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Xiong reacted to a post in a topic: Top Gear - Clarkson contract won't be renewed by BBC. Should there be one rule for talent, one rule for "the rest"?
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Xiong reacted to a post in a topic: Top Gear - Clarkson contract won't be renewed by BBC. Should there be one rule for talent, one rule for "the rest"?
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That Guy reacted to a post in a topic: Top Gear - Clarkson contract won't be renewed by BBC. Should there be one rule for talent, one rule for "the rest"?
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Lammy reacted to a post in a topic: Top Gear - Clarkson contract won't be renewed by BBC. Should there be one rule for talent, one rule for "the rest"?
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Most of the people in the comments disagree with you, so why on Earth would you assume that everyone else who read the post without commenting agrees with you? I don't think you can rely on your site statistics being an indication of how many unique visitors you have either. There are probably quite a few of us checking in regularly on the progress of this discussion. I don't think anyone here is arguing that Clarkson positively endorses it. People have various ways of rationalizing their own behavior or excusing their own mistakes as exceptions, but if he's going to do things like this, ther
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dan reacted to a post in a topic: Top Gear - Clarkson contract won't be renewed by BBC. Should there be one rule for talent, one rule for "the rest"?
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Lammy reacted to a post in a topic: Top Gear - Clarkson contract won't be renewed by BBC. Should there be one rule for talent, one rule for "the rest"?
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If you like Top Gear, you should be angry at Clarkson for messing it up, not the BBC. What's happened is completely on him. The fact that Clarkson is despised by the left is irrelevant, the "PC police" can't be blamed for him punching the producer, and he should be held accountable for it like anyone else would be. The same standards have to be applied universally. That means minor crew and it means talent such as Clarkson, David O. Russell, Christian Bale or anyone else. The fact that some talent have gotten away with vaguely similar things is no argument for allowing Clarkson to as well. And
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Top Gear - Clarkson contract won't be renewed by BBC. Should there be one rule for talent, one rule for "the rest"?
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Fisticuffs end new "Top Gear" series - how the BBC risked biggest franchise over catering fracas
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Lammy reacted to a post in a topic: Fisticuffs end new "Top Gear" series - how the BBC risked biggest franchise over catering fracas
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I couldn't agree more with this statement. As for Andrew's comments about how important Top Gear is to the BBC, the only relevant question is whether the allegations against Clarkson are true or not. The profitability of Top Gear is completely irrelevant unless you believe moral exceptions should be made when profits are at stake. Imagine someone making the same argument about Saville. It would be an absolute disgraceful position to take. The allegations against Clarkson aren't anything like as serious, but the argument about moral consistency still applies.
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Fisticuffs end new "Top Gear" series - how the BBC risked biggest franchise over catering fracas
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Fisticuffs end new "Top Gear" series - how the BBC risked biggest franchise over catering fracas
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Fisticuffs end new "Top Gear" series - how the BBC risked biggest franchise over catering fracas
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Fisticuffs end new "Top Gear" series - how the BBC risked biggest franchise over catering fracas
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Fisticuffs end new "Top Gear" series - how the BBC risked biggest franchise over catering fracas
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Samsung NX1 - which is 4K video and which is the 28MP raw still? Can you tell?
tpr replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
As jcs notes, both images are now 8-bit jpegs, so this talk of 8-bit versus 10-bit isn't entirely convincing. Second, you'll notice that the blue color patches 6 and 8 appear more similar in the B image than in the A image, unlike the reds in 31 and 37 which, as you pointed out earlier, are more similar in A than B. It makes sense that the reds will be less distinct and the blues more distinct in an image biased towards a warmer white balance. -
Samsung NX1 - which is 4K video and which is the 28MP raw still? Can you tell?
tpr replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Those colors may appear closer together in A because of the warmer white balance. I don't think distinctness of colors is a good way to identify a raw image. Think of a raw image in its flat unprocessed form. There is a lot more information there, but before processing, all the colors look very neutral and similar. The colors appear more distinct when tonal contrast is increased and we can't in principle know whether the contrast in a set of images was introduced via in-camera jpeg/video processing, color grading or processing on a raw image, so it's a bit hard to tell which was responsible. -
tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Samsung NX1 - which is 4K video and which is the 28MP raw still? Can you tell?
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Big news - Samsung NX1 with 4K, 24p and **H.265 HVEC codec**
tpr replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
Live stream discussion about the Samsung NX1 from Photokina: -
A fairly obvious question missing from both lists is if they have any 4K capable cameras in the works that will be priced within the reach of non-professionals. In the same vein, you could ask whether we should expect to see other video-oriented features like higher frame rates, zebras, peaking, image stabilization, quiet operation, aperture control on Nikons, and so on, which could lead to an interesting discussion of why projects like Magic Lantern exist and the competing demands of stills and video on a hybrid camera. I'd also be interested in whether they are planning to enter the high
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: Official firmware update brings XAVC-S and 120fps to Sony RX10
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tpr reacted to a post in a topic: 54 mentions of video vs 32 of photos in Nikon D810 press release
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54 mentions of video vs 32 of photos in Nikon D810 press release
tpr replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
It's hard to tell what it would look like without youtube's compression, but there are some issues: 1. Moire at 54s. 2. Rolling shutter at 8m18s. 3. It's basically your fault if you don't succeed even if the economic system is rigged to direct more wealth to the wealthiest at 2m39s. -
jebbyderinger reacted to a post in a topic: 54 mentions of video vs 32 of photos in Nikon D810 press release
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54 mentions of video vs 32 of photos in Nikon D810 press release
tpr replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
According to the press release, they've added zebras! Woohoo! -
Blackmagic to release new 'unified' firmware update for all cameras
tpr replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
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This mechanism on metal legs looks like something out of The War of the Worlds.
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Sony AX100 4K video camera - how much rolling shutter is too much?
tpr replied to Andrew Reid's topic in Cameras
There are some panning shots in this AX100 clip from around the 7:40 mark, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere near as much rolling shutter as in the other video: