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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
Well, in case you haven't noticed, I'm rekindling a certain flame. Whatever the end format, there will always be a need for film clips seemingly coming from another time: re-constituted wartime newsreel shot in Plus-X 35mm on my Eyemo, pse…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
@P4INKiller I used Tri-X 16mm 10 years ago (50 ASA B&W reversal) and it seemed I could do no wrong. Made for hi-res telecine. Your reminder has clinched it. I'm ordering some too.[BTW, are you using stills or cine? Not a Красногорск-3 16mm…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
@jleo Good attempt at input from a neuroscientist, though I'd rather learn more about how neurons work rather than his bumbling interpretation of what he's read about how a higher frame rate produces smoother motion.. >it removes a gr…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
@jleo Thanks for those links. Well-researched. As the *Chinese Curse* says, May you live in Interesting times. The Film/Digital side gets complex here - the Chinese agreement are only allows 3D (digital) US imports. Also , we mustn't confuse …

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
@Blackout as @bheath says, >This thread you started is really great! I echo bheath's sentiments exactly. It's the thread we had to have, shot out of a cannon with a blast of *stream-of-consciousness* because it was probably the only…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
*Chinese box office surpassed $2.1 billion in 2011 and could grow to $5 billion by 2015. Analysts have said that even allowing 10 more [American] films [into China]could mean half a billion dollars per year for major studios, so 14 premium-price…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
More from the interviews in IndieWire: "Half the world's screens are digital, and 65% in US are, increasing daily." "The studios are making larger productions, not getting quantity but larger cost productions. 100 films produ…

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tv news 16 mm in the 60's
@rockroadpix @Jspatz The CP16 did look like rubbish using Ektachrome 260 Reversal. >The Ektachrome proccessors were run at about 10% over spec temperature What's worse, it was often telecine'd so that each grain seemed to have its o…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
China is building 8 screens a day, 75 IMAX theaters this year alone Population of China, 1961–2008 Population: 1,339,724,852 (2010 census) (1st) [Wikipedia] WASHINGTON – The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) today released its an…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
Reuters : BEIJING Mon Jul 2, 2012 China's fast-growing services industry, which accounts for about 43 percent of output in the world's Number 2 economy, has so far weathered the global slowdown much better than the factory sector. ... …

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
@RRRR >excessive budgets are limited to very, very few In case you didn't get my point, it's the high-budget & sales-volume productions which will pretty much determine whether emulsion film continues to be produced. Chinese audie…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
@jrd > if you've been around long enough, you've been hearing the same argument -- moviemaking is a democracy now! -- for years. ROTFL! remember revolutionary CB radio replacing the telephone? Or how Port-a-Pak VHS/Betamax was going t…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
@RRRR Yes, digital acquisition is not the one-trick wonder we'd hoped for; it also comes with a few traps for the unwary. True, we can all learn to "shoot safe" using a RED. But few operators know how to shoot fast as well as push th…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
Film medium is on a rocky road and the factors end up being financial. The *perception* amongst insurers that the slight lag between a) reviewing and checking scene's video-split rushes and b) getting the developed neg safely back in storage a…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
Highest-grossing films of 2012 1 The Avengers -Arri RAW 2 The Hunger Games-35 mm (Kodak) (Fuji Eterna Vivid 250D 8546, Eterna Vivid 500T 8547) 3 Men in Black 3-35 mm (Kodak Vision3 500T 5219) 4 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted |[Anima…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
Beware of imitations A fake Rolex in a Delhi street only has to fool you just long enough for you to part with your money. Realistic-looking, plastic-veneered, wood grained chipboard furniture fooled most of us for some of the time in the 1970�…

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GH2 Hardware modifications - (not for the faint-hearted)
@svart Thanks for looking into it. It's a more comprehensive answer than I'd expected but still makes me want to try something on the bench. BTW, I just saw this GH2 top assembly for auction, (new). I can't see if there's anyth…

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Unmanageable complexity 2
@Vitaliy_Kiselev Makes for a refreshing read. Looking forward to more.

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Private security - "We have nothing to hide"
A useful site with tests you can perform on your own browser history: http://wtikay.com/docs/details.html

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GH2 Hardware modifications - (not for the faint-hearted)
@svart >the main IC you see in the pic is an NJM2747SCC, which is a generic quad opamp. The configuration is strange because they only use 2 of the 4 opamps in the package. If you look at the schematic on connector FP4201(right side), pin 1 is l…

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Microsoft
?? Sorry, Then you've lost me! >And I doubt that any of them come with solution that is able to make full system transparent backup. *Some operating systems such as Linux[1] and Mac OS X[2] have virtual drive functionality built-in (such a…

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Microsoft
@Vitaliy_Kiselev >LOL. You do not understand that you are talking. Ditto... Unless I don't understand what *you* are talking about. Do you somehow really think Linux servers do not do automated backups?

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Microsoft
>And I doubt that any of them come with solution that is able to make full system transparent backup. cron

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Confused by various Panasonic models - which camera to complement GH2 for hacked video?
@haribabis Sorry, some of us tend to forget that others (and other countries) have different purchasing powers. The story is, get a GF camera and live with the quality drop. Get some hints from @Rambo 's posts. [Edit: the dude seems to make an…

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Views from Talent & Tech - Chemical film is finally dead & the GH2 rates close to the big dogs!
@jleo >Film has emphysema but Film is dead sounds more dramatic Your comment shows remarkable restraint. I couldn't think of anything to say as diplomatically as you have. To proclaim, "*Film is Dead*" .. when film is still for…

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Manual Lenses and radioactivite?
As a journalist for most of my adult life, I try to balance stories and am judged by my peers according to my ability to do so. But from time to time I am surprised by a non-journalist who assumes I have allegiances one way or another. (They assume …

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Manual Lenses and radioactivite?
@soundgh2 *ad hominem* - yes, well picked. In my case it's *ad hominēs omnem*, meaning I tried to quote all opposing arguments. Frustrating as it seems, the online-style of debate looks ridiculous and chaotic but on Personal-View.com the oc…

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Manual Lenses and radioactivite?
Demonstration of the cumulative effect of radioactivité "Oh komm onn, Misteer Creosote, eet's juste a little, weffer-thin afteer dinner mint!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXH_12QWWg8

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Manual Lenses and radioactivite?
>You get more radiation from a transatlantic flight than sleeping with a Minolta strapped to your face >lens has such a tiny microroentgen dose that there's nothing to worry about. >6 hour a day usage (that's 6 hours a day with t…

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