for-but-only-if-its-disneys/ OpenAI is being paid $1bn. Disney is paying them to license their entire range of intellectual property. You read that right... Disney is paying OpenAI! In return OpenAI will get to use Sora and other OpenAI tools - presumably they would have had to pay for these at some point so factored it into the $1bn. These tools will be used by Disney staff at HQ and in the creative process. In return Disney will also get an equity stake in OpenAI. This strikes me as a very good precedent for OpenAI. They are getting IP holders to pay them, rather than the other way round where OpenAI pays for content rights. There must have been absolutely no chance Disney could have won their lawsuit on copyright grounds for this deal to have any chance whatsoever. They must also have been persuaded that Sora AI fan videos of Star Wars would have an incredible social media reach for years to come, it's like free marketing isn't it? The guardrails must be really tight. No way are you making that Jabba the Hutt sex tape.

varicam 27h has 60p, 3 ccd thus global shutter no debayering, dps from 2000-2010 like its footage and see it as a substitute of 35mm film rolls. maybe ccd performs better even with a relative fast reading sensor?

when i pan with c300 og, the 50mbps mpeg codec makes the whole scene blur. i cannot see anything clearly. once the panning stops, suddenly the image is very clear. i just hate it. i use nanoflash's top codec 280 mbps mpeg and 30p and it is cured. when using ml raw cameras, i see clear images during slow panning (fast panning shows rolling shutter) at 24p. i almost always use 24p for ml raw cams to save bandwidth.

probably 50d has a really slow reading sensor. i know fs100 can do 60p easily so the sensor may be faster.

i think that andrew has a very good insight. maybe the r1mx, the eosm, gh1, do not have a fast reading sensor, so that more optimized (actually limited by the then technology) for 24p motion blur.

interesting, i like the r1mx and eos-m crop mood too. i did not use gh1 hacked before. may try it.

A primer on the fundamentals might be useful as a refresher too...