Posted on 05/02/2015 5:04:53 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I just saw an amateur video of actor Chad L. Coleman of "The Wire" and "Walking Dead" going berserk on a NYC subway. Well, I feel like going just as berserk watching that video. Why? It had nothing to do with Coleman and everything to do with whoever recorded the scene on his cell phone because once again it was VERTICAL.
Why, oh WHY do people STILL record in the VERTICAL when it is obvious that turning the cell phone HORIZONTALLY allows for a much fuller field of vision in stark contrast to the NARROW band of the vertically held phone?
When I got my first cell phone equipped with a video camera, it took me like ONE try only to realize that holding the cell phone vertically makes for incredibly constricted videos. Therefore the easy solution would be to hold it HORIZONTALLY. The learning curve for this great "revelation" was exactly ONE video. After looking at the first VERTICAL video I NEVER made that error again.
So if you see ol' PJ on a subway screaming and yelling, it is just me ranting about WHY idiots out there never learn the simple fact on how to make videos with a wide rather narrow field of view.
That’s what happens when one spends nearly all of ones time watching TV while lying on the couch.
Are Obamaphones configured to shoot HORIZONTALLY? I’m NOT SURE.
Don’t be sorry for that, very good point. No fixing stupid.
And the world isn't ever going to be perfect. Or even close to right.
Get used to fallible humans. It's all we have.
/johnny
I dunno, I pretty much only talk on my cell phone, if I have to. And I never ever read the friggin thing.
It’s a phone dammit.
Yeah, but after they see the first VERTICAL video, you would think folks would figure it out for themselves. As stated, my first cell phone video was vertical and I hated it and from that point on recorded it all horizontally. It's amazing how many potentially interesting videos are ruined by that narrow field of vision.
It’s “vertically”
I have done the vertical once or twice for a few seconds without thinking then flip immediately.
So used to looking through a studio/EFP camera viewfinder even after getting out of TV years ago.
And these morons vote.
In the end, Idiocracy wins, then collapses.
LOL
/johnny
Pet peeve:
Why the hell don’t phone manufacturers make it optional as preferences for the phone user the orientation in camera & video mode?
Maybe they do now, but 3 phones later I still have to rotate mine manually when I would prefer holding my phone naturally when the stupid phone could do it automatically if I could change a bit switch...
Jimmy Jet And His TV Set
I’ll tell you the story of Jimmy Jet—
And you know what I tell you is true.
He loved to watch his TV set
Almost as much as you.
He watched all day, he watched all night
Till he grew pale and lean,
From ‘The Early Show’ to ‘The Late Show’
And all the shows in between.
He watched till his eyes were frozen wide,
And his bottom grew into his chair.
And his chin turned into a tuning dial,
And antennae grew out of his hair.
And his brains turned into TV tubes,
And his face to a TV screen.
And two knobs saying ‘vert.’ and ‘horiz.’
Grew where his ears had been.
And he grew a plug that looked like a tail
So we plugged in little Jim.
And now instead of him watching TV
We all sit around and watch him.
Shel Silverstein
This Ho Mosby is playing politics with the lives of three black cops . Obviously she doesn’t seem to think that “black lives matter”.
By the way, it feels good to donate to FR.
Being in the video biz, this also drives me absolutely nuts. But the idiots are out there ... they walk among us. Not much we can do about it.
Why are Freepers still venting their feelings in vanities?
Dude chill......it’s called force of habit - and it’s also related to how the person is using the phone prior to video - which is probably vertical for text, email, or God forbid, even use as a phone.
Therefore when a situation suddenly pops up worth video recording, the phone is in vertical mode.
But most of all, force of habit.......
I never thought much about the “problem” but evidently others have:
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