Offtopic http://personal-view.com/talks/categories/offtopic/p12/feed.rss Fri, 24 May 24 23:30:19 +0000 Offtopic en-CA Year In Micro Four Thirds http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14397/year-in-micro-four-thirds Fri, 08 Jan 2016 03:06:13 +0000 MikeLinn 14397@/talks/discussions

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The Properties of Camera Lenses http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14379/the-properties-of-camera-lenses- Tue, 05 Jan 2016 08:58:34 +0000 MikeLinn 14379@/talks/discussions

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Mix bag du CINÉMA http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/12058/mix-bag-du-cinema Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:23:04 +0000 maxr 12058@/talks/discussions Hi there PVs, master @Vitalic
Thought of a dumpy and smokey room for sharing essays, articles, quotes, stills, personal notes, anecdotes, semi-conscient reflexions and all else relating the filmaking craft/art =)
 

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BLOW UP super duper channel, even if you don't speak french =)

 

 
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Just enough bullshit http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/7983/just-enough-bullshit Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:04:58 +0000 maxr 7983@/talks/discussions

George Carlin it fairly well known, nevertheless this video is just truthfully humorous and thus worth sharing :D

gashô

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The Making of ArcaBoard http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14278/the-making-of-arcaboard- Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:22:36 +0000 MikeLinn 14278@/talks/discussions

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This can happen to your camera bag also http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14272/this-can-happen-to-your-camera-bag-also Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:59:58 +0000 MikeLinn 14272@/talks/discussions

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Christmas at Boston Dynamics http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14267/christmas-at-boston-dynamics Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:07:23 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 14267@/talks/discussions

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Chinese Game called Sesame Credit promotes good citizen behaviour http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14265/chinese-game-called-sesame-credit-promotes-good-citizen-behaviour Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:07:51 +0000 andyharris 14265@/talks/discussions Dear Forum

This is not my bag at all, but I know that many of you like to debate the issues that this sort of thing raises:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-has-made-obedience-to-the-state-a-game-a6783841.html

Holiday Wishes and stuff

Andy

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Drone Blender http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14257/drone-blender- Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:43:32 +0000 MikeLinn 14257@/talks/discussions

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The Best and Worst Gear of 2015 http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14253/the-best-and-worst-gear-of-2015- Sun, 20 Dec 2015 07:13:58 +0000 MikeLinn 14253@/talks/discussions

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The Cog http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14245/the-cog Fri, 18 Dec 2015 16:39:11 +0000 MikeLinn 14245@/talks/discussions

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Darth Vader as client http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14241/darth-vader-as-client- Fri, 18 Dec 2015 03:47:36 +0000 MikeLinn 14241@/talks/discussions

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Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14228/planned-obsolescence-or-built-in-obsolescence Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:25:43 +0000 apefos 14228@/talks/discussions Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete, that is, unfashionable or no longer functional after a certain period of time. The rationale behind the strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle")

Buy new gear only if you will use it a lot, because within short time you will want to buy a newer gear... GH1, GH2, GH3, GH4... G6, G7...

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The Filmomat - Home Film Processing System Machine http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14224/the-filmomat-home-film-processing-system-machine Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:10:30 +0000 AlbertZ 14224@/talks/discussions "With a microcontroller, an OLED display, and a rotary encoder, different developing processes can be programmed in, the chemicals heated, developer agitated, and film processed. "

A nice invention for lovers of analog photography. It is only a prototype for now.

http://hackaday.com/2015/12/08/the-filmomat-home-film-processing-system/

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Camera Evolution Explained In Just 11 Portraits http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14213/camera-evolution-explained-in-just-11-portraits Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:29:18 +0000 MikeLinn 14213@/talks/discussions

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Doing work pro bono http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14198/doing-work-pro-bono Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:12:06 +0000 Gardner 14198@/talks/discussions There's a local restaurant that I'm a fan of and I noticed that they had no commercial for their business. How should I go about asking the owner if I could film a promotional video for their company at no cost without them thinking that I'm full of sh!%t. Every once in a while I like to take free work but this will be my first for an actual company.

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Kickstarter hides failed projects http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3358/kickstarter-hides-failed-projects Sat, 26 May 2012 07:53:15 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 3358@/talks/discussions When I first noticed that Kickstarter’s web interface wasn’t showing me any failures, I wanted to be sure. To confirm my suspicions, I wrote a scraper (using the excellent Scrapy framework) designed to browse through Kickstarter’s Discover pages, extracting project details from every single campaign page it could find.

The result: 27,399 projects. Every single project my scraper could find was either successful or in progress.

This means that if you’re a human being (instead of a scraper) you could browse Kickstarter’s Discovery section for days, weeks, or months. You could look at more than 27,000 projects. And you’d never come across a failure.

Links to failed Kickstarter projects still work. For example, I can still link to Instaprint, a project that failed to meet its funding goal on April 29. Or, if you know the name of a failed project, you can search for it using Kickstarter’s search engine.

But here’s the thing: search for failed project on Google, or Bing, or DuckDuckGo, and the Kickstarter project page is nowhere in the results.

Why?

In the header section of every single failed Kickstarter project I could find, I found this robots meta tag:

This tag, which shows up on failed Kickstarter projects, but not on successful or in progress projects, tells search engines to ignore the page.

Kickstarter doesn’t pull failures off their site. They just make it difficult to find them through third-party search engines.

Via: http://misener.org/archives/1354

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Paris Attacks: EARLY HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14064/-paris-attacks-early-history-of-the-third-world-war Fri, 13 Nov 2015 18:05:32 +0000 endotoxic 14064@/talks/discussions With the almos 7 terrorist attack carried out in France some hours ago, the Third World War begins.

This attack allegedly by Islamic terrorists, is the perfect excuse to go to full NATO Islamic war. France and other Europeans now have a reason to enter, in fact FORCED TO ENTER by usa. These attacks have been carried out due to the incursion of Putin's war in Syria. It has ousted the Islamic factions supported by NATO at 60% in the last three weeks. This France attacks has been made from Usa in coordination with france. Thus indicating that the attacks are a desperation move, the US is losing the opportunity to take control of a second Islamic state, losing, oil, assets, money machine war, and people, this, because Iraq his main asset over middle east has give his back to NATO only a week ago. They were the main "ally" of that side of the Middle East, their biger investment over the las 15 years.

The geopolitical situation has just changed completely.

Now it's official, BRICS thus Russia, knows that an attack by European Union starts, just when Germany wanted to start talks with Russia and Syria to seek not to interfere in this situation, which generated some US blocks to this country. USA has inflicted its final damage. This will make the dollar colapse, due to lack of support from the rest of the world, BRICS, will be an option, so this is a grate excuse to make transitional money a must, emergin the amero as new currency. trumping the dollar, making it almos value of 0 This is their opportunity to demolish its debt, and gain control geopolitically and economically. Make new money, force those who cannot fight to change currency by bringing its exchange rate to almost 0, gaining control over corporations small buisnes and property in general.

Why? because the can,

Now officially NATO have a reason to start war, the United States will be the first to push over, and send troops to where those "terrorist" A.K.A USA contractor are:

Syria.

GOOD LUCK WORLD.

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Testing on macpro 2013 request. http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14160/testing-on-macpro-2013-request. Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:08:58 +0000 alcomposer 14160@/talks/discussions Hey guys,

I know a developer that is working on software- I would like to know if anyone has a macpro 2013 (trashcan). You would simply need to PM me and I can send you a drop-box link.

Testing would simply be running 5 apps and seeing if anything crashes.

Would be very very helpful! :-)

Cheers Al

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The Science of Camera Sensors http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14147/the-science-of-camera-sensors Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:02:31 +0000 MikeLinn 14147@/talks/discussions

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Snow Camera Stabilizer http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14152/snow-camera-stabilizer Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:23:21 +0000 MikeLinn 14152@/talks/discussions

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/snow-camera-stabilizer-3-axis-mechanical-gimbal#/

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Remember to support us http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/13782/remember-to-support-us Tue, 22 Sep 2015 01:41:40 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 13782@/talks/discussions This is super important thing.

  • personal-view works on dedicated server and it is not cheap
  • Remember that we do not have ads, "sponsors" or anything like such crap injecting stuff.
  • Remember what each month we pay for hosting and it this sum is increasing, and additional daily backup located outside of hoster network (for safety).
  • Remember what we don't have big team to support site. No admins, paid moderators, etc. So, huge time is invested in keeping this community alive.
  • Remember that it is always best to support regularly, even very small amount if you are in economic trouble.
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4K 8bit 4:2:0 on the Panasonic GH4 converts to 1080p 10bit 4:4:4 http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/13297/4k-8bit-420-on-the-panasonic-gh4-converts-to-1080p-10bit-444 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 03:19:31 +0000 Alexauwa 13297@/talks/discussions There is an quite old but interesting article by EOSHD about that: http://www.eoshd.com/2014/02/discovery-4k-8bit-420-panasonic-gh4-converts-1080p-10bit-444/

Did anyone try that? Do color information really improve?

I am specially interested in the conversion to achieve the 4.4.4. as mentioned here: "Downscaling and transcoding to ProRes or CineForm at 1080p can convert the RGB 4K data from the GH4’s 4K 100Mbit/s codec to the higher bit depth of 10bit and colour sampling of 4:4:4."

There are various product types such as GoPro Studio (Premium, Professional, etc.) available. Which would I need and how would the workflow be with Premiere Pro CC 2015?

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A Genuine Mad Scientist http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14092/a-genuine-mad-scientist Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:03:50 +0000 Ralph_B 14092@/talks/discussions

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Sophisticated Microsoft motion tracking software smooths Hyperlapse Videos http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/11026/sophisticated-microsoft-motion-tracking-software-smooths-hyperlapse-videos Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:18:42 +0000 Bernie 11026@/talks/discussions http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/

This is on a number of new sites but i don't think its been posted here. Interesting idea, thoughts?

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100 Mbps kinda low for 4k http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14062/100-mbps-kinda-low-for-4k Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:17:17 +0000 nickr 14062@/talks/discussions I may be wrong but isn't the mp4 bit rate of 100 Mbps that's used on GH4 , G7 etc. for 4K recording, equal to about 25 Mbps in HD. 4K has 4 times the picture information to encode. It would have been nice if they pushed it up to at least 150Mpbs

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Los Angeles (Under 6th street bridge/LA river) filming location question http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/13513/los-angeles-under-6th-street-bridgela-river-filming-location-question Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:21:02 +0000 sammy 13513@/talks/discussions I got an artist/singer inquire about filming a music video mostly based around under the 6th street bridge in LA ( like the movie Grease) .it will consist of him singing , and a mini car race.. Has anyone here ever filmed at that location, and how hard will it be to get approval , also any idea of cost ? Never really shot near downtown area , most of the locations I shot before are more like privet locations or studio environment. Thanks for any input.

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Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14018/death-rates-rising-for-middle-aged-white-americans Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:50:56 +0000 karl 14018@/talks/discussions The demographic development reported on in this article sure doesn't look good:

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Shutter sounds compared http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14013/shutter-sounds-compared Sun, 01 Nov 2015 13:44:43 +0000 MikeLinn 14013@/talks/discussions

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Canon vs nikon mount 2015 update http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/14002/canon-vs-nikon-mount-2015-update Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:57:23 +0000 alcomposer 14002@/talks/discussions Just wanting to check into PV users preference to nikon vs canon mount for lenses. I have always been pro nikon mount for reasons of compatibility- but currently there seems like lots of canon folk are utilizing their lenses on lots of cameras.

Is canon mount the new standard? Thoughts appreciated! Personally I have just invested in the nikon mount to m43 of metabones so very happy with build quality and ruggedness- (tank metal grade), but still interesed in peoples thoughts! ;-)

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