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It's being hoovered up by Meta and X. Facebook Groups especially. Most of the content on the internet is now on just a few major social media networks. Smartphones are partly responsible as a desktop website doesn't work as well as an app on a small screen without a keyboard. Yes definitely a shift to video informercials. The enjoyment they get out of cars and hifi is huge. But a car without a road and hifi without music isn't very much fun. With cameras it's the same, they are only fulfilling when you have something worthwhile to shoot, or at least the expectation of something in the future, other than just testing, but unfortunately there is less stuff worthwhile to shoot around at the moment. Fewer actors, writers, communities of artists, and less beauty in the world full stop. Yeah a lot of the leading pros have withdrawn back into their careers and don't give as much input into the community. When it was an emerging area they were all over it, but I guess the use (and knowledge) they can get out of us peaked a long time ago. Yeah this is a good point, have noticed that. This comes with the hyper-subjective and ultra-personal perspective of most people today rather than being part of a collective and objective whole. Each person has their atomised 'version' of the truth. Very relevant thoughts. I feel the same way. Hopefully things take a turn for the better soon and people go back to being more productive and spend less time on their phones.

Wiseguy, do you know about GoPro Labs firmware? As usual, you get your info from the internet and pass on what you read. Two people instruct you on your false information, but you go on. I have personally shot 200Mbps 5.3k GoPro videos. Read by metadata as 200Mbps. I can't say I notice a big difference, but the option is there. GoPro Labs firmware. Google that. Maybe also get a GoPro, learn what it can do, and get back to us after you have actual experience. Let's see if you can refrain from making a nasty reply to cover your doubling down on your mistake.

Knowing GoPro, it would be 8K, but still limited to 120Mbps. Fast forward to 2035 and the GoPro21 is released with the headline feature of 20K video.... at 180Mbps.

Another great bit of advice I got in my early days was to go study paintings. Particularly Vermeer's and Caravaggio's. As an idiot that didn't understand what made a nice image work and a bad one fail, just analyzing and deconstructing the craft of painting helped a ton. Absolutely brand-dead simple ideas like having your subject brighter than the background (contrast) confounded me as a newbie, but once I started seeing the techniques like that in practice I couldn't unsee it, and I got better. Which is why I'm pretty camera agnostic these days. There's so many fundamental techniques that need to be in place and exercised to create awesome images. Grabbing the most expensive camera/lens doesn't accomplish that for you, it only assists.

I watched Oppenheimer yesterday and I wish I went to Barbie. Half joking of course but the movie is very long and hard to follow at times. It looks and sounds great, as expected but it could've benefited from tighter editing.