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Andrew Reid

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  1. ​ I have to wonder, does all this moral posturing make you feel better? And what have you done to be so defensive about your ethics anyway? So it's ok for two stars to punch each other then? I am not condoning any bad behaviour, like I made clear in the blog. It's all wrong. Any kind of physical or verbal abuse is, no matter who does it or where. It's wrong. The problem here is that it should have been sorted out as the small spat it was, behind closed doors. Why get lawyers involved, investigations, pandering to the press and Twitter? To be so dramatic and political about it is bad management. The BBC ride roughshod over what the audience wants time and time again. It's a split lip. It's not manslaughter. It's not serial sexual assault. In over a decade the producer and Clarkson had a positive working relationship. I am sure they will put a token eco-friendly feminist in charge of restructuring a guy's motoring show and ruin it for everyone even more. I can only hope the current production team and presenters go to Sky. The BBC ruined F1 coverage and they will now ruin Top Gear. What do the key players have to say now the news has broken? Captain Slow - James May... "Well apparently they have shot him. I’ve only found this out by prising the information out of various BBC sources, nobody has actually told me officially until a few moments ago when they emailed. I don’t really have anything to say about it. It’s a tragedy. I’m sorry that what ought to have been a small incident sorted out easily has turned into something big... I have only known for the past few minutes and if you excuse me I have to write the eBay listing for my Ferrari." The producer with his swollen lip... "I respect Lord Hall’s detailed findings and I am grateful to the BBC for their thorough and swift investigation into this very regrettable incident, against a background of intense media interest and speculation.  I’ve worked on Top Gear for almost a decade, a programme I love.  Over that time Jeremy and I had a positive and successful working relationship, making some landmark projects together. He is a unique talent and I am well aware that many will be sorry his involvement in the show should end in this way."   This is also worth reading... "...it’s further evidence of [the BBC's] self-emasculation, its sheepish, apologetic jettisoning of anything that might rile right-thinking viewers or make Hampstead-dwelling licence fee-payers choke on their Ovaltine. With the elbowing aside of JC, we are witnessing not simply the sacking of an employee over a scuffle, but the willingness of a scandal-stung, crisis-ridden BBC to ditch anything that has the whiff of controversy and to bend its knee to the bland, larks-free worldview of the right-on." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11494207/The-dogmatic-liberal-elite-have-finally-kicked-out-Jeremy-Clarkson.-I-hope-theyre-happy.html
  2. ​You do realise don't you that this kind of thinking would exclude a lot of talent from the film and TV industries!!
  3. First of all, show me the law that requires your employer to sack you if you have a fight. It's a matter for the employer, not the law. Involuntary manslaughter is one thing. A very tragic death is one thing. None of it has anything to do with Clarkson having a stress and alcohol related emotional breakdown due to production issues. That's the end of that little curve ball Lammy. No more dragging this off topic like you did the last two.
  4. Statement from the BBC making it official http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2015/03/25/bbc-releases-statement-on-clarkson/ What a bunch of morally posturing white suited little shits.
  5. Does the wronged producer's rights come before that of his entire crew? Seems they do.
  6.   Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson is to be sacked, bringing to an end a 27 year career with the BBC and an overhaul of the show. A BBC source told The Guardian - "There can’t be one rule for talent and one rule for ordinary human beings". In 1999 the director David O. Russell head butted George Clooney on the set of Three Kings. Allegedly Clooney responded by choking O. Russell with his hands around his neck. That didn't seem to bother the Oscars, when O. Russell's film Silver Linings Playbook was nominated for 8 in 2012. Read the full article
  7. Completely fake. Not long to wait till the real deal now...
  8. Does downgrading your equipment to simpler, more basic models make you more creative? I went to find out. Read the full article
  9. Maybe they are all like Leonard!    
  10. I am finding video quality in 4K very similar to the NX1, almost identical. Problem is the crop, I find it very bothersome indeed! It's HUGE!
  11. I believe it. Canon are going fixed lens mirrorless, so they don't have to introduce a new video-optimised mirrorless lens line-up to cannibalise their EF sales.
  12. Yes 30 min limit and no 4K HDMI output to get around it. No mic socket either. I hope Samsung offers the same perks of firmware updates to the NX500 as we saw with the NX1... it needs it.
  13. ​It's "NX" mount. It does get some love from Ciecio7. His PL adapter for Samsung NX mount is superb. I use it with my Cookes on the NX1.
  14. If that new sensor does 14 stops with global shutter enabled I'd be very surprised.
  15. Also, best manual aperture control for Nikon G lenses / Sigma ART on E-Mount & Micro Four Thirds I've yet used. Very robust and smooth.
  16. No, EF and Nikon lenses are bayonet locking. With a positive lock, this works like a PL adapter for cinema lenses. A locking ring locks around the lens, securing it with absolutely no wiggle like you get with a bayonet. So rather than rotating to lock the lens, you hold the lens to the adapter and rotate the adapter's locking mechanism around it instead... just as you would do when mounting a PL lens to a RED EPIC.
  17. Above: Canon EF locking adapter for Sony E-Mount In my opinion these are some of the best adapters currently on the market for Canon & Nikon glass. They take a normal Canon or Nikon lens and turn it into a PL mount (positive locking) with no play between the mount and lens. Most of the adapters are currently in stock on eBay for your A7S / GH4: Canon EF locking adapter for Sony E-Mount Nikon locking adapter for Sony E-Mount Canon EF locking adapter for Micro Four Thirds Nikon locking adapter for Micro Four Thirds (Not currently in stock) And also the versions for Sony FZ mount (F55, etc.) and AJA Cion: Canon - FZ Nikon - FZ Canon - CION Nikon - CION Read the full article
  18. Although we're still waiting for that 4K consumer DSLR from Canon, the company has announced an investment into Spartan Bioscience, a firm developing rapid DNA testing apparatus for the masses to have their DNA analysed for potential health issues. Read the full article
  19. You are right, just look at the vitriol in damphouse's post above for a perfect example. ​I can't think of anything interesting to watch on the BBC at the moment at all. They really have caved into a very risk-averse creative culture.
  20. The Olympus E-M5 Mark II can shoot pin sharp handheld shots at a shutter speed of 1/2 (half a second) at 50mm (equiv.) Here I took the camera down the backstreets of Manchester and shot it. Read the full article
  21. My point reinforced again by Lammy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers Is it really that hard to stay on the topic the article raises?
  22. ​God there are some stupid people out there. It just proves everything I'm saying is spot on. That people get confused and take offence like in a massive game of Chinese whispers. Oh is that phrase racist as well? I am sure someone will complain about that next, because they don't understand it's use or even their own language properly. In a recent Saturday Night Live show that Jerry Seinfeld hosted he took a joke packed Q&A from the audience amongst them Spielberg, Ed Norton, Larry David and other stars. One of them asked why there were no black people on Seinfeld and Jerry replied joking "It is true that we did not do everything we could to cure society's ills!" We all know why Seinfeld was great, thank you VRVC you genius, and it has nothing to do with the lack of black cast members on the show, and everything to do with everything else.
  23. Hmm. Well it's both actually. I'm all in favour of alternative fuels and cars, as long as they give you the buzz the old ones did and more.
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