Offtopic

Its that time of year! Christmas films

Mimirsan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:45:04 +0000

I recently saw this great film...short (79 mins) creepy and a lot of fun!
I will start with
Rare exports

Tokyo godfathers (by the late Satoshi kon)

Anyone else got unconventional Christmas films to share? ;-)

Complicity

Mark_the_Harp — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:30:37 +0000

Although specifically about the US it's probably about all of us:

The truth has a unique sting, and an equally unique ability to heal the destruction wrought by dishonesty, fraud and lies. The truth hurts, because the daylight of truth demands changes that the self-serving and those in denial desperately wish to avoid. But there can be no healing or reconciliation without the truth, baldly stated and plainly spoken without artifice or spin. If we can finally be truthful with ourselves as a nation, then we must admit that our financial system is fundamentally based on lies, fraud, embezzlement, misinformation, perverse filters and incentives, shadow systems that mock transparency and regulation, class privilege and the systemic flouting of the rule of law. This is the truth that hurts because it reveals the financial system as one stupendous exploitative fraud; but it also reveals the complicity and irrelevance of our judicial system and the complete capture of the legislative and Executive processes of governance. There is a system of government in which rule of law is merely a propaganda screen, where financial and political Elites run the show and escape the consequences of their actions: it's called tyranny. The truth is that we live in a financial tyranny. There is no other truthful way to describe the U.S.

More at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-truth-hurts-and-heals

EDIT: one of the comments under the original article talks about a "Kleptocracy". Good term!

Foolish Expensive RC Helicopter Camera Wreck

bannedindv — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:58:35 +0000

Maybe put something cheaper on there and fly it first?

US democracy and human rights...yea sure...

gizmo — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:10:43 +0000

You can be arrested for dancing at the Jefferson memorial, a monument to "freedom and democracy".

Violence - Does a more peaceful world make you fighting mad?

cosimo_bullo — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:53:27 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-stats_n_1026723.html

The trend of a less violent world has been with us now for some time. Why? Do these facts seem to fly in the face of your personal experience?

Edit: it would be really great if you would read the articles cited before responding.
I've only read reviews of this book yet, but look forward to reading it:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228340.100-steven-pinker-humans-are-less-violent-than-ever.html?full=true
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2011/1020/The-Better-Angels-of-Our-Nature-Why-Violence-Has-Declined

US Senate wants the entire USA to be a ”battleground”

Diffusion33 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:50:08 +0000

US Senate wants the entire USA to be a ”battleground”

Occupy Wall Street

In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America.

Text: Mike Adams | Also watch this video: The US Constitution is gone

[The article's heading re-named on Dec 4, 2011 (01:28 local time SE). The word "declares" was exchanged with "wants"]

The National Defense Authorization Act is being called the most traitorous act ever witnessed in the Senate, and the language of the bill is cleverly designed to make you think it doesn’t apply to Americans, but toward the end of the bill it essentially says it can apply to Americans ”if we want it to.”
Bill Summary & Status, 112th Congress (2011 – 2012) | S.1867 | Latest Title: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 | Sponsor: Sen Levin, Carl [MI] (introduced 11/15/2011) | Related Bills: H.R.1540 | Latest Major Action: 12/1/2011 Passed/agreed to in Senate. | Status: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay. 93 – 7. | Record Vote Number: 218. | Latest Action: 12/1/2011 National Defense Authorization Act | Amendment details

This bill, passed late last night in a 93-7 vote, declares the entire USA to be a ”battleground” upon which U.S. military forces can operate with impunity, overriding Posse Comitatus and granting the military the unchecked power to arrest, detain, interrogate and even assassinate U.S. citizens with impunity.

GH13?

firebo14 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:51:59 +0000

What is a GH13? Is it a hacked Panasonic GH1?

Thanks.

Sorry.. there is no 'questions' board on this forum.

NYC Area Peeps... Anyone interested in a meet up and maybe a little GH2 Video safari?

rockroadpix — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:57:45 +0000

I think it could be interesting to exchange ideas in person for a change. I know, novel idea. Any takers?

Is there another hacked GH2 in Perth, Western Australia

kavadni — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:28:26 +0000

Is there anybody in Perth, Western Australia, with a hacked GH2 who would be willing to hire the camera to me on the 17th December 2011.
It will be used for the coverage of a musical performance.

Please message me if interested.

Kevin

Another thing to worry about (batteries)!

Mark_the_Harp — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:31:00 +0000

From an article about exploding iPhones:

The Australian reports that CASA has previously spoken of concerns about problems with lithium-ion batteries on flights. Lithium batteries are a known safety problem during flight, and are listed as a dangerous good by the International Air Transport Association.

Original article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/28/iphone-self-combusts-on-australian-flight_n_1115949.html?ref=uk-tech

THANK YOU VITALIY KISELEV !! and company

vesubio — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:31:12 +0000

thanks for your effort and move on with great work, greetings from barcelona.

Gami Orbegoso.

better quality video on vimeo?

hedrox — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:04:02 +0000

I was allways thinking about one thing but i couldn´t make a test because i don´t have vimeo+ account and also no GH2 body...as we all know, vimeo+ has a limitation on 1GB per file which is for all-intra gh2 shooters a little bit shame .. and let´s say i have a 1920x1080p video. I can render it and set the bitrate to highest possible but little bit lower than 1GB.. but i can also scale it down to 1280x720P (which would make a sharper HD than if I would shoot it in 720p natively) and set the bitrate even higher for 1280x720p video than on the 1080p ...because 1080p would have bigger capacity (MB) than 720p at same bitrates .. would that make a scaled full hd video to hd only with higher bitrates better on vimeo? or is it stupid? anybody who wants to try?

Which social networking site lets you embed photos that work on Iphones

kenoah — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:25:27 +0000

Long story short. Im using flickr.com to host my photos I take with my GH2 and post it on my website. but it uses flash. Is there another social networking site that is iphone friendly? thx!!!! YEEE RBG

The Empire Strikes Back

LPowell — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:41:09 +0000

Looks like the 1% are starting to get nervous:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/30/1041144/-Action:-Senate-Votes-to-Indefinitely-Imprison-American-Citizens?via=recent

Which tools do you use for hacking?

aav84 — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:54:46 +0000

Vitaliy_Kiselev
Which tools (soft and hard) do you use for hacking?
Could you describe process step by step?
I am wondering it in looking at possibility of hacking Sigma SD15.

25mm lens on 2x crop sensor identical to a 50mm lens on FF?

jimtreats — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:01:44 +0000

Hey,

I just thought i'd ask you guys that are smarter than me on these things.

I wondered as the title suggests if a 25mm lens on a 2x crop sensor, ie. micro 4/3. Was identical to a 50mm lens on a full frame sensor.

I kind of assumed they'd be very similar, with identical FOV, but i don't know quite how or why but i assumed that perspective would appear different for very close and very distant objects due to the 25mm lens vs the 50mm lens. Something that cropping alone doesn't perfectly imitate.

The reason i ask is a friend is trying to setup a 3D camera in a 3D package to be equivelant to my GH2. Forgetting movie shooting crop differences and assuming 2x crop, i'd told him 50mm lens equivelants. He started to question whether perspective looked right and i suggested that he actually used the 25mm lens and using camera aperture to simulate the 2x crop. Apparently doing so causes identical renders to be performed, something that I didn't expect if there were differences optically between the two scenarios.

If there is a difference between the two setups, what causes the difference?

Thanks a lot!!

Cheers

Introductions, tell us about yourself

kenoah — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:53:23 +0000

Wassup
introducin myself
new to video & photo
i use a gh2 with 20mm pancake
I also own pynkhouse.com
Will be here to ask questions etc.
Yeeee rbg

Ordering USB-sticks with content - experiences?

RRRR — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:46:29 +0000

If anyone has ordered USB-sticks for their video content (in greater quantity than can be made "by hand") I'd be very happy to know your experiences..
a) where did you order?
b) what did you use it for?
c) how much did you pay / stick?
d) are you happy with what you got?

AVCIntra-FAQs from panasonic

mozes — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:24:51 +0000

I did find this link to a pdf file.
Maby people here are interested in it.
in any way, it explains some things ;-)
ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/Panasonic/Drivers/PBTS/papers/AVCIntra-FAQs.pdf

Lets find out how many GH2's Personal-View has sold!

alcomposer — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:24:36 +0000

In light of Panasonic's downturn in revenue, lets cheer them up by posting here how many GH2's have been bought/sold due to the extreme effort of @VK and all of the tireless volunteers and donors here at P-V. (This should be in the 1,000's) Also include GH2's that have been bought due to your salesmanship...

Have a great day/night!

UPDATE: Fantastic response! I am sure there are many many more- and there will always be a domino effect! Lets hope someone at Panasonic realizes the great work and real economic power of P-V!

As I am the first:
+1 GH2

erase topic

tinyrobot — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:44:38 +0000

erase topic.

Ginger Apocalypse

B3Guy — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:27:06 +0000

So . . . I've got this song . . . and I want to figure out how to do a music video . . . any suggestions?

http://listn.to/BowelInducingTerror/player

Occupy Building 7

LPowell — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:03:02 +0000

http://occupybuilding7.org/

Washington’s enemy ‘doesn’t exist’

Faudel — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:01:09 +0000

http://rt.com/news/us-muslim-policy-sheuer-895/

Steganography Research Laugh

alcomposer — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:43:34 +0000

On doing some personal Steganography Research- don't ask why, I came across this cartoon describing the difference between encryption 'geek dream' and reality... For some reason the pragmatic answer reminded me of our leader here at PV... I wonder why?!

(subtext: Most of us here on PV are the guys on the left- with the best most crazy ideas- and VK is right- with an answer that is straight forward- but also something that we just didn't think of...)

:-D

ebay question

brianluce — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:00:36 +0000

Since so much ebay activity goes on here, maybe someone can offer advice on this:
I sold a nice IDX battery system. Buy has decent feedback, 185 transaction. But shipping address on ebay is Israel, but he's asking shipping rates for Russia. Is this any sort of red flag? Thought I'd ask.

Don't cry for your 5k dinocam (Post Scarlet world realities)

alcomposer — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:47:54 +0000

In this post scarlet world- where do the high level 5k+- cameras fit in?
Who is now interested in purchasing a Sony- Canon for 5k+- if for 9k you get RED? (forget about the new Canon 15k that was comedy relief).

Also - with GH2 being a prosumer camera (if not WTF is it really) what do Panny think will happen?
Semipros will even move up to RED (which will only get cheaper) and if your not a pro- you would buy that Pink Panny.

Point is - the mid range is endangered now with such high quality so close to the masses fingertips? (or am I totally nuts?)
The GH2 is endangered (and GH3) if Panny don't get REAL and unlock the potential of that sensor.

Unusual DSLR RIG - With Manual Controls

Rambo — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:48:56 +0000

Deal of the Week, Taking orders .. haha:-)

WikiLeaks Assange to be extradited to Sweden.

brianluce — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:08:18 +0000

LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations.

In a judgment Wednesday, Judges John Thomas and Duncan Ousely said that Assange, who was in court to hear the verdict, should be sent to Sweden to be questioned over the alleged rape of one woman and the molestation of another in Stockholm last year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45129622/ns/world_news-europe/

Red scarlet scheduled Announcement on November 3rd

bleach551 — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:23:08 +0000

looks like Red is trying to rain on Canon's Parade.

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?63672-Scarlet-(and-shipping)-announcement-Nov.-3rd...