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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from zerocool22 in Is the era of Vimeo ending?   
    Thank you to all who have resurrected this thread - you reminded me that I have to cancel my Vimeo plan before the end of the month!
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from webrunner5 in Is the era of Vimeo ending?   
    Thank you to all who have resurrected this thread - you reminded me that I have to cancel my Vimeo plan before the end of the month!
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from zerocool22 in Looking for a english newspaper   
    Try Bruxelles Midi station - they sell it there (although it might be the international edition). I don't have a subscription, I'm afraid, as I read it online. I can buy a copy and post it to you if you like. PM me your address.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Parker in DJI Mavic Air   
    I'm after more of an Elven drone myself.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Dave Maze in Please Help Me Find A Drone For My Short   
    Depends on your budget on all this. But this is how I would do it.
    - DJI Phantom 4 Pro at least (best IQ at affordable price) if you have more $$ then the inspire 2 with X7 is incredible. 
    - 8 ft jib 
    attach the drone to the jib and use the jib to get the move in the room. The drone will be turned on so the gimbal will be on, but you don’t need to use the blades. You can operate the camera from the app and use the jib to get repeatable motions. 
     
    Then for the second shot use the drone like normal. Easy for the P4 Pro. Make sure you change the maximum altitude to maybe like 300 ft or something to get that huge move you want. 
    By doing this you keep the image consistent between the indoor stuff and the exterior. 
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from kaylee in The pleasure and beauty of a NO lowlight camera! the beauty of AJA CION   
    Maybe, but the Cion would look much nicer on a display shelf in my lounge.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from PannySVHS in The pleasure and beauty of a NO lowlight camera! the beauty of AJA CION   
    Maybe, but the Cion would look much nicer on a display shelf in my lounge.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to HockeyFan12 in Hey YouTube and Facebook - time to stop burying the good stuff with wall-to-wall bullshit   
    Be careful throwing that term (Cultural Marxism) around, it carries strong anti-Semitic connotations. I agree that a lot of social media is designed to be addictive (which isn't good), but I don't think YouTube is part of a global conspiracy, zionist or otherwise. (If anything, it's capitalism's fault for YouTube pushing the lowest common denominator to please shareholders... not that I'm anti-capitalist, just in favor of some regulation or community backlash, perhaps.)
    That's not to say there isn't something wrong. But it's also nothing new. We saw a very similar narrative (anti-globalist, anti-cosmopolitan pro-cultural identity) before WWII. There was a similar rise of "strong man" leaders, then, too. In contemporaneous literature, the Wasteland was largely about the loss of cultural identity in London. And even Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces explores the loss of ceremony and tradition in Western Civilization... A lot of the themes they explore are the same themes Richard Spencer focuses on, except, you know, without the white supremacy...
    In a way, these forums are surrogate communities offering their own tribal identities. It's kind of funny. We should be spending more time with real communities, actually making films. But it feels a need, and we learn a lot.
    And on the flip side, there's historically less famine now than ever in human history, quality of life is higher, and there's far less hot war now than is historically typical (let's hope that trend continues). I don't see how that's suicide. I do think there are deep problems to address, but they're not insurmountable unless we convince ourselves they are.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from mercer in Inspirational Photographers   
    I'm a fan of his work too - although I sometimes think 'Crikey, this guy has decorated his house and dresses his kids in such a way that he can always get a nice retro looking shot'! I think he does quite well out of selling presets too (and yes, he's mainly a Fuji guy).
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Hans Punk in Why YouTuber Logan Paul can't put his camera down   
    This all shows how detached people have become (often them pesky youngsters) on how much power the internet can yield and bite you in the ass when you get cocky. Dipshit kids will always exist - we actually need them, we all make mistakes and often learn valuable life lessons from young age and hopefully grow up to be better people. But when you have millions of followers that you know are mostly young and possibly impressionable, there should at least be a moral obligation to think about what you are putting out there for the kiddies to see. I think apologising afterwards because of the ‘backlash’ is a bit too late...it is often clear that the tears in the eyes are really caused by fear of their channel and revenue being cut off, not genuine remorse. Earning revenue from your apology video is a bit of a giveaway...that at least should be donated to a suicide prevention charity. YouTube should be held accountable up to a point (morally and sometimes legally), but the largest responsibility should rest on the shoulders of the content makers themselves. Imagine what wonderful content could exist if those who created were not purely infected with the monetary incentive of ‘likes’ and ‘subscribes’ and paid for promotion bullshit.
    Putting cultural value or gauging fame on the amount of likes or subscribers someone has is like telling me how many people in the world ordered a Big Mac in one day...impressive stats if you want to represent McDonald’s at a fast food conference, but otherwise pointless. If you want to stop Gorden Ramsey spitting your lamb cutlets back in your face after you prepared a meal for him, you don’t cook up some frozen substandard shit that the masses seem to accept. You make something of worth and quality to impress...or don’t bother - and appeal to the suckers who can’t taste the difference.
    Perhaps I’ve only seen crappy YouTube ‘stars’...they just all appear to be like self serving arrogant cocks who remind me exactly of the people I would not invite to my yacht for afternoon tea and scones.
    YouTube stars ain’t ‘my bag’ so needless to say I have no cultural value associated with them at all...so this recent news sadly has no shock value for me, other than feel sorry for the video-bombed dead guy and his grieving family. It now seems that other YouTube stars are now condemning this guys actions...behold, the moral authority have spoken! We are truly living inside an episode of Black Mirror.
    Disclaimer: I’ve never seen anything I’d class as entertainment on YouTube, other than Red Letter Media videos and the occasional live streaming from a house full of cats.
    The only positive reminder from this whole debacle, no matter how much you care (or not) - is to post on your social media feed the number of your local suicide helpline/ Mental health outreach programme and share it with friends. There is a very good chance it will reach someone you care about and remind them that help is out there.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from kaylee in Inspirational Photographers   
    https://www.junocalypso.com/
    June Calypso's work is dramatic, enigmatic, cinematic and flawlessly executed. I absolutely love her stuff.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from Damphousse in Why YouTuber Logan Paul can't put his camera down   
    YouTube, social media and the web in general is still at the stage of being a world-wide social experiment of which no-one (or their kids) asked to be the subjects and that's controlled not by scientists but by corporations whose only duty is to their shareholders. And we wonder why the whole shit house is going up in flames.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from PannySVHS in Why YouTuber Logan Paul can't put his camera down   
    YouTube, social media and the web in general is still at the stage of being a world-wide social experiment of which no-one (or their kids) asked to be the subjects and that's controlled not by scientists but by corporations whose only duty is to their shareholders. And we wonder why the whole shit house is going up in flames.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from hyalinejim in Why YouTuber Logan Paul can't put his camera down   
    YouTube, social media and the web in general is still at the stage of being a world-wide social experiment of which no-one (or their kids) asked to be the subjects and that's controlled not by scientists but by corporations whose only duty is to their shareholders. And we wonder why the whole shit house is going up in flames.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from maxotics in Why YouTuber Logan Paul can't put his camera down   
    YouTube, social media and the web in general is still at the stage of being a world-wide social experiment of which no-one (or their kids) asked to be the subjects and that's controlled not by scientists but by corporations whose only duty is to their shareholders. And we wonder why the whole shit house is going up in flames.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to IronFilm in ARRI Alexa cheap enough to own now?   
    To sum it up: "risk minimization".

    When you're spending millions on a movie (or tens and tens of thousands on a 30 second ad spot), then you don't want to take unnecessary risks. You go with the tried and proven.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from IronFilm in ARRI Alexa cheap enough to own now?   
    Image quality is only half the story at most, surely. My understanding is that high end productions use Alexas because they rarely go wrong, but when they do there's an unrivalled international network of companies that can repair or replace them at extremely short notice. Also they are an integral part of an established professional workflow, from support and grip through to edit and grading, that's entirely familiar to industry professionals in every corner of the world.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from webrunner5 in ARRI Alexa cheap enough to own now?   
    Image quality is only half the story at most, surely. My understanding is that high end productions use Alexas because they rarely go wrong, but when they do there's an unrivalled international network of companies that can repair or replace them at extremely short notice. Also they are an integral part of an established professional workflow, from support and grip through to edit and grading, that's entirely familiar to industry professionals in every corner of the world.
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    Tim Sewell reacted to andrgl in Kinefinity Terra 4k has landed   
    Not a chanse. ;)
     
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    Tim Sewell reacted to salim in Kinefinity Terra 4k has landed   
    this is so good that makes me cry 
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    Tim Sewell reacted to Mattias Burling in Fuji X-H1: new APSC video oriented camera   
    Careful or someone will come with a chart showing that you are wrong and calling you an idiot for not knowing that you according to the numbers like cake
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from webrunner5 in Kinefinity Terra 4k has landed   
    That camera has a beautiful look to it from these quick shots - looking forward to seeing more (and have cut up my credit cards).
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from sanveer in “The Middle Path”: A Lumix GH5s Short   
    FWIW, Photo Rumors just posted this: https://photorumors.com/2017/12/14/here-are-the-detailed-panasonic-gh5s-specifications/
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from IronFilm in Does anybody know this camera? Anybody shot a feature with it already?   
    The video in the OP is one of the funniest things I've seen this year - I'm going to have to watch it all the way through this evening. Apparently Jim is now up to 'over 150' movies, according to IMDB.
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    Tim Sewell got a reaction from PannySVHS in Does anybody know this camera? Anybody shot a feature with it already?   
    The video in the OP is one of the funniest things I've seen this year - I'm going to have to watch it all the way through this evening. Apparently Jim is now up to 'over 150' movies, according to IMDB.
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