Andrew Reid

The demand for higher quality webcams just increased. Also, better quality laptop webcams (but problem is the thin lid, most are even thinner than a smartphone) But main issue is the online part... All compressed to hell and ugly as hell. Especially Skype, Facetime, etc. Looking at the news, the other thing that needs to be fixed is the angle of the webcam. They all point up people's noses!

And you are still asking same question 2 years later! https://mavicpilots.com/threads/mavic-2-pro-gimbal-stabilizer.51558/ Silly Russian bot.

I think I understand why they do it. On some phones for example a 3x or 5x zoom is only achievable with a digital zoom and upscaling. On some it is assisted by longer optics AND digital zoom from higher resolution sensor. Well, it's an unfair comparison and it isn't... It does show up the phones that are limited compositions beyond 2x. It shows how much resolution they have in reserve for cropping too. Also digital zooms are a key part of the AI and image processing on all phones these days, much more of a key ability than on our pro stills cameras that are 42MP+ I wish they had compared it to the Mate 30 Pro. Also the shots in general seem less adventurous than previously. Maybe they had to do this review under lockdown. Which would be ironic as the guy who wrote up this DXO article is Lars Rehm, an ex-friend of mine who decided to point the finger at me when I posted the Barcelona empty street shots on Facebook... Rather than ask if I was ok being stuck in a pandemic... his chief concern was that I was encouraging people to take photos during an emergency and lockdown. What a twit. It would be funny if he then went out on the streets and took a load of photos himself with the P40 Pro

Can you show which sample shots they are comparing native vs digital zoom? I'll take a look

One of the largest sensors yet in a smartphone, with new AI RAW and more https://www.dxomark.com/huawei-p40-pro-camera-review/ Still using US parts despite blacklist...

I've not got an X-T4 yet but it looks very good. Although it's not quite the revolution people expected. I'd rather get an X-H2... Who knows if there will be one though. I always preferred the X-H1 and NX1 handling and ergonomics to the X-T3 / X-T4 style body. The latter are also really well built, superb pro quality high-end feel in the hand whereas the X-T series always felt a bit lightweight. X-T4 seems to have some subtle improvements ergonomically But the NX1 nailed the "mirrorless DSLR" feel in terms of responsiveness and direct control. The NX1 image is amazing in 4K, stands up very well in 2020 especially with the high bitrate hack. It can't really do ISO 6400 and above though. In many ways it was 4-5 years ahead of the game. It is also an exceptional stills camera. I wouldn't swap my NX1 for the X-T4. I'd buy the Fuji first and decide if I like it, then go back to the NX1 if not.

Blackmagic fan detected.

Shall we get to know each other a bit better so we can look beyond the opinion soup? How about I challenge you to a camera meet-up, forum style... 1. Show us a picture of your current most used camera and lens 2. Tell us a few facts about yourself! 3. What's your favourite music, favourite sport / team, other hobbies 4. What your hopes are for the future of EOSHD, what would you like me to cover - and the camera you are looking forward to most? 5. Tell me what you miss about your country and home town when you are not there 6. The year you first started reading EOSHD ***** To make each post easy to read please number the answers 1-6 ***** Go!

I think anybody using the internal preamps and 3.5mm jack will be recording very casual audio anyway So does the quality even matter that much?

There is however the Sony XLR-K3M XLR Adaptor Kit Would be interesting to see if that fixes the A7 III audio hiss. You can also add frequency cuts and other effects to clean up audio in post. So all is not lost for Sony users but definitely the worse of the bunch!

Another thread bites the dust.

Here we go again I'm not banning free speech. I'm trying to increase the quality of speech on this forum, which is after all a knowledge-base that is supposed to be of use to people and to help people. It is not yours to abuse for a political agenda. You are asked to leave.

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What are you afraid of? Said something you shouldn't?

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/scientists-worry-brain-wasting-zombie-deer-disease-could-spread-humans/rjpiryXSOn92IxD9qVx1ZL/ Time to become a vegetarian.

Ah it's that age old argument again... if it doesn't shock you, it must be ok! It seems we have found a man so apt at missing the point, that if the point was the size of Matterhorn he would still miss it. The lab in Wuhan had a range of natural viruses and the animals carrying natural pathogens. If scientists believe SARS-CoV-2 to be of natural origins, that still does not disprove the theory it spread from a lab accident or corrupt trade in exotic animals. Pangolins smuggled into China illegally have been found to contain viruses similar to the one now sweeping the world. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52048195?fbclid=IwAR09mfAnXmBjClzGsLDiKh6PmdXJvMKSYbO4bpw_CtKYXRICw2l-jWDifwg Are you still insisting the Chinese government doesn't owe us an apology? Should this kind of thing continue after 2020?

There is a rebuttal which appears to be published on behalf of the Chinese government, and "shell" company Shanghai Shangyixun Cultural Communications... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2020.1733440 All part of a continued cover-up exercise? Or genuine science?

Even in the safest labs in the US, there have also been mishaps. https://www.nature.com/news/biosafety-in-the-balance-1.15447 "Anthrax is contracted by direct exposure to spores, and does not spread between people. Much more potentially dangerous are lab accidents involving agents that do. It is impossible to read about the CDC incident and not breathe a large sigh of relief that it did not involve a novel engineered pandemic influenza strain."

I should be editing my footage from the F1 However I can't get this out of my head... It's extraordinary... In 2004 Chinese researchers in a lab working on SARS coronaviruses became ill. They had become effected with the very viruses they were researching. Suddenly SARS was back out in the community. Big scandal at the time but thankfully these workers were isolated immediately and SARS doesn't have a very big contagion vector. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-analysis/sars-escaped-beijing-lab-twice-50137 In 2013 researchers in China showed that one of the coronaviruses circulating in horseshoe bats could bind to human lung cells. The Chinese government didn't really do much to stop the trade in bat meat and kept it on sale at markets. In 2015 researchers in Wuhan went further... Creation of a chimaera From the scientific journal Nature, November 2015: https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews "An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks. "In an article published in Nature Medicine on 9th November, scientists investigated a virus called SHC014, which is found in horseshoe bats in China. The researchers created a chimaeric virus, made up of a surface protein of SHC014 and the backbone of a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and to mimic human disease. The chimaera infected human airway cells — proving that the surface protein of SHC014 has the necessary structure to bind to a key receptor on the cells and to infect them. It also caused disease in mice, but did not kill them." "The findings reinforce suspicions that bat coronaviruses capable of directly infecting humans (rather than first needing to evolve in an intermediate animal host) may be more common than previously thought, the researchers say. "But other virologists question whether the information gleaned from the experiment justifies the potential risk. Although the extent of any risk is difficult to assess, Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says." Some of my thoughts... 1. The reputable journal Nature has added a disclaimer to the original article, saying there's no proof the current coronavirus is engineered 2. However I find it an incredible coincidence that the ONLY level 4 microbiology research lab in China handling deadly coronaviruses is in Wuhan, of all places. 3. Then there's the strange reaction of the Chinese government in December and January, including towards doctors who reported the initial cases of what we now know of COVID-19. Intimidation, cover-ups, you name it. 4. Maj. Gen. Chen Wei, China's top bioweapons expert and others were dispatched to the Wuhan lab in January (According to - https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/) 5. As early as 2013, the Chinese government researchers knew SHC014 and similar coronaviruses could bind to key receptor ACE2 in human lungs... But the wild animal markets stayed open. Why did China not open up about what they knew and take action on the markets? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552008 6. Many in the scientific community questioned the grave risks of such research at the time but China pressed on. Their government clearly wished to know if SHC014 could bind to ACE2 if it made the leap to humans. I am not suggesting they were searching for biological weapon ingredients... But damn, did they find one. From Nature: "[The study findings] move this virus from a candidate emerging pathogen to a clear and present danger”. Useful to know, but it didn't stop certain people eating the hosts of such pathogens... or potentially trading ex-lab animals on the black market. In fact some Chinese researchers have been previously jailed for doing exactly that. 7. Going so far as to make this chimera virus, an engineered bat virus tested on mice, strikes me as incredibly dangerous research, open to all sorts of abuse and accidents. 8. In Wuhan, the "gain-of-function" research on viruses seeks to understand the genetic makeup and specifics of virus-host interaction... In other words, how can we gain the function to effect other hosts like humans, and what can we learn from it? Risky science, or purposefully malign? Either way, the Chinese government owes the world a massive apology. The bat meat and wild animal markets selling bats should have stopped at least 5 years ago. The Wuhan research lab safety standards need to be transparent and any cases of corruption made public. And an agreement with the rest of the world should be signed by the Chinese military, promising never to conduct research for the production of bioweapons. Harry Patch, the last surviving British soldier of World War I said before he died - "the next war will be chemical, and they will never learn". Guess he was right.

Maybe you have better things to do Cinegain than make a list of my friends and imply everyone left because of a disagreement with me over politics. Many of those you mention are close friends of mine and still are. Just because they haven't got time to engage with idiots like you, doesn't mean to say they no longer read the blog. Ed David, Christina Ava, Volker, JB, Andy Lee, Neumann Films, JG Harding, Brian Caldwell, Luca Butera, all those are friends but they can't be around a forum every day for 5 years straight. Some of them will have other things going on in their lives. I'd be more than happy to see Mattias post more but he has a busy YouTube channel now that takes a lot of his time. The reason 99% of the good quality members leave is exactly because of the bullshit and Trump fanaticism. If I could leave myself at the moment I would! PS The exception was that Richard Gale was a massive Trump and Brexit fan.... tipping point for him was me being anti-Brexit on Facebook... Lost a friend there over Brexit.... He fell out with me and was never seen again here. Politics has never been more toxic online. But I can't help people when it comes to the bullshit they believe. It's up to them to overcome their delusions. Oh and by the way, the creep Jon Pais, moderator from the very early days, turned into a lunatic you may remember and his behaviour as mod was a turn off to 90% of the members of this forum. So I had to ease him out of the role and then he turned into this crazy bitter guy, a Sony fanboy, you may remember, who polluted every thread he posted on and then started posting nasty lunatic comments on his own blog about EOSHD. So he showed his true face in the end. I don't ban in a knee jerk way... This was a guy I trusted as a mod, for many years. But if someone crosses me in my own home, they are a deadman walking. You have to remember this is a community. If you want better people to join, and bigger names to engage, then we need to look at the quality of our own posts first. Is it useful? Is it interesting? Does it help people? If so, you get pros joining, talented artists joining, filmmakers and loyal people who stick around compelled to read what we say day in day out.

It's all very well being a fella in the gold rush taking what you can and not giving anything back... What about me as moderator who has to keep a positive atmosphere in the forums and track down trouble makers? Are you saying I shouldn't bother and just let the place go to shit?

If I were coming on this forum saying Great Britain was the best country in the world every day, I wonder how long people would last before they got fed up. This is what I have to put up with from certain Americans all the time. This is an appeal to them.... Shut up, or fuck off.

There is a deeply suspicious element to it with the suspect fake user campaign. Of course I am not going to stand by and let it get worse and if I lose a few 'genuine' Trump provocateurs in the process it's not a great loss to be frank. We all have a responsibility now to pull together.

In an ideal world we could agree to disagree on our politics. But seems some don't even read what I said...I don't care which way you voted, as long as you don't bring unethical toxic idiotic posts into my community. In addition there are literally people joining the forum to steer a political discussion in a topic or steer a thread off-topic, in favour of their idol Trump. This is deeply suspicious and points to a kind of fake user linked to a campaign of some sort.

No, we are not censoring ourselves because of some fuckwits. Politics are allowed. Wankers aren't.