Andrew Reid

And now we have a hip hop wannabe gangster with a monotonous drum machine and a vocoder. I better get on and read this one first Have only just started. Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) has an album called Amused to Death. I highly recommend listening to that while reading the book. That's even more light summer holiday content for the masses that is

To look at a lot of the BBC output you would not think they have exacting broadcast standards. Andrew Marr show for several years used an old B camera for interviews that looked so different to the main camera, you'd think it was broken. The quality of the broadcast as it ends up on most screens is usually moire-ridden. C300 is used a lot and that absolutely PALES in comparison to what the S1 is capable of. Netflix on the other hand do have much higher demands on technology. The BBC will say they do and do the big ritual and test, but when it comes to the output you only have to look at it. The cameras they used on Top Gear a few years ago in-car were terrible for instance... and now they are using GH5S. So I am sure the S1 is good enough... even if Alan says No.

Not just dumbed down, I think our ethics are slipping as well. And the music.

Well said!! At the end of the day, it's pure greed driving the consumer market... for a company like Canon 8 billion is nowhere near enough. It's planetary conquest, empire building, constant growth and maniacal greed.

Just downscale the 4K in post. Done. But really it boils down to viewing it right. Complaining 4K of this standard is too detailed is a bit like scanning film and then complaining the scan is too good!

Abuse pure and simple. If it's abuse and anti social behaviour dressed up as experimental comedy on YouTube, and even if idiots like @thebrothersthre3 think it's 'funny tho'... Still abuse. He's a level of psychopath up from Jake Paul. There's a line between abuse and a prank. Ask the woman in the first video believing she was about to be gang raped. And any so-called-entertainment with this level of ethics doesn't deserve our attention anyway. Even if the whole thing's faked (it's probably not, more like a mixture), I am surprised he hasn't been sued several times or even jailed. There are way too many people in this world making light of gutter behaviour, thinking it's entertainment... Reinforced my point 10x what I was making in the original topic.

FUNNY BRO Funny, as in funny, I could have sworn he was an obnoxious little attention seeking psychopath with no empathy, borderline criminal, with a major personality disorder. If you genuinely think he's funny, I'll look at you as well and resoundingly shake my head. Maybe you're part of the whole problem and people like you. I mean it.

I think it's an updated sensor compared to the similar 24MP one in the A7 III. It's certainly very good... No scrub that, it's spectacular. Dynamic range, colour, low light, speed, everything. With an internal codec this good, I don't want 4K raw over HDMI to tick a box, I want it internally. Yes, I am spoilt! No, I don't want to use an external recorder. Nice of them to try it though.

Another horror show... Check this one out And I thought Jake Paul was bad.

I don't really see what the difference is between the Alexa and S1 from a Vimeo clip. In fact I'd say they were closely matched looking at the above. But you have to compare like with like. The lighting is very soft throughout as well, which helps. The grading is soft and contrast is soft. My test with the cars in bright sunlight converted to Rec.709 looks very crisp in comparison to a softly lit face in a studio with an almost ungraded flat file. Take an S1 and Alexa on same shoot and then find out what the difference is.

You'll have to trust me on this one, not your screen. The footage off the card has a low micro contrast, gentle fine detail, not hard edges or too sharp, video-look. And if you wish for a softer look there are a million $0 ways of going about it with 4K. One of them is simply to shoot 1080p and upscale to 4K. But that would be missing out on the full bandwidth this sensor and codec providing.

Foreword from Amusing Ourselves To Death, 1991: We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian Nightmares. But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Country to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As we saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. What well feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell was right. Some much recommended light Summer holiday reading.

You don't need to, just understand the principal behind what I'm saying.

At least we'll have some good new material for a sci-fi film soon. I agree. Elite athletics is another subversive area. I'd wager that 80% of the next generation looking at teaching careers don't want to go into technical areas, they will want to get involved teaching sport, for the lifestyle hotness. It's like in that other topic, the medium is the message. You're absolutely right it's one circular mind fuck alright. When you have people's time and actions dominated by social media, people are then controlled effectively by a network of machines.

No, it's just what happens when you scale 4K in an embedded player over the web, especially on a phone screen or a 1080p laptop. If you play the original 10bit H.264 on a 4K laser projector, you'd change your opinion of the camera.

Whenever I feel depressed about the state of YouTube I have a laugh at Ethan's channel. One of the best at lampooning the worst of YouTube behaviour. The medium, being a computer based algorithm, is not much cop at curating a culture. So of course it has convinced people that fakery and lies are real... the biggest prank of all is Brexit. It would be interesting to know which channels the young generation are aspiring to be like... Pewdiepie probably comes close to the top. Professional Fortnite players on Twitch maybe. It's not got much humanity in it... It's all very machine driven. After all, it's a machine driven medium. Fake lives are now real lives. Fake news is now shaping the real agenda. And in the eyes of the next generation, those pedalling the fake lives may as well be superstars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message Any old dated shit for an idea gets attention on YouTube if it has a hotness factor. 15 million views Do you think next generation see themselves dicking around in posh house with a swimming pole making casual fair like this. Do you reckon our culture is fucked? Or am I just having an old man moment?

Bullshit

Yes the image is playing in the big league. Hard to show on YouTube. I've decided to self-host the video. I'll upload the higher bitrate version to Vimeo later today. Here are my thoughts on it so far... https://www.eoshd.com/2019/07/panasonics-10bit-v-log-on-the-s1-review-the-full-frame-eva1/

I like Carl Sagan. Clever guy. As far as the cosmos knowing itself, I don't think the cosmos can ever truly know itself, because itself changes with every passing second. What I spoke about above doesn't need to be high-concept, if we see the world as an interconnected system and the connections between people change as new technology and systems gets introduced... It becomes a lot easier to grasp what's going on in our own lives too. We are certainly changing as a society, that is for sure. Did you know, in the UK... The number one job the next generation of kids aspire to is... YouTuber / Vlogger. Scary stuff.

There are very few spammers on the forum, just a few bots slipped through the net that's all. But I still need help identifying problematic accounts, so you know where to post reports now - in this thread. Would be great, thanks.

How the process works... Millions of Russian and Chinese A.I. bots register at forums around the world, beating down the first line defence (Captcha) Most are obvious when they make their first post. The first post from new registrations here are completely hidden to you guys and only shown for me so I can filter them out. I read the post and make a judgement on whether it's a real person or not. 99% it's easy. 1% of the time, a more sophisticated bot like you describe here will slip through but doing a cut and paste or convincing camera related topic. This is where I need your help. If you spot repeated behaviour like this and you think it's a bot, please flag them in this topic or email me!

Some topics I am researching for a documentary at the moment... I really like Adam Curtis on the BBC, he's made some incredible stuff. His collaboration with Massive Attack on a film with live sound track was a highlight. So was Bitter Lake. What stood out about that one, was his riff on the film Solaris... Our anamorphic LOMO favourite by Tarkovsky. In the movie, the Russians encounter a planet which causes strange hallucinations on board the spacecraft, like the captain's dead wife appearing. As part of the research mission they notice that they can change the surface of the planet by irradiating it, not realising that all along the planet was irradiating them. It is interesting, because at the same time the movie was made in the 1960's, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "the medium is the message". Here is where things get really spooky... McLuhan claimed that the medium itself changes and impacts society, controlling "the scale and form of human association and action". Cinema for instance, is a medium that changes the concepts of speed and time. From Wikipedia: I think what's happening, is that mediums are acting as a mirror and feedback loop. The medium of TV for instance influenced the message, the content and both together influenced society, which in turn was reflected back in the medium and the content, creating a feedback loop which has resulted in our modern times being as they are... I.e. pretty fucked up. I have realised that today's social media and the internet have created an environment in the world, by its mere presence. Just like those first few lightbulbs and the first spark of electricity. And this environment poses a severely underestimated danger. And at this point it is worth mentioning a book from the early 1990's about show-business... It's called Amused To Death, by Neil Postman. Prophetic doesn't even begin to describe it. "TV has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining spoonfuls of material" it claims, to the detriment rational public discourse. This guy was a lone voice at a time nobody could see the wood for the trees. He warns that there are real and present dangers from the age of show-biz and pop-culture, that all normal people ignore because it's "just entertainment". Now fast forward to 2019. What do we have... We have a culture that is utterly destroying itself. The rational opinions, intellect, long-form content, long periods of single-minded focus, are dead. They are dying in each and every one of us, not just in society at large. We're transitioning to a global digital medium that surpasses TV in influence by far. That's social media. Even the internet in terms of websites like this could be a thing of the past in just 5 years, reduced to just a Facebook group with content measured in sentences or single phrases, and discourse measured in who can shout me down the loudest. I'd love to know what Postman would think of this if he wrote Amused to Death today, as it makes TV make positively tame, as a force for change in society. Just like that supernatural, dangerous planet in Solaris, we're being irradiated. The digital world is a dangerous form of inhumane radiation, like acid rain to an old building. Our culture is changing. Our kids are carrying knives. Our politicians are tweeting. Instability is increasing. And the music... FUCK. The music is getting REALLY SHITTY.

I suggest A.I will solve the labour problems!

Until it's a real thing, it's just marketing and speculation. Thread closed.

No reason to start a new thread.