I watched from start to finish, it took only 2 days. fun to watch, I enjoyed it. Made me think about the camera differences between you 2 & the handheld genuinely being pretty dang good compared to a dedicated camera with those lenses.
It was far less blurry, but had over sharpening in the software often. The fuji from the window made me go, "it has haze, but that's probably just because of the window.... Its f-ing amazing that it can zoom in that far & see it that well. It would easily be able to do far more with lenses that it could place on the dang thing. It's digital processing is like phones though, overly compensating for the lack of lens." I've been thinking about cameras lately, its my current hyper fixation I guess.
The audio worked throughout, which is great. Still get annoyed with my audio setup being terrible when I try to record in my car.
Good stuff, loved seeing you grow out of your shell a bit. Both of you cared, it was fun to see how nice people were. A great phrase to learn is would be to please write the needed kanji for signage on the maps. It makes it easier to brute force the signs when you go through all of the roads you did.
Glad the schtick of pretending to be doing it on purpose went away for a bit. That gets old so fast. Just eat it, basically. Its so much nicer. Seeing you grow as people in this & try to genuinely learn was the best part. The age of internet influencers just bs-ing their way through things has gotten so old, I'm quite sure that helped you get helped.
You gave in & went, "Yup! That was bad.... I need to apologize here, this is stupid. Please don't think of us like that." & it was probably one of those things that will help others that watched the series try to be better people. I'm glad you are showing them that.
The editing was nice, I really enjoyed seeing those changes & switches between their cameras. It did end up also fueling that hyper fixation.... Just a bit *pinches fingers close but not together*.... & I enjoy being helped into some of my habits. Enabled if you will...
*shrugs* well anyways. The handheld ended up just like the reviews on amazon together with this big movie on youtube has proven it to be, what I figured it would end up being for the most part. Good up close, has the issues with over sharpening, loves to contrast hard, its fun (once you get it) to move around, its super nice & compact while being easy to stand up & use for close things, can absolutely digital zoom with the best of them together with that lens it has & the huge sensor it has in it.
Compared to fairly expensive add-on lens dude, its looks so much nicer for these types of content creations. Anti-fog & needed cover for Michael over there would have helped, sure, but dude its kind-a big & needs a good mount system that goes around his adapted on lens. It would scare me, a little at least, to have that attached to the bike (suppressed chuckle) but like he didn't he had his own setup for that so he could hit those shots on the bike. It looked like a 360 camera that been peoples sponsor on youtube before & its not terrible.
Switching to his shots, it looks like the auto feature (if he was using it) really makes his stuff look blurry. Not in a good way. Kind of brutal, because to lug it around seemed annoying. I would think its just not the right kind of camera, needs a faster outright image stabilization, his seems built for tripod use & image taking versus the videos he's doing.
It shows. Sadly. I do feel for the dude though. He stuck it out with that set up the entire time & had to watch it fog up continuously, nothing he could do, wiping it down wasn't always going to work, etc etc etc. You know what I mean?
It makes me want to put that sensor in the handheld & shove it into his chassis for his camera (well one that isn't expensive & he's fine with tearing apart) because Ludwig's internals are small. Absolutely able to fit into something of that size. It needs a haze filter if it gets worse on that, haze filters are worth it. Seems like, those depth of colors come through, I managed to get a color calibrated monitor that has like a high percentage of dci-p3 or whatever color space & its worth it. Its IPS, but leagues better than the almost 2 decades old 4k tv my parents didn't want anymore I've been using.
DUuuude, I've been thinking about old vintage camera swaps. The lenses are awesome, the internals (sensors, programming (its just better these days), battery needing that level of voltage, the lcd (oled or amoled amright? yes.) the ability to use newer techniques to combine lenses for the sensor!) are just not great. At all.
I'm going to be blunt. Let's say it was an old Panasonic DMC FZ-30 with the amazing leica lens it has but it has only an 8mp sensor & can at best do 480p video. Great, vintage. Not great much else. Or maybe a Canon Powershot SX50 HS, its only a 12.1mp sensor but can do 1080p 30fps video, but it has a bit of an issue with fish eye lensing & can't do far away shots even though it has a 50x zoom. It's clear the old sensor just can't get it done. But within the range that's more portrait/vlogging it can do pretty well *shrugs* but wouldn't it be great if it could have something in that huge chassis that works a bit better.
I've been thinking of trying to brute force resin 3d printing needed parts to make internals secure for newer things, like even small compute units (like a old iPhone's main board & or similar) to shove into these old vintage cameras. Mostly because a chassis & lens is the majority of what's needed, but the programming for these nicer open source OS's can be made to work with these kinds of cameras & the needed image stabilization & work loads. The newer, but not nearly as pricey, sensors are just there sitting there.
The old chassises fit a lot of newer, but still older, boards which would destroy a lot of these older sensors. The reason I talked about a mirror, is mostly down to image stability. There are a few ways to make a ring mirror work to reflect back to the sensor correctly, which makes its possible to use older image stabilization methods that then work with our digital versions where the sensor gets zoomed in & you focus on the subject.
Not really what I'm thinking about, but still it makes me think. I get raspberry pi's stuff, but it just doesn't have the sensor & or really the programming (as of yet) there. So "broken" phones/cameras is what I was thinking about. Turn e-waste into something not e-waste. "it can't be done, can't be taken apart" on ai answers after looking up how to tear it apart only makes me want to do it harder. That sounds like someone telling you they don't want you to do it. Nothing else. Worded like that after being pulled from online (I found a manual to do it to some of these things) sources says its people being annoying online.
But, seeing his handheld work as well as it did, better "strap-ons" would work pretty well. The lenses don't need to be as big, the need to have it be mechanically stabilized is handled with some basic buys/3d prints (hear about them trying to remove 3d printing because they're afraid of how easy it is to build dangerous things with mud in the ground & not even use hardware store bought materials but they need to villainize a 3d printer that could be made easily with almost any hardware parts & some basic small compute units & ripped off of almost all kitchen & hardware store parts for movement, all while saying the operating systems need to be turned into something that they can't be turned into all while microsoft does the same thing?) & basic springs & rc shocks.
To balance it, wouldn't be too hard with the cool lenses those cameras have, battery baby! Just bridge it up, you know what I'm saying ;)
I mean, they have the cup holders now that can be made to do it with that camera he has. But that rig can be made to work with Michaels!.... I dunno. I dunno. *shakes head slightly*
There's gotta be a balance between the two of them that works nicely, right? Because we know the movement & servos will get roasted with all the extra weight, but there are smaller lenses from small handheld cameras like the panasonic sdr-h40p or the samsung with the tape recorder that has 34x zoom. Honestly did not save that one. Point is that the samsung one has the threads & even has the good lenses. It's about the right size for that which lowers the weight, but then others have complained about it not liking it in reviews, from what I remember.
With how content creation has become, you large & extraordinarily ubiquitous, a modding community would have formed. I would have thought, anyways, but I haven't found one searching for modding these old cameras. The one dude I shared his link about doing something like this for his phone on my bluesky is one of the few I've seen. 3d printing going mainstream... Again, felt like it was going to push harder in the space, but it hasn't. The cross over of that ven diagram from people liking tech & being into modding & cameras is huge. Same with those who know about the needed basics of electrical engineering (a few converters & or similar isn't hard, even better because back then the pins were massive compared to now, laser etch it to being soldered, seems easy enough) same for programming.
Are they as shadow banned from big camera going through & deciding to proprietary up all their stuff & keep quite when others in the industry get made to have usb-c only instead of being ever allowed to force obsolescence? We can't reprogram arm based chips? apple? It's basic stuff these days, a lot of open source has it done already for the bigger stuff. That community might have an issue with needing help, honestly. Promotion too to brute force through their bans.
A lot of broke people looking to get in, same on the kids side broke looking for a come up, Eh, eh!?
