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You have to give him more credit than that Jon, it's a pretty complex DIY project to pull off. And if it works well, the lack of polish doesn't matter. I'm curious if the SLR Magic Rangerfinder works on the red Isco though... It would have made the implementation of this far easier.

A comedian walks on stage and tells a joke. He plays an act, where he is a serial killer with a stammer and silly walk. Does that make him a murderer? According to Disney they actually couldn't. Walt Disney Studios chairman said: ‘The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible That's an interesting way to describe an edgy fictional comedy act... as a real life attitude?! A statement?! Give me a fucking break. Yeah but, Einstein, I'm not defending the jokes. I'm not defending the content. I'm defending the person and the concept of making edgy jokes 10 years ago without them being dug up by a right wing fanatic in order to end a top filmmaking talent's career. Have you even listened to what he had to say upon being fired? "My words of nearly a decade ago were, at the time, totally failed and unfortunate efforts to be provocative. I have regretted them for many years since – not just because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative like I had hoped, but also because they don’t reflect the person I am today or have been for some time.’ I'd argue they didn't even represent who Gunn was 10 years ago, because it's fiction. An act. Yeah, I always have to lower the bar when talking to idiots *SHRUG*

SEE... You are the disease. You have to make it personal. The whole topic is about idiots like you, in fact... Who cannot tell the difference between targets of jokes and subject material, or even the difference between reality and fiction, personal life (real life) and defending a film director's right to carry on working despite being an absolutely terrible comedian. Are you truly thick or something? True, true. It happens a lot from Trump's side - liars with abhorrent opinions on how to run a country... they turn the tables in self defence. Trump will label CNN "fake news" because he knows full well the power of fake news. "Fake news" from rival Fox got him elected! When he lies, all he has to do is accuse the other side of lying. It's like some kind of yin and yang strategy. Of course I expect Cernovich to have outspoken and controversial opinions as well... guess how he attacks... 360... He'll call out the same behaviour in the opposition and get them into a lot of trouble. This is where we find ourselves with Gunn... And those who think it's unfair get labeled pedophile sympathisers by idiots like KidsRevil, because in the first instance he can't tell the difference between an act, and a real person, then to compound that, in second instance he equates defending James Gunn's character, with endorsing the content of his act. The bar has been lowered so much by people like this, it is why we are having conversations about rape and child molestation in a discussion about a film director. It's why you can't defend another artist if he's made bad jokes on taboo subjects, which presumably look bad when taken out of context and misunderstood by idiots. I can't continue to defend Gunn. I am going to tar myself with the outrage brush and bring all sorts of angry confused accusations onto my shoulders from idiots who can't tell the difference between actual pedophiles and film directors who joke about taboo subjects. Has Lars Von Trier been interviewed recently? Maybe I should go back to talking about a director who maintains his edge and yet remains relatively unscathed - he's only been labelled a Nazi for his jokes - which is far less worse than being branded a pedophile. Would love to know KidsRevil's simplistic view of the John Lasseter situation as well!! just for laughs... Let's hear it!

I must take it at face value I am afraid!! Kids R Evil! You think kids are evil. Clearly. I am OuTRAGEd. You BETTER delete your past tweets!! ? Is there? Edgy jokes don't violate criminal law. Fact. Do you think I am in a Larry David sitcom or something? I do understand social etiquette.... in real life. On the internet it doesn't work the same way. In real life, we don't do things like we do on Twitter. Twitter isn't a real life dinner date - do you think it is?! You have laws that protect people from jokes? Name one. And finally a reminder for late comers to the topic... I am not defending the content of his jokes at all. Easy to confuse, as I said from the beginning. No - I am defending James Gunn, the human being... and the artistic license we have to make jokes, sometimes shit ones, free speech, a huge filmmaking talent, the concept of edgy humour, jokes on twitter, and most of all the ability to grow as a person in the course of 10 years and not to have past errors hung around your neck for all eternity with no ability to move on from the past... Gunn stopped making stupid tasteless jokes a long, long time ago. Stephen Fry articulates it far better than I ever could... Go to 10m:00sec "Self pity is the ugliest emotion"

Yes, so much virtue signalling, so little respect for artistic freedom and storytelling. No wonder the bigger studios don't take risks any more. You're absolutely right. It is an age of hysteria and outrage and fanaticism. The arts is timid, self-censoring. Usually you need a vigorous artistic and film-making community to shine a light on the hysteria... It ain't happening much now.

People who defend Trump on the US economy don't realise that the economy is like a very large ship that takes a long time to respond to the commander. The changes Trump is making will be felt a few years from now. Today, you're experiencing the decisions the previous commander in chief made. Some of Trump's policies are impacting on people immediately, like the trade wars with his allies in Europe and China. If you think trade wars are good for jobs, think again. Anyway back on our favourite topic.... Today the hounds are out again making certain ideas and satires off limits for comedy. It's as bad as burning books. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44936332 This time it's the Rick & Morty co-creator and the guy behind the sitcom Community. Nearly 10 years ago he filmed an online skit, a parody of Dexter, called Daryl. His fictional character abuses a doll. And over at Netflix they are not allowed to write ideas about fat girls becoming thinner. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44934692 Of course none of the outraged have actually seen either the skit, or the show. And it's all fiction we're talking about. FICTION. It's like suggesting computer games turn people into serial killers. Yeah it's a shame it has become so personal. We're in such a selfish age of individualism, everything has to be. So one cannot have an opinion any more without it becoming a character judgement. And one cannot defend a person's career and films, without also being seen to be defending the content of their jokes. John Lasseter is gone and nobody defended the guy. First they came for the celebrities and nobody spoke out... one day it will be the everyman, and still nobody will speak up. You're the one saying Kids Are Evil.

I agree with Rob's posts. Well reasoned.

http://collider.com/james-gunns-firing-guardians-of-the-galaxy/ "The jokes about rape and pedophilia that got James Gunn fired from his position as writer and director of Marvel’s hugely successful Guardians of the Galaxyfranchise are largely un-funny, tasteless, and in most cases disgusting. We should probably get that out of the way right up front, because to defend Gunn in the wake of Disney’s decision is—to a lot of reactionaries with itchy @ fingers—is to also defend the content of the tweets. But a surprisingly often overlooked part of the conversation is the fact that the ringleader of Gunn’s downfall, Mike Cernovich, had to scroll back to 2011 to find the tweets at all. Seven years, conveniently bypassing apologies and mea culpas, overlooking attempts at change, ignoring statements like the one Gunn posted just days before he was fired" "To deny someone the capacity to change is a dangerous precedent to set, not just in Hollywood where a person’s public life is on display 24/7 but to anyone engaging in the social media age. It sets the bar at, “What’s the point?” It gives the message that concepts like betterment and learning are futile because the sins of your past are an immovable weight that only gets heavier the harder you climb." "The Guardians of the Galaxymovies are, boiled down, stories about shitty people—rascals, thieves, assassins, criminals—learning through intense trial and error to be less shitty. Not just that, but the literal magic that comes with the realization that your past does not define you. One of the most genuinely insane opinions I’ve seen come out of this situation is, “I still love the Guardians movies, but I can’t support Gunn.” You learned nothing"

Clearly this topic is too edgy for some people. Personally I find it interesting. The culture and politics around it are interesting. I have also learnt that compared to the UK and Europe, the US in 2018 is a very politically correct and conservative society with easy to offend sensibilities. Feels like Victorian England out there! What's up with you guys? Lighten up!

It's a blog about camera tech. Go figure!

There's a place for this. It's called the SHOOTING forum!

Gervais on the Gunn situation. Right as always. Also see Humanity, on Netflix. It will be educational for quite a lot of people! Disney and even JK Rowling have no problem with Johnny Depp, who has been accused of worse things than making bad jokes or hugging in an office environment. None of them proven though, I might add. Do we really now have to go through our entire social media history dating back years and delete any jokes, for sake of our careers? Seems yes, we do, it's the new world we live in.

I think what this topic is telling me, is that the house of forum is due a spring clean. Damphousse was nearly banned in 2014 for his complete disregard for any form of respect for mods including myself as the site owner, and I let him stay... 4 years later, I think I'm out of any more tolerance. Maybe it is time to invite some new blood to post on the forum and find out who is the driftwood and isn't contributing.

How about collective responsibility?

12 tweets over 3 years? It's easy to lose talent if you're a politically correct corporation anyway. Corporations and politicians set such unrealistically perfect moral standards for behaviour, that Clinton can be brought down by emails. Trump on the other hand has set no such high bar for behaviour so can get away with anything. Disney can't tolerate the slightest thing from their employees, at any level. John Lasseter's gone too. For hugging!

Oh and you know this for sure... Ricky Gervais on stage, he's playing an extreme version of himself - a prick - and Gunn was doing the same here - a creepy perv - it's an act. It's not real.

See I told you it is dangerous to defend someone in the current climate. You're confusing my defence of a film director with defending paedophilia.... It's a carbon copy example of what I said earlier about our current odd climate of behaviour. And you're also confusing the target of the joke. The target of the provocative jokes were not abused children... but a monstrous comedic version of himself... which has no link to reality. It's pure fiction. A character. On a very trivial, casual medium (Twitter). As for "In a society where everyone has rights the best course of action is to offend as few people as possible." That is right out of a dystopian novel.

Is it fuck as like! You can have a complex multi-faceted opinion on something, pros and cons... and end up having more cons than pros, therefore you don't endorse. Ever been on a jury?! That would explain a lot. ?!??!

So fire comedians for making bad jokes... Who cares?! It's only freedom of expression at stake. If that is the kind of world we live in now, so be it.

Damphousse you prove my point. Nobody is beatifying Trump. I agree 100%. There is no middle ground. The internet has shaped public discourse into binary positions, like 1s and 0s. People are are getting very confused to be quite honest....for example Damphousse above is conflating my opinion and endorsement. Opinions do not equal endorsements. We're going through an era of western society which is not exactly our finest, and tribalism is taking over amidst all the kerfuffle. One is profiled for one's opinions constantly. For example I might be a liberal, Trump hating centre-ground voting British person, but if you state just one fact that people might misinterpret endorsing him, you're painted into a corner. Same with jokes. Make a bad taste one and it can be used against you in your career. Today, people misinterpret everything as personal... it always has to be personal! Opinions! Hang on, one could just be stating a fact.... But people will link that in their head to you endorsing the subject. And to hell with context. An example: Hilary Clinton ran a poor campaign, that's a fact. She lost, that's a fact. It could be interpreted as me being pro-Trump or as a personal opinion.... But she did. She was simply a poor campaigner. Unlike Bernie Sanders. The US is tearing itself apart over Trump and political ideologies. Corporate group-think has a lot to answer for too... Disney can't let themselves be associated in a binary argument with their values at stake vs some shitty joke on Twitter. Of course it's more complex than that... context (stream of thought and his tweets leading up to the jokes), meant as humour, not real, cyberspace, loose talk, banter - the public simply does not take this into account (it's small print and not in the news articles) so Disney had no choice but to fire him. That is truly scary groupthink. Here's a personal opinion of mine... this isn't a proven fact, but I honestly think our binary society is being noticed by our enemies. It is being weaponised by the Russians. If we don't sort ourselves out soon and come to our senses, they will rip right through us. They understand propaganda very well and are pitting us against each other. Liberal vs Conservative. Young vs Old. Canon vs Nikon. Windows vs Mac. They are exploiting the online landscape with bots, fake news and fake users, to cause toxic discourse. Some of them are on this very forum. It's happening everywhere, not just in the US. I haven't heard people talk about much else than Brexit in my home country for 2 years running... That is scary, and to be honest pretty weird. Most people aren't political, but today we are reading politics into our every move and every thought.

You have to persevere and look past the AI and JPEGs. Seems I gotta keep saying it... shoot 40MP raw and not the 10MP JPEGs, but I would think that would be obvious, especially when it's the main selling point of the phone, it happens in built in camera app, no third party app required, and it's fast to save a shot, less than 1 second in fact, which is amazing considering the resolution. Here is the iPhone X vs P20 Pro RAW. Click for full size... iPhone X P20 Pro DNG Until now phones have seen little benefit to their raw modes, with perhaps Samsung being best of the raw bunch. iPhone X and Google Pixel XL actually take a step backwards in raw, especially in low light. As for video, yes iPhone X is much better. 200% blow up of 100% crops... P20 Pro iPhone X

You shoot raw. No over processing, because raw isn't processed. The JPEGs are fine for social media use... But overcooked.

40MP RAW Quad Bayer is the future... It has dynamic range like I've never seen from a small sensor. Completely and utterly destroys iPhone X camera, which I had been very satisfied with. Proof coming soon

Superb director. But apparently people die "due to jokes" now https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44912175 It's pretty dangerous to defend Gunn though. given the current climate. Now I'm starting to realise why the buffoon wreaker Trump won the election. People are genuinely sick of the hysterical PC climate and the impact it has on real lives, yours and ours careers, and our art /freedom of expression.

It should be no problem on that powerful system (GTX 1060) to playback 4K H.265, as long as the OS and Premiere are both updated to the latest 2018 builds. Also make sure the graphics drivers are up to date. DaVinci Resolve is also worth a look, it's free from here: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/