Andrew Reid

I think what this topic is telling me, is that the house of forum is due a spring clean. Damphousse was nearly banned in 2014 for his complete disregard for any form of respect for mods including myself as the site owner, and I let him stay... 4 years later, I think I'm out of any more tolerance. Maybe it is time to invite some new blood to post on the forum and find out who is the driftwood and isn't contributing.

How about collective responsibility?

12 tweets over 3 years? It's easy to lose talent if you're a politically correct corporation anyway. Corporations and politicians set such unrealistically perfect moral standards for behaviour, that Clinton can be brought down by emails. Trump on the other hand has set no such high bar for behaviour so can get away with anything. Disney can't tolerate the slightest thing from their employees, at any level. John Lasseter's gone too. For hugging!

Oh and you know this for sure... Ricky Gervais on stage, he's playing an extreme version of himself - a prick - and Gunn was doing the same here - a creepy perv - it's an act. It's not real.

See I told you it is dangerous to defend someone in the current climate. You're confusing my defence of a film director with defending paedophilia.... It's a carbon copy example of what I said earlier about our current odd climate of behaviour. And you're also confusing the target of the joke. The target of the provocative jokes were not abused children... but a monstrous comedic version of himself... which has no link to reality. It's pure fiction. A character. On a very trivial, casual medium (Twitter). As for "In a society where everyone has rights the best course of action is to offend as few people as possible." That is right out of a dystopian novel.

Is it fuck as like! You can have a complex multi-faceted opinion on something, pros and cons... and end up having more cons than pros, therefore you don't endorse. Ever been on a jury?! That would explain a lot. ?!??!

So fire comedians for making bad jokes... Who cares?! It's only freedom of expression at stake. If that is the kind of world we live in now, so be it.

Damphousse you prove my point. Nobody is beatifying Trump. I agree 100%. There is no middle ground. The internet has shaped public discourse into binary positions, like 1s and 0s. People are are getting very confused to be quite honest....for example Damphousse above is conflating my opinion and endorsement. Opinions do not equal endorsements. We're going through an era of western society which is not exactly our finest, and tribalism is taking over amidst all the kerfuffle. One is profiled for one's opinions constantly. For example I might be a liberal, Trump hating centre-ground voting British person, but if you state just one fact that people might misinterpret endorsing him, you're painted into a corner. Same with jokes. Make a bad taste one and it can be used against you in your career. Today, people misinterpret everything as personal... it always has to be personal! Opinions! Hang on, one could just be stating a fact.... But people will link that in their head to you endorsing the subject. And to hell with context. An example: Hilary Clinton ran a poor campaign, that's a fact. She lost, that's a fact. It could be interpreted as me being pro-Trump or as a personal opinion.... But she did. She was simply a poor campaigner. Unlike Bernie Sanders. The US is tearing itself apart over Trump and political ideologies. Corporate group-think has a lot to answer for too... Disney can't let themselves be associated in a binary argument with their values at stake vs some shitty joke on Twitter. Of course it's more complex than that... context (stream of thought and his tweets leading up to the jokes), meant as humour, not real, cyberspace, loose talk, banter - the public simply does not take this into account (it's small print and not in the news articles) so Disney had no choice but to fire him. That is truly scary groupthink. Here's a personal opinion of mine... this isn't a proven fact, but I honestly think our binary society is being noticed by our enemies. It is being weaponised by the Russians. If we don't sort ourselves out soon and come to our senses, they will rip right through us. They understand propaganda very well and are pitting us against each other. Liberal vs Conservative. Young vs Old. Canon vs Nikon. Windows vs Mac. They are exploiting the online landscape with bots, fake news and fake users, to cause toxic discourse. Some of them are on this very forum. It's happening everywhere, not just in the US. I haven't heard people talk about much else than Brexit in my home country for 2 years running... That is scary, and to be honest pretty weird. Most people aren't political, but today we are reading politics into our every move and every thought.

You have to persevere and look past the AI and JPEGs. Seems I gotta keep saying it... shoot 40MP raw and not the 10MP JPEGs, but I would think that would be obvious, especially when it's the main selling point of the phone, it happens in built in camera app, no third party app required, and it's fast to save a shot, less than 1 second in fact, which is amazing considering the resolution. Here is the iPhone X vs P20 Pro RAW. Click for full size... iPhone X P20 Pro DNG Until now phones have seen little benefit to their raw modes, with perhaps Samsung being best of the raw bunch. iPhone X and Google Pixel XL actually take a step backwards in raw, especially in low light. As for video, yes iPhone X is much better. 200% blow up of 100% crops... P20 Pro iPhone X

You shoot raw. No over processing, because raw isn't processed. The JPEGs are fine for social media use... But overcooked.

40MP RAW Quad Bayer is the future... It has dynamic range like I've never seen from a small sensor. Completely and utterly destroys iPhone X camera, which I had been very satisfied with. Proof coming soon

Superb director. But apparently people die "due to jokes" now https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44912175 It's pretty dangerous to defend Gunn though. given the current climate. Now I'm starting to realise why the buffoon wreaker Trump won the election. People are genuinely sick of the hysterical PC climate and the impact it has on real lives, yours and ours careers, and our art /freedom of expression.

It should be no problem on that powerful system (GTX 1060) to playback 4K H.265, as long as the OS and Premiere are both updated to the latest 2018 builds. Also make sure the graphics drivers are up to date. DaVinci Resolve is also worth a look, it's free from here: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

I am excited about this one, could be very popular with us if they get video right. However I am not sure why the rumour states 25MP and 45MP, when current tech from their supplier Sony is 24MP and 46MP. Seems like an odd move to use different sensors with 1MP difference.

You want to audition as a mod or something? At least get it right. The Atlas lens is a completely different thing https://learn.sharegrid.com/sharegrid-lens-test-atlas-lens-co-orion-series-anamorphic

The South Korean film industry is behind a push into anamorphic lenses. Read the full article

Samsung has joined forces with Fujifilm to develop sensor technology and says it will apply the new innovation to a large sensor. Could the NX1 finally get a successor? Read the full article

The Leica T touch screen interface is a breath of fresh air. You instantly see the current settings and tap to change any of them, without tapping a d-pad endlessly through a long list. There's also still a latency to the Sony UI that is completely unacceptable in 2018. As if it is running on a slow processor, or with a lot of background tasks. The bottom line is, Sony should have fired their UX team a long time ago. The HFR mode (esp. on the RX100 M6) is another example of why they should all be fired. The standby mode is unnecessary, first of all, if you are triggering the shot the normal way start/stop on the record button. Also it's not clear enough when you are in standby mode, yet there is text all over the screen and any half brush of a control brings up a prompt telling you to exit standby mode... so you press the key to exit but that just dismisses the prompt... So you think you've existed and start adjusting the zoom, exposure or whatever, and it just comes up with the shitty prompt again, like an endless loop of frustration. That would be a sackable offence at any of the other major companies in their user interface teams. If you look back to the Sony A900 the menus were fine. Simple, logically laid out and clean looking. Maybe they should not have replaced all those Minolta engineers who understood photography, with people from the thermostat division.

The most stupid thing I've read on here ever. They don't cater for mid or high end either when talking about consumer and prosumer market. They don't cater for high-end pros very well, that is Alexa and RED territory. In the stills market it is like this... Low end = M10 Mid range = M50, GX9 High-end consumer = G9, NX1, A7 III High-end prosumer = A7R III, 5D Mk IV, A7S II, GH5S High-end pro = Alexa So when you are referring to low-end, you really mean $300. And here, Canon does cater... for 1080p. Move up to $600 and you have the M50. That I like for c-mount S16mm shooting due to the crop factor, colour and peaking. It is not an all-round competitor to anything else and does not outright replace any other camera I use. Moreover Canon has a gaping hole between $600 and $6000. More specifically, that involves the 5D IV haemorrhaging video users to Sony and Panasonic and no answer to the GH5 or a high-end mirrorless camera yet. I've been saying "yet" for so long, I'm blue in the face. So don't defend them. Period.

Yes, hypothetical ones. 5 years late.

Some of the "sound pros with 20+ years experience" could have at least helped with the beta version and offered their feedback in private rather than sniping baseless comments on the forum thread to discourage potential buyers. That would have been the polite thing to do. I am with those beta testers who tried it, and liked it. The rest of you, if you haven't tried it, your opinions are all totally invalid.

So finally after 5 years, the market leader will catch up with the company that quit the camera market.

Not this stupid binary argument. ZERO... Only content matters, lighting and talent ONE... I must shoot 4K, RAW, RED, 240fps. The guys in the ZERO camp would be fucked if the script called for slow-mo. The guys in the ONE camp do need to use more talent sometimes. And the ZERO camp needs to realise that anamorphic lenses sometimes do their oh-so-wonderful scripts and lighting much more justice than spherical. Always, you need both the talent and the specs, one bit without the other is pointless.

Well just as you can tune an image, you can tune audio. If you are a professional audio engineer you are not the target audience for this. It's for filmmakers who want to get on with the shoot and edit, not learn how to use a compressor, EQ, etc. That isn't to say Pro Audio is basic. It has a science behind it. I worked with an audio engineer to create this... He did the entire audio engineering side. I just guided the idea and overall concept to completion. It comes with a guide that has a description of when to use which preset. There seems to be a misunderstanding in this thread with some people who haven't used it, haven't even read the page on the blog, or watched the tutorial or listened through headphones. No effort in = no results out. But they still have an opinion on results. Interesting! Erm. I did. But you don't need to combine presets like that anyway. You have Primers, which clean up audio. Colours which are like LUTs but for audio. And Bricks which can stack multiple on top of one another. Street scene noise reduction is actually a named preset, the work already done for you, finely tuned... so you don't need to add noise reduction + xxx + xxx.

Have either of you used it?