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Using a belt instead of a chain on a bicycle: https://pin.it/36W90Gy To be fair though, I bet you that one day, maybe 30 years ago, someone thought that maybe a belt would work better than a chain. And he told his friend. And his friend made up every reason why a belt can't work, and how the...

This is the best explanation of how blockchains work. And so far, it has been the only one that I would share with others. It's so good that I'm going to go through it all again, just to refresh my knowledge. It's a lesson in how to teach and explain seemingly complicated technical subject...

"Precipitation occurs inductively." https://twitter.com/tan123/status/1608925432581357568?s=46&t=nr19z1BXCRiFKvdoGn7WfA

Many people have no idea about selling their cars. They think their main task is to get as much as they can for it. But that's bullshit. The main task is to sell the car as quickly as possible, for a price that is reasonable, so that room can be made for the next car. That's the mission, and yet...

I think we've all noticed empty receptacles in film and TV. It is very distracting and pulls you out of the story. Even in live theatre they have real beverages. The champagne might be alcohol free, but it's still real. The other thing is fake writing. Again, it's distracting. Once you see it...

The simplest trick in the book, and it requires zero manipulation or CGI. https://anthonyryanschmidt.com/

For years now, you could see it happening: Instagram is no longer about photography. Or, for that matter, cinematography. It's basically a bloated blogging platform where almost every account is either about cat videos or motivational speakers. And then you have channels, stories and reels, and...

Spoiler warning: YES. (15:01)

Actors aren't owed a job. The good news is that there will always be actors, whether on stage or on screen. A cartoon character, or a simple sketch, can convey the same level of emotion. However, the context of the emotion is more important.

H4VUser is dead so this is the best place to ask. So, I have a desktop app called StereoPhoto Maker Pro. It's great for making stereo GIFs from files from arbitrary cameras. But, I cannot find anything that's H4V compatible. Worse, when I save an H4V file to a Micro SD card, for portability...

I believe that fentanyl is being distributed to kill people, particularly Americans. A drug dealer wants his customers alive, not dead. Drug dealers don't care about you, but they do care about your money. So why would they sell you a drug that is so lethal? Not to make money, that is for...

https://twitter.com/iminpainrz/status/1560731077362065408?s=20&t=TX5ZfJ4z2BCf3EYkWeTJjQ There's a moral in here somewhere.

I have spent quite a while pondering the questions: why to predictions fail, should we bother making predictions, and if we do make predictions, how can we make them useful? Here is a list of failed predictions, some to do with photography: - AF will never be good enough to replace MF -...

When I first saw Phil's video, Downtown Los Angeles - North By Northwest, the first thing that came to my mind was that it felt very much like a film trailer. Fast forward two years and I actually made one from it. The voices are from various people I follow on Clash (the video sharing social...

The situation: a shopping mall in the early 1980s. The mall hasn't been doing great for a few years, until a new member of the board of management brings in new ideas that turns it all around. Featuring lots of '80s nostalgia, Christmas episodes galore, subtle journeys into liminal spaces, the...

https://www.shift-4.com/leitz-prime-lens-test/ I remember when Dragon was new, Jim Jannard spoke very highly of the previous Leica primes back in 2013: https://www.reduser.net/forum/dsmc1-cameras/dragon/106244-dragon-and-leica-lenses

I've noticed this a lot, but I never thought about asking anyone about it until now. This phenomenon has two ways of manifesting: a halo around the subject, or a different noise pattern. The photo below is a good example of that. It was taken with a Sony A1 and a a 600/4 GM + 1.4x TC at ISO...

When the history of Red is written, part of the lore will be this chart: I still believe that Red is working on a 645 sized sensor. But not for the sake of it - there absolutely has to be a significant advantage, otherwise it's just size for size's sake. (For those new to photography, larger...

So there's a wide variety of external camera monitors available. Blackmagic makes them, Sony makes them, lots of people make them. I do not own one. So here are my questions: - Can you customise the information displayed on them? Can they just show the image and not the settings? - Can you...

Here is what Red sells right now: V-Raptor DSMC2 Monstro 8K DSMC2 Monstro 8K Ranger DSMC2 Monstro 8K Monochrome DSMC2 Helium 8K DSMC2 Helium 8K Ranger DSMC2 Helium 8K Monochrome DSMC2 Gemini 5K DSMC2 Gemini 5K Ranger DSMC2 Dragon 6K Komodo 6K Too many? I note that Red does not explicitly...