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Same pass.

I work in this industry and I don’t think this is true. Look at these tests, using a camera that’s now two generations out of date: https://youtu.be/suZtYPIADHM?si=KMgFb1gEhA7z7QVm…

I tried with my phone vertical and couldn’t see anything. In horizontal ie bigger image it was clear as day. I think a lot of the variance is probably screens.

I see — a blog written by an unknown librarian is a better source than an Oxford fellow writing for a journal with a hundred year pedigree. No further engagement necessary, I think…

Yes, it is. Look at your source — hardly authoritative! And the so-called evidence... Thin, entirely circumstantial, and in places actually wrong. For example, Saturnalia went — at…

The Christmas/ Saturnalia link is a myth.

Not sure how multiple exposures helps? Smaller sensor, tighter aperture. So yes, more light or a more sensitive sensor.

Hmmmm. Which direction are you driving in where you can hardly understand them? I don’t think there’s a regional accent in the whole of the UK that’s “hardly understandable” spoken…

I don’t think that’s an argument from authority. “Experts have been discussing X without reaching a conclusion for a long time” is a premise from which a reasonable argument can be…

Zeiss cinema lenses (in particular master primes) have the least distortion I’ve come across

It was basically (no pun intended) this, though obviously not in bash: #!/bin/bash legs_out=( " " " .'''. " " - - " " | C ^ " " \ 7 " " | | " " / \\ " " | \\ \\ " " | \\ \\ " " / |…

I’m afraid not. It was incredibly simple, but I just remember being amazed that such a thing was even possible.

I was talking to my parents the other day and surprised myself getting pretty chocked up remembering how my dad had shown me how to program an ascii animation on his 386, and how t…

A video camera shooting at standard shutter speeds (ie if being used by a professional) would likely not show the bullet. If shooting 60fps for eg so 1/120 id guess the bullet woul…

Would plugging in your fastest external SSD and then using a hard drive read/write tester achieve some of the same ends? I've done that before with Blackmagic's disk speed test app…

Yes, or considered another way 1/25th shutter vs almost 1/2000th, ie a lot of motion blur vs. virtually nothing will be able to provoke blurring

I could see that being possible with a human language, but a non-human language? No way near enough context, I'd think.

I hope there are more models trained on more precise inputs going forward. I understand that natural language feels the most futuristic but while it has the lowest barrier to entry…

I’m not sure this makes sense. Lots of phenomena — including those possessed by biological organisms — exist without there being any evolutionary imperative for their existence. Fo…

Or even shoot a documentary as you go. Netflix could end up paying for your time.

I agree. I think one part of the problem is using English (or whatever natural language) for the prompts/training. Too much inherent ambiguity. I’m interested to see what tools (li…

Absolutely. I suppose what I was commenting on was a pattern I’ve observed that goes something like: 1. My videos don’t look good, it must be because I don’t have a good camera/len…

Lighting is also over-emphasised, in my opinion. The unfortunate truth is that it's everything . Production design and talent are HUGELY important. If you have an amazing art depar…

Lots of shots of Davinci Resolve, didn't spot any Premier at a quick glance? But it's not unusual for both to be used on the same production