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Unmanageable complexity 4, back to margins
@VK maybe i ll take english course one day because you misunderstood my post! :) I'm not saying that propaganda doesn t exist (even more on international relation!) I point to a (short) study that explain HOW and WHY propaganda work. Not secre…

Comment by astraban July 2012 permalink
Unmanageable complexity 4, back to margins
@brianluce "Anyone have some studies and evidence to link to?" Many of theses claims are made without any proof or pointing out a fantasy hidden agenda. Guys speaking of "mass media" like it's one entity. A superficial stud…

Comment by astraban July 2012 permalink
Unmanageable complexity
@Vitaliy_Kiselev >"You can fight it by improving managment, improve help factors or reducing complexity." Don't know for the "elite" agenda, but here in particular when you have to reduce complexity, you're facing …

Comment by astraban July 2012 permalink
The Making of an Expert
Well that's the point of the study : take the best example of a "child prodigy" in the history and try to describe the sociological element (education, social environment, etc) who contribute in the making of that strange thing that …

Comment by astraban June 2012 permalink
The Making of an Expert
A very good illustration (the best maybe?) of what VK said can be found in the wonderfull work of Norbert Elias (a great historian/sociologist) : Mozart: Portrait of a Genius.

Comment by astraban June 2012 permalink
25mm f/0.95 Voigtländer Nokton
not a good deal at all : 250-300€ more than the price you can find in France. PS : Voigtlander is owned by Cosina : this lens is made in Japan.

Comment by astraban April 2012 permalink
Corporate interviews
Just a small, really tiny tip useful in sociological interview : never ask "why" in your question (like "Why did you start doing this?") and always (!) prefer "how". Often when you ask "why" the answer will be…

Comment by astraban April 2012 permalink
GH2 Stalin samples topic
Beauty of the cam is you can shoot everywhere, anytime (since driftwood's patches my poor hard drives have to disagree though) http://vimeo.com/37592830 Despite my upload limit (500Mo) the downloadable file is obviously way better than the fuck…

Comment by astraban March 2012 permalink
Video-Friendly Lenses for Lumix DSLRs
@willianaleman Not all the lenses listed have autofocus in the first place. For those that have it working on the GH2, it's because there is adapters with electric contacts (4/3 to m4/3) from panasonic & olympus - even cheap chinese one, cf…

Comment by astraban February 2012 permalink
14-140 lens issue
definitly not normal.

Comment by astraban February 2012 permalink
16 different lenses - same target. Which look do you prefer?
Nice. Another vid (not mine) showing various lens on same cute subject http://vimeo.com/31874383

Comment by astraban January 2012 permalink
Official Nikon Hacks, D7000, D7100, D3100, D3200, D5100, V1, V2, J1, D4, D800 and Nikon Tool
@mikus : check your pm for the explanation of an hack process, in french.

Comment by astraban January 2012 permalink
Edelkrone Pocket Rig
Videos won't tell you much about any kind of rig (even more slow mo vids...), but more about the skills of the user... I've seen better vids handheld than ones done with $$$$ rigs*. You need to find your style of shooting, the gears you wi…

Comment by astraban January 2012 permalink
Must watch : The Wire (HBO series)
For thoses who actually liked one of the best aspect of this show : the somewhat realistic (well, it's still a TV Show, even if it's the best, agree w/ @Ian_T ;-) ) documenting on the every day life of drug dealers, I can't praise you…

Comment by astraban January 2012 permalink
Must watch : The Wire (HBO series)
One of the best serie ever. "Boss" and "Breaking Bad" are close =)

Comment by astraban January 2012 permalink
Navitar CCTV lenses
There is a thread about this lens (called Navitron, not Navitar, though...) on a french lumix forum w/ lot of pics and review (if you speak french :) ) http://www.forumlumix.com/t57870-le-fil-des-lumineux-navitron-montc-dont-le-75mm-14

Comment by astraban December 2011 permalink
"Boss" TV Series Cinematography
Yep, a good serie (in itself) with a very good cinematography : not only the shallow dof, but also the good use of macro shots : worth a watc... hum (VK®) !... deserve a viewing. ;-)

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
MJPEG FPS setting for Timelapse on GH2
Well... Problem solved. :-)

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
MJPEG FPS setting for Timelapse on GH2
I'm not sure there is any compression : the tool just discard some frames (depending on the chosen interval) and blend the remaining one if you chose to (shutter setting)... What you have is loseless mjpeg frames in .avi container - which doesn…

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
Personal View Feature Film Collaborative project
No "rêve de grandeurs" (don't know the english translation, but i think it's the biggest threat for such projects that can be very cool and doable if modesty lead the whole thing !...) no crew, no specific skills, but just for fu…

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
MJPEG FPS setting for Timelapse on GH2
@jfro why you don't use the gh13timelapser before editing/grading ? After several tests it's seems that you can't record files larger than ~2GB (~1H20 with my settings) in mjpeg, after that the recording stop.

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic, series 3
@bhwitz after effect+finesse ftw ;-)

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic, series 3
@bwhitz "I'm also thinking of doing a GH2 intra grading tutorial..." Please do this ! :')

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
Edelkrone Pocket Rig
It's already out. Cost 390€/528$ without shipping... (edit : free shipping) http://www.edelkrone.com/store/pocketseries.html Gotta love their design.

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
Jibs - Light and portable?
@ed_lee83 sample & crappy video review request here ;-)

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
Voigtlander lenses
ahah, the canon is probably going to be a step to it ! :-) I've the fd 35 f2, love it, but the voigt 35 1.2 is still tempting !...

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
MJPEG FPS setting for Timelapse on GH2
works perfectly : thanks for your cool tool @GH13Timelapser (my intervalometer is between china and France, so you allowed me to do my first - and forgettable ! - timelapse ever ! ;-) )

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic, series 3
Well proaudio is right (if we're just talking of a bitrate drop and not a camera crash), a different card won't change anything in the behavior of the (variable bitrate!) codec in the exact same situation : you'll never have a constan…

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
GX1: "Compatible" with UHS-1 SDXC Cards
Well for Intra-patches, what would be the ultimate good news (if such sdxc support come w/ the new GH2 firmware) as @VK pointed out, is the ExFat standart of thoses cards : spanning issue resolved... =)

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink
GH3 - Worth waiting?
@lolo I did that thing with my RJ adapter : stepless aperture works fine, but... now my 50mm ssc is stuck in it ! just can't figure how to remove that bloody thing (not a huge problem until i have to sell it) :') In the meantime, thanks to…

Comment by astraban November 2011 permalink

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