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Guess I missed the sarcasm? It was just a joke?

No he won't. Sheeesh. Welp, I stand corrected, yet again. I'm pretty good at falsely thinking I've got a handle on stuff only to be proven otherwise by the informational super highway. Curse you technological marvel that's paving the road to humanity's latest ruin!

Well help me out here a little bit then. Are we somehow entitled to not having to hear about someone else's opinion? Am I misreading the implication? People form opinions by thinking with their free mind, so what are you getting at? Someone holds a contrarian view to someone else doesn't cancel opinions. It's a disagreement in a market full of ideas and opinions. Say what you want and deal with the repercussions. As it should be. You don't often get to fling unfettered rhetoric on the internet without some push back from people with different ideas on things. And this article isn't anywhere near any sort of rhetorical bomb anyway.

Like Andrew mentioned, the director wanted to invert gender conventions. Since it's a POV of the characters that are flipped from the societal norm we start to see how the norm is kind of perverted to begin with. That the movie is pure trash, has horrible narrative flaws, AND sucks hard in most areas of movie making is actually weirdly highlighting this inversion. That's typical "Hot Take BS," but it's a big super hero movie so we talk about it. Also, we're used to females and minorities begin treated as non-serious silly characters all the time. The fact that WW84's antagonist is a campy-white-guy-emotional-train-wreck-doofus is one of the few things I actually liked about the movie. Is it progress that woke-shit can be be disposable storytelling nonsense just like all other cultural pop nonsense? Aside from that, I found the move horrible. My wife liked it. She;s more tolerant of superficial trope'y silliness. And, tbf, shit movies made by guys and gals get ignored all the time. We're still in the novel stages of big-event pop culture flicks being more accepting about gender, so maybe it just seems like WW84 is somehow more important than it is. No he won't. Sheeesh. He might get challenged for his opinion, yes. Unless Andrew feels like he's somehow entitled to an assailable opinion, enduring online slings and arrows shouldn't really be a problem. Not all people are fragile and afraid of debate from strangers. I don't know Andrew personally, but from all I've read from him over the past 8 years I don't think being afraid of debate is part of his nature.

Is this a variation on post hoc ergo propter hoc?

FWIW, he is the boss. His company is making that film.

Therein lies your answer. Mitigate the threat seriously (which we do not do in the USA) and continue on as much as possible. A new disease is going to wreak havoc. Decent leadership tries to help minimize the trauma of it. Bad leadership makes it worse. Brasil vs. New Zealnd for example. USA vs. Japan.

Ya new to the internet? 😉

Most of my work is documentaries, and the ability to store hundreds of hours of source/proxy footage on CHEAP slow portable hard drives --and edit with footage off those slow drives is a wonderful reality of proxies editing. The few times I've wished I could jump right into it without any transcoding are few and far between. However, when it happened I was certainly desperate for a fast machine, no question. I'd also have to admit that having powerful PC's are just kind of fun. Still, the fact that I can effectively and productively edit on very modest gear is pretty amazing to me...a guy that used to edit on rigs costing over a half a million dollars.

For someone that says he doesn't want to build, sure seems like you jumped through a lot of hoops to get that PC! Not that I'm not impressed, and you got a HP supported Enterprise System, just seems like a chore. I'm transitioning off of PC editing and will just pay the "Apple Tax" for their computers. Yeah, it's more expensive, but oh well. The biggest concern with a new Apple is getting the thing out of the box. OTOH, I might Hackintosh my old PC just for grins...but I'm not going to rely on that sort of futzing around to be my main editing rig. (which, honestly, my editing is not THAT demanding anyway. I'm a make-everything-proxies-kind-of-guy, so powerful editing rigs aren't a necessity)

I'm not worried. The tools'll always be there. It's simply the beginning of the end of an era. I grew up with camera-bodies-and-lenses...as did those experiencing 150 years of camera technology before me. As that model steps back from the forefront of the market it's just a bit unfortunate as it's something that's not going to be as important as it used to be. I imagine computational photography will exist within 10 years that allow you capture hi-res images from a FF equivalent of 12 to 150 mm FOV, maximum DOF, and then you can literally choose how you want that to look in post. 75mm with a shallow DOF of that emulates f1.2? No problem. Dial it up in your phone, you're good to go. You want anamorphic bokeh? Be sure to tick that box while you're at it. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a 360 camera and you literally can crop out whatever image you want during the time the camera was capturing. You don't even have to compose framing on location, just have the camera in the space you deem appropriate then make the more nuanced choices later...all on a 1" sensor capturing 384MP per frame, or something crazy like that.

From a POV of admitted ignorance I feel this to be true. I'd be curious what your website visitor analytics say as a sort of weather vane to the industry --and if it confirms such opinion.

This jibes with my uneducated opinion of the psychology of nationalistic folks. I personally believe they actively seek out ideological reassurance more so than others. Derived from insecurity? These are my anecdotal observations, anyway. I think it's why they'll flock to rallies and enjoy them while other citizens are incredulous, if not appalled, by that behavior. Ironic to me that those that claim to be the most stridently individualistic often seem not to be at all.

We're all monkeys, but we used to be monkeys tempered by everyone living lives wherein a majority of time was spent in social interaction. Real, face-to-face social interaction. I'm all for a marketplace of ideas, but when it's anonymous poop flinging, the normal governor of behavior is off. That's bad news. Add to the fact that, as a form of commerce, media companies are very sophisticate delivering curated bags of poop to people....? In very broad strokes, this is what happens when you decide to manipulate biology for profit.

Y'all need to watch some Journey videos if you find this amusing.

I don't understand the sarcasm. This was just about every single music video in the early 1980's and it's glorious. Martha Quinn probably introduced this video after an on-set interview with Sue Ross.

It really hasn't changed since the 80's. And 80's cameras were like 70's cameras. To be fair, the Ikagami tube camera I learned on had less buttons because it was a simpler machine, but the layout and button ergonomics were similar.

I'm an owner of an EM10III and 3 lenses, but typically only use one (manual prime) ...and I make films all the time, so my perspective is that almost all this gear on the market pretty much works great if you know what you want and how to get it.

Probably safe to say that with 3K you'll be fine with whatever kit you end up with. If you can't get impressive images with that level of camera, it's not the camera, y'know? Personally, I'd worry less about the specs in that segment of the market and check out ergonomics and other such "intangibles" as you handle display models.

When you have the luxury of time to set up your shots. Run and gun doc filming needs proper exposures at a moments notice, usually through various light levels WHILE FILMING. I hate the variable ND affects the IQ, but I use them anyway because they're a valuable tool.

Eventually ended up being a dedicated virtual keyboard instrument for our bubble-gum-punk-rock band. --Dial up a keyboard emulator and go to town. Moog, Jupiter, Hammond, Harpsicord, String Ensembles, etc. We used that thing until 2012. Not a bad life cycle for a laptop.

I had that laptop too. Rugged little bugger...well, at least mine held together okay. Went around the world with me a few times. Miss it. Was really a good balance of size/performance.

Not sure if it's possible, but I still prefer the original scheme. Less contrast is more comfortable for me (older guy) to read. Anyway to offer that as a theme preference selection?

I was wondering what that film crew was doing in my hometown last month...He was here doing "Last Days in the Desert" a few years ago so I bet he used that knowledge of location to bang out this PR piece. Man, I really need to befriend someone at park services to find out what the heck is happening. We have crews coming through all the time. These folks literally stay across the street from me when they're in town and I never seem to find out about it 'til they're gone.

10 years just about EVERYBODY on the planet that can afford a phone will have the same motion picture IQ power we currently have. Best to question "what exactly do I bring to the table when offering video production services?" If your answer is "the camera" you need to start getting really paranoid. Most clients are not going to fret about DXO scores. If that's where your attention lies (and there's nothing really wrong with that) I hope you're aspiring to a much higher echelon of production than I am! I'm pretty close to retirement so my day in the sun with all this stuff is coming to an end. Looks like I'll be riding the imaging technical wave as it crashes onto the beach.