On 24/10/2019 11:56, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:47:39 on Thu, 24 Oct
2019, Graeme Wall remarked:

Â*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4aHaSyBHvE
Â*(Rail-related content)

Nice view of the sky, you need to pan the camera down a bit to see
more of the road.

If I pan it down much, then you get a great view of the bonnet.

Always a problem with those things.


The vertical wide angle is a consequence of the horizontal wide angle.
An alternative would be to letter-box crop the video.

I agree I don't think I've quite got the compromise completely right.

Does it actually have much in the way of adjustment or is it a ratchet
type arrangement where you pick the least worst spot?

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Graeme Wall
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In message , at 12:23:32
on Thu, 24 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 07:02:49PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:08:54 on Tue, 22 Oct
2019, Recliner remarked:
Presumably they'll have moved on from HDDs to solid state storage by now?
They're only storing relatively low res compressed JPEGs, so the files will
be small.
My dashcam stores ridiculously uncompressed video.
250MB every 5 minutes.

Downloaded TV shows are typically 200MB for their 42 minutes.

I think that shows it's quite some time since you were on the
naughtynet! Looking at dodgy copies of rugby world cup quarter finals
highlights as an example, in the list I'm looking at right now no-one is
offering files that highly-compressed. Of those that are on offer, the
least popular is the most compressed (348MB for 32 minutes) and the most
popular is the least compressed (1.56GB for 32 minutes).

For the majority of TV soap operas, what we once might have described as
"VHS quality" is entirely adequate for viewers to follow the [rather
weak in many cases] plotline|story-arc.
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Roland Perry

In message , at 14:08:18 on Thu, 24 Oct
2019, Graeme Wall remarked:
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4aHaSyBHvE
*(Rail-related content)

Nice view of the sky, you need to pan the camera down a bit to see
more of the road.
If I pan it down much, then you get a great view of the bonnet.

Always a problem with those things.

The vertical wide angle is a consequence of the horizontal wide
angle. An alternative would be to letter-box crop the video.
I agree I don't think I've quite got the compromise completely
right.

Does it actually have much in the way of adjustment or is it a ratchet
type arrangement where you pick the least worst spot?

There are ratchet points, but somewhat a hostage to the fortune of the
rake of the windscreen.

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Roland Perry

In message , at 08:47:39 on Thu, 24 Oct
2019, Graeme Wall remarked:

Nice view of the sky, you need to pan the camera down a bit to see more
of the road.

How about this (without stabilisation):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWe0kjE6Ns

Doesn't really convey the bumps adequately. Suffice it to say they are
30mph max in a car, and used to be 60mph in a 4x4, but are now more like
50mph. Picked today because of the 4x4 coming in the opposite direction.
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Roland Perry

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:09:26 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 12:23:32
on Thu, 24 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 07:02:49PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:08:54 on Tue, 22 Oct
2019, Recliner remarked:
Presumably they'll have moved on from HDDs to solid state storage by now?
They're only storing relatively low res compressed JPEGs, so the files will
be small.
My dashcam stores ridiculously uncompressed video.
250MB every 5 minutes.

Downloaded TV shows are typically 200MB for their 42 minutes.

I think that shows it's quite some time since you were on the
naughtynet! Looking at dodgy copies of rugby world cup quarter finals
highlights as an example, in the list I'm looking at right now no-one is
offering files that highly-compressed. Of those that are on offer, the
least popular is the most compressed (348MB for 32 minutes) and the most
popular is the least compressed (1.56GB for 32 minutes).

For the majority of TV soap operas, what we once might have described as
"VHS quality" is entirely adequate for viewers to follow the [rather
weak in many cases] plotline|story-arc.

Yes, but not if they're shown on 55" TVs. People now expect HD
quality.

In message , at 16:08:47 on
Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Recliner remarked:

For the majority of TV soap operas, what we once might have described as
"VHS quality" is entirely adequate for viewers to follow the [rather
weak in many cases] plotline|story-arc.

Yes, but not if they're shown on 55" TVs. People now expect HD
quality.

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
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Roland Perry

On 24/10/2019 16:03, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:47:39 on Thu, 24 Oct
2019, Graeme Wall remarked:

Nice view of the sky, you need to pan the camera down a bit to see
more of the road.

How about this (without stabilisation):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWe0kjE6Ns

Doesn't really convey the bumps adequately. Suffice it to say they are
30mph max in a car, and used to be 60mph in a 4x4, but are now more like
50mph. Picked today because of the 4x4 coming in the opposite direction.

Looks better, a more natural drivers eye view!

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Graeme Wall
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Roland Perry wrote:

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Sorry - I had to.)

In message , at 16:53:33 on Thu, 24 Oct
2019, Graeme Wall remarked:
Nice view of the sky, you need to pan the camera down a bit to see
more of the road.
How about this (without stabilisation):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWe0kjE6Ns
Doesn't really convey the bumps adequately. Suffice it to say they
are 30mph max in a car, and used to be 60mph in a 4x4, but are now
more like 50mph. Picked today because of the 4x4 coming in the
opposite direction.

Looks better, a more natural drivers eye view!

A lot of that comes from cropping the excessively wide-angle original
video. On the other hand, if the video is to show what happened in an
accident, you do need as wide an angle as possible.
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Roland Perry

On 24/10/2019 20:53, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Sorry - I had to.)


Cardinal Biggles I assume?

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Graeme Wall
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