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OwlFancier posted:I feel like trying to run backwards up the stairs with a steadicam rig would be quite difficult even today. About 15 years ago I got a Steadicam Merlin and it was a fucken huge piece of poo poo. I used up building my own gyro stabilizsation system using big old heavy Hard Drives spun at full speed mounted in different axis'. Similar to a Kenyon Gyro:  https://motion-impossible.com/product/6x6-kenyon-gyro/
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I wanted a Steadicam until I met the Steadicam Operators club at my university. They would spend hours on end, every week, running around campus with their rigs for practice. Their video was buttery smooth and they could do obscene things with those huge rigs, but that's more commitment to a single bit than I've ever had.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:I wanted a Steadicam until I met the Steadicam Operators club at my university. They would spend hours on end, every week, running around campus with their rigs for practice. Their video was buttery smooth and they could do obscene things with those huge rigs, but that's more commitment to a single bit than I've ever had. I just want a gimbal for my skating and biking footage, or does everyone use action cams with some sort of accelerometer fed digital smoothing for that now?
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Grassy Knowles posted:I just want a gimbal for my skating and biking footage, or does everyone use action cams with some sort of accelerometer fed digital smoothing for that now? When I did real estate videos I used a DJI Osmo hand gimbal with a spare cell phone (it needs the phone's accelerometer) to great effect. I'd often start my videos on an electric skateboard (for that smooth front door zoom shot) and the gimbal could handle me stopping it and stepping off without hitching. It made some noise, but that wasn't important to me as I never used the audio. They don't make it anymore but they make a 2 handed version which.... seems less useful. No way to drive an electric skateboard that way at least. But hand gimbals are good if you're comfortable holding them. We also had a knockoff that worked similarly but I don't know the brand. E: I should mention that the Osmo app both controls the device and records for you and can do things like track an object or person as well. Not useful for me (I'd set the angle relative to the handle and lock side-to-side movement out) but potentially cool and also good for skating and biking. Shit Fuckasaurus has a new favorite as of 15:08 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Grassy Knowles posted:I just want a gimbal for my skating and biking footage, or does everyone use action cams with some sort of accelerometer fed digital smoothing for that now? GoPros are magic. I couldn't believe how smooth the footage from my mountain bike was.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:I wanted a Steadicam until I met the Steadicam Operators club at my university. They would spend hours on end, every week, running around campus with their rigs for practice. Their video was buttery smooth and they could do obscene things with those huge rigs, but that's more commitment to a single bit than I've ever had. That Eurovision dude getting rolled in on a hoverboard, jumping off to a ramp running, sweeping around the artist, must be their ultimate hero e: VVVV That's the one, yeah 
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F4rt5 posted:That Eurovision dude getting rolled in on a hoverboard, jumping off to a ramp running, sweeping around the artist, must be their ultimate hero This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f3mUs7rS1I spookygonk has a new favorite as of 12:03 on Oct 9, 2023 |
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F4rt5 posted:That Eurovision dude getting rolled in on a hoverboard, jumping off to a ramp running, sweeping around the artist, must be their ultimate hero They practiced moving onto/off of moving platforms, climbing stairs, and circling with a religious fervor, so yeah that guy should be Steadicam Jesus for comboing all three.
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Oct 9, 2023 12:10
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I’m more impressed by the focus puller, Christ.
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Saw this beaut at a local thrift shop: Part of me wanted to get it just because of those glorious chunky buttons, real dials, and wood veneer. But I didn't...because $50 for an old Betamax player is absurd.
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It's sad when people think Beta players have value, because they look up the prices of maintained and hand-restored units and fail to grok that the price is the labor. An unmaintained and unrestored player is basically novelty value alone. That specific unit says X-2 on the front because it's one of the first long play Beta players (2 hours on one cassette!) and as such has the oldest and least robust heads that do that. It's a pretty piece of art and obviously historical but even restored it's not a particularly good or notable player. It doesn't even have the optional clock! loving gorgeous though, thanks for posting it.
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My parents had a top loading Sony Betamax during the 80s. I don't know if it was due to Australia having a small market, but Beta was still widely supported at video rental stores up to the mid 90s
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Flipperwaldt posted:I hope one day it'll be ok to just say they were probably a lot like us without the nuisance of people insisting we need definitive proof of that. Nothing will ever add up to that, but we can acknowledge that we have a fair number of indications by now, maybe. They were people. I think my favorite way to get this across to people was several years ago, I was on a project at a public site (i.e. with tourists just a few feet away across the ropes) and we excavated a pretty basic but neat scraping tool. What really struck me was how utterly impeccable the ergonomics of this thing were: between the natural contours of the stone and the work its creator had done to flake and grind down the tool, it fit perfectly into the hand, better than many modern tools. When I handed it to visitors for them to hold you could see them realizing how much work had gone into that thing. Also I have a friend who did a lot of urban archaeology, so mostly privies, and one of the most common things he found down there were kids toys. People don't really change much!
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Yeah I get that. I found a flint scraping or cutting tool when I was eight or something and it still has some residue on it from the thing that was being cut presumably thousands of years ago and it's a crazy thought that some lab analysis could probably tell me exactly what it was.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Yeah I get that. I found a flint scraping or cutting tool when I was eight or something and it still has some residue on it from the thing that was being cut presumably thousands of years ago and it's a crazy thought that some lab analysis could probably tell me exactly what it was. Prehistoric poop knife
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Quorum posted:I think my favorite way to get this across to people was several years ago, I was on a project at a public site (i.e. with tourists just a few feet away across the ropes) and we excavated a pretty basic but neat scraping tool. What really struck me was how utterly impeccable the ergonomics of this thing were: between the natural contours of the stone and the work its creator had done to flake and grind down the tool, it fit perfectly into the hand, better than many modern tools. When I handed it to visitors for them to hold you could see them realizing how much work had gone into that thing. My dick is very similar.
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Armacham posted:Prehistoric poop knife
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Desert Bus posted:My dick is very similar. Perfectly shaped for your hand and no other?
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An Ergonomic Boner is a possible username. Dunno that it's great
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It's certainly ergonomic
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Armacham posted:Prehistoric poop knife Toe knife. Previous owner bled out from a botched toe.
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Quorum posted:I think my favorite way to get this across to people was several years ago, I was on a project at a public site (i.e. with tourists just a few feet away across the ropes) and we excavated a pretty basic but neat scraping tool. What really struck me was how utterly impeccable the ergonomics of this thing were: between the natural contours of the stone and the work its creator had done to flake and grind down the tool, it fit perfectly into the hand, better than many modern tools. When I handed it to visitors for them to hold you could see them realizing how much work had gone into that thing. ISTR an anecdote about some bone tool remaining unidentified until it was shown to someone's buddy who was a leatherworker. And he was like, oh yeah, that's a burnisher, I have one just like it, the bone ones are the best. So this technology was perfected like 40k years ago and nobody has managed to improve on it since.
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You Am I posted:My parents had a top loading Sony Betamax during the 80s. I don't know if it was due to Australia having a small market, but Beta was still widely supported at video rental stores up to the mid 90s Yeah I remember my first exposure of Beta vs VHS and it revolves around me crying cos I couldn't watch Tron.
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That's a good enough explanation as to why Beta failed, let the kids watch TRON Sony! 
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By popular demand posted:That's a good enough explanation as to why Beta failed, Better fake reason than the popular urban legend. Beta didn't lose because porn went with VHS. There was porn on Beta and VHS; Beta lost for a myriad of factors but in general the cost was too high for both the consumer (the Beta players and tapes) and producers (tapes, again, and the licensing fees to Sony.)
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Also Beta wasn't higher quality in practice like the myth says. Technology Connections has an exhaustive video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVVAQVdEOs In short, normal-speed beta is better than normal speed VHS hands down, but has a much shorter runtime. The first two sizes of tape could hold 60 or 90 minutes at this speed, which is obviously shorter than a lot of commercial films and much shorter than Standard Play VHS. To make up for this, Beta II speed was introduced, which is a half-speed mode that sacrifices quality for runtime. All but the highest end Beta tape stock was indistinguishable from SP VHS at this speed. Beta III was even slower, even lower quality, and had an even longer runtime but it was too little too late. By the time Beta III was introduced, most machines didn't even support Beta I for record or playback. Have a chart.  L-250 was the original tape and L-500 was the second. The numbers refer to linear feet of tape so they would have higher numbers on the package than the VHS tapes that listed their runtime in minutes. Betacam (the beta used by Hollywood that dumb nerds like to talk about) is a different format in a different form factor and is completely incompatible with consumer Beta devices.
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Beta was better than VHS because that's what I grew up with 
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I don't think I've ever seen Beta in person and I'm approaching 40. I've seen far more Laserdisc and even loving CED.
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CEDs are weirdly common, I feel like I spot them more often than laserdiscs.
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Explosionface posted:I don't think I've ever seen Beta in person and I'm approaching 40. I've seen far more Laserdisc and even loving CED. If you're not quite 40 yet then you're probably too young. I've only seen one or two and that was pre-1990. 43 going on 44 in a couple months
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Laserdiscs are great and there should be a thread about them. Idk what we would talk about there though. We just picked up Mars Attacks! on LD
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Wayne Knight posted:Laserdiscs are great and there should be a thread about them. Idk what we would talk about there though. We just picked up Mars Attacks! on LD I betcha Humphreys could carry the thread alone
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I’d love a laserdisc thread as well. I’ve never been too fond of posting on LDDb because there’s some real weirdos there.
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holefoods posted:CEDs are weirdly common, I feel like I spot them more often than laserdiscs. I wanna say that's probably (ironically) because it was such a failed format. Laserdiscs were always premium and we're bought by middle class people who probably just trashed it or sold it in a yard sale when they got tired of it. But CEDs bombed so hard that they got all bought up by like, Columbia Clearing House/etc, to sell in bundles to budget conscious consumers. Who are also the type to hang onto things long after they're obsolete simply because they paid good money for them at some point in the past. So then those boomers up and died and their hoarding explodes into every goodwill or thrift store in a twenty mile radius.
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ishikabibble posted:I wanna say that's probably (ironically) because it was such a failed format. I bought an LD player in 1992 and was in the Columbia House LD Club for about a year. I still have the player. but the last time I tried to use it, it would kick the disc back out or display a no disc error. Possibly a belt issue?
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I feel required to mention that when I stumbled upon CEDs in a thrift shop I used to frequent (near all the vinyls, of course), that I bought Star Trek II for the novelty of it. No player, nor real desire to seek one out.
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Explosionface posted:I feel required to mention that when I stumbled upon CEDs in a thrift shop I used to frequent (near all the vinyls, of course), that I bought Star Trek II for the novelty of it. No player, nor real desire to seek one out. Tbf even if you did find a player, the disc would probably play like poo poo with a bunch of skips and blips because CED just wasn't a very good format to begin with. Almost seems a shame its failure completely stalled any serious attempts to bring VHD, JVC's improved version of the same tech, outside of Japan, but then you remember that the timeline where we have legal precedent to be able to record pretty much anything with VCRs is the better one.
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Explosionface posted:I feel required to mention that when I stumbled upon CEDs in a thrift shop I used to frequent (near all the vinyls, of course), that I bought Star Trek II for the novelty of it. No player, nor real desire to seek one out. At least it's a movie you will want to watch when you finally get a player to test it.
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