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    Liam got a reaction from IronFilm in Sony to Sony speedbooster   
    Plus then you could just keep stacking speedboosters and use the same lens for any situation (as shown)
     


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    Liam reacted to IronFilm in GH5 vs Ursa Mini 4.6K   
    Working on a short film next week with a Panasonic Varicam LT! Looking forward to my first time getting my hands on it.
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    Liam reacted to Andrew Reid in New EOSHD front-page template, faster loading and full width articles   
    You guys don't seem to understand branding.
    You can't just throw something away you've spent the last 6 years building and people trust the name.
    I happen to like "EOSHD" as being a camera and video associated acronym you immediately know what the website is about and everybody has heard of "EOS" in relation to cameras.
    If you want to read your own meaning into it you can, it can stand for Electro Optical Super High Definition.
    If I'd taken advice from a couple of people it would be LumixHD by now... Meh
    Cinema4K would be too generic and AndrewReid dot com is taken by someone else so I am sticking to my guns!!
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    Liam reacted to benymypony in Free music for videos?   
    There are a lot of free songs on FreeMusicArchive, all genres: http://freemusicarchive.org/
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    Liam got a reaction from Jaime Valles in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    The nerve of Canon. Telling a lie, and ripping people off. The later is the worse of those to things.
    Ebrahim is such a slut.
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    Liam reacted to kaylee in Books worth reading on the path to become a better director   
    aww thats great i think youll really like it... itll definitely be great inspiration for your web comic...!!! i look forward to hearing your thoughts!!! ?
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    Liam got a reaction from kaylee in Books worth reading on the path to become a better director   
    Btw, I found a copy of this already, and after one page, I'm hooked
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    Liam got a reaction from IronFilm in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    I thought that too, but then I'd be on DPReview.. not worth it
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    Liam got a reaction from kaylee in Books worth reading on the path to become a better director   
    With less due respect, open your mind like a lot, Web.
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    Liam reacted to kaylee in Books worth reading on the path to become a better director   
    with all due respect, you have no idea whats in that book. maybe you should READ it, as i suggested
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    Liam reacted to Hans Punk in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
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    Liam got a reaction from noone in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    Ooo, interesting. It's definitely not as long as.. any other post he's ever made. Maybe his son is pretending to be him, carrying on the family.. you know.. shame
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    Liam reacted to fuzzynormal in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    Well, what were you eating yesterday, though?
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    Liam reacted to fuzzynormal in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    I like this 100 times... Not sure, but I think they hired the same guy(s) for their website GUI that got fired from the Sony menu design team.  Seriously, for something as visually aesthetic as the medium of photography, it's like they're deliberately trying to rape my eyeballs with their layout.
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    Liam got a reaction from fuzzynormal in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    I thought that too, but then I'd be on DPReview.. not worth it
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    Liam got a reaction from jase in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    I thought that too, but then I'd be on DPReview.. not worth it
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    Liam got a reaction from jonpais in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    I thought that too, but then I'd be on DPReview.. not worth it
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    Liam got a reaction from Chrad in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    The nerve of Canon. Telling a lie, and ripping people off. The later is the worse of those to things.
    Ebrahim is such a slut.
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    Liam reacted to BTM_Pix in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    I'm tempted to register there just to reply to him that the only way we'll definitively know if Canon are ripping us off is if we have to pay by Western Union and Canon tell us their mother is posting the 5DMKIVs back.
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    Liam reacted to Andrew Reid in Meanwhile, at DPReview...   
    Believe the random DPR commenter!
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    Liam reacted to Geoff CB in JVC GY-LS900 cinema camera rumored   
    Rooting for them. Hope they blow the doors off the competition. 
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    Liam reacted to TrueIndigo in Why film?   
    I can't remember when I actually made the switch from being a consumer to being a creator. All I knew was that when I was a kid I was fascinated with TV shows, old Hollywood movies and European art house films, so it seemed quite natural to want to create something that would have a similar effect on other people. My parents bought me a second hand Standard 8 cine camera, on which I shot home movies and animated toys on the carpet. This was followed by a new Super 8 camera, which I hard-matted with cardboard to fake the look of CinemaScope. I didn't realise then how important the fun side of things was to me. By the time I went to art college I had a 16mm Bolex, which kind've slowed me down because the stock costs were too much for pocket money. I used the 16mm cameras at the college for the course projects, but never really used my own camera very much, and eventually sold it about 10 years later (it had become just a wonderfully built ornament on the shelf).
    I followed my college friends to London and worked for a film and TV company for many years, working non-stop on TV series and that eventually wore me out -- I made a few personal projects along the way, but the joy of story-telling with film (as in those Standard-8 days) was just gone. I was also becoming tired of the city, too, so went back home where I can just go for a walk in the fields when I want to. I continued to work in multi-media, laying out books and magazines for a publishing house, then doing fine art printing for a gallery. I never forgot film making, though, because it was in me, but I wasn't doing anything about it. But then DV camcorder technology and affordable computer editing we're growing up together very nicely, and I was shooting just for the fun of it again. It was portable, it was cheap, it was available and eventually it was even full HD. And when the still cameras started recording video, well, there was a welcome filmic glamour to the video image that was quite exciting.
    Coming more up to date, I was a full-time staff video editor for a small local video production company, though after five very busy years, I've since gone freelance. Doing much less work (and pretty broke as a result), but I have more time to work on my own projects. After an abortive start on one film, I'm currently making the props for another feature length no-budget project. I just can't seem to shift the idea that film making is something I have to do. I recently wrote a novel, based on a character from one of the scripts I wrote about twenty years before, so that was me genuinely trying another medium. And the freedom of writing, compared to all the hoops you have to go through even for unambitious and informal film making like mine, is quite remarkable. I've now written half of the sequel, so I must enjoy it, but, there's something about film making that really means something important to me. Perhaps it's because I like working with people on a collaborative art project, whereas writing is a solitary experience. Or maybe it's just that you never really forget your first love: Watching mysterious and surreal TV series like The Avengers, or 1940's American film noirs, and wondering if I too could create such atmospheres and involving entertainments.
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    Liam reacted to Axel in Why film?   
    There are few contemporary feature length films I find interesting. No matter if it's mainstream or independent (or just independently produced but aiming for mass market), the patterns of the narrations seem to be final by now. You can tell every variation and theoretically give them names (like Kansas City Shuffle? ), you can watch the storylines develop and always stay ahead, because you've seen them all. This is not "inherent" (Inherent Vice, that was a crazy film and one of the exceptions, PTA has the mindset of a 70's filmmaker who questioned everything. Thousands of good films from everywhere over the world from this period), it's because mainstream audiences demand mainstream entertainment, and films are expensive. Short films and series can be more daring, for different reasons. And docs too.
    A novel consists of words. The story must be told in such a way (style, structure) that the reader sees his own personal movie. There is a word for this in german, Kopfkino, literally head cinema, when someones' words trigger an intense scene in your imagination. I'd say that reading a novel engages me more than watching a film, and not because the author is more talented than he filmmaker. Books are not too popular anymore, you'd write for very few. But unless someone exceptionally talented re-invents cinema and creates a mainstream masterpiece, you also shoot for very few.
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    Liam reacted to Snowfun in Why film?   
    It's a very social medium - people watch it together - and it is easy to share ones "product".
    I once carved a wooden rocking horse. Looked rather good. But I could only give it to one person which I felt was an inadequate reward for not inconsiderable effort. 
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    Liam reacted to Rava_Rama in PSA: Don't buy any gear! NAB 2017 is One Week Away   
    Pricetag 5k
    Terms & condition shoot only in Antarctica as it may overheat ?  
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