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.
It’s a selfie world out there now. All they think and see is themselves, everyone else is just there to receive their awesome. A world of kardashians and biebers.
Simple. You can make the video easier with one hand if it is vertical. Horizontal normally takes both hands. I’d think most of the ones doing the videos are keeping the other hand free for something.
Next time, turn the box before you open it. Problem solved 😀😃😆😎😂
now that’s just plain funny
When it can bring in the firewood or plow the roads, I might be interested.
The funny thing is that I rarely use it as a phone. I hate talking on the phone.
Well, "phone" refers to speech, and that's how humans used to communicate, now they've gone retrograde to an "AOL Instant Messenger" form of communicating nothing. A "phone" by definition, refers to speech.
It's been "extra-featured" right out of practical reality. Most of these kids...welded to their tiny screens, are little more than zombies. That level of technology given to morons (which they are)...keeps them stupid. They can't spell, and they can barely string two sentences together.
They might as well be chimpanzees (only chimpanzees would know better)
The camera sensor is rectangular and it's installed in a fixed orientation.
I agree with post 5.
Also, I think you’re being too sensitive. We have a lot more video available than before smartphones. That’s a good thing. Even if some of the videos are poor quality... Vertical, unsteady hand, etc.
The “difference between a good video and a bad video” is infinitely less than “the difference between a video and no video”.
You are correct in your evaluation of good vs bad video, but you’re taking it too hard.
Texting doesn’t tie up comm lines as long, it’s cheaper.
Because they’re amateurs.
Both are excessive ego.
Even before the advent cell phones, I’ve never liked having long winded telephone conversations whenever it is possible to just talk to the person in person. Of course sometimes that’s not an option. But I’ve been known to have been engaged in back and forth emails with a co-worker at work, sometimes in my own office area, and I just walk over and have a real face to face conversation with them, often accomplishing much more.
But then again I’m not a big fan of texting either when a simple phone call or a face to face conversation would be better. Texting is good for a quick message but not IMO for long “conversations”. I find it funny and sort of sad when my niece sends a text message to her teenage son or daughter to come downstairs because dinner is ready.
OTOH, in my department at work, we use group texts to notify each other when we are calling out sick or working from home or running late or sending a reminder about being out for a meeting. IMO that is much more efficient than calling everyone separately or calling our admin and have her communicate the message to everyone else.
And my employer recently set up an emergency notification system that sends out texts (or if preferable, an email or automated phone message, although about 99% have opted for texts) whenever there is a declared weather day (i.e. for hourly production workers, this means that if they get to work late or leave early because of bad weather/road conditions, they won’t be assessed attendance points) or for a late opening or closure, cancellation of a 2nd or 3rd shift.
This used to be accomplished with many phone calls; a plant manager calling all their managers, the managers calling all the shift supervisors and the supervisors calling all their direct reports and not being able to reach some by land line phone, or having employees call a special phone number with a recorded message that was often difficult to reach when the system was overloaded. This new system really came in handy when one of our plants experienced an electrical fire and was closed for several days last year. The company would send out texts to all employees keeping them informed of the closure and keeping them informed as to the progress and status of the re-opening. Being that I have a company issued laptop and the sort of job where I can, I was able to work from home and love the technology that enables me to do so.
I also have 8 great nieces and nephews and at Christmas time or during late March and early April when 6 of them have birthdays within a two week period, I send a private FB message to their mom’s asking for gift suggestions, clothing sizes, etc. and even imbed links to store websites or from Amazon and the moms message me back with yes or no (Santa already got that for them) or web links to their suggestions.
Sure I could call them and probably end up playing phone tag or have mom not able to talk because the kids are nearby, trying to describe the item, but the messaging is IMO much more efficient.
It is not about being a zombie or a slave to the technology or not wanting to talk to them (we often talk to each other, mostly in person – face to face as we all live nearby) but it is a useful tool.
That level of technology given to morons (which they are)...keeps them stupid. They can't spell, and they can barely string two sentences together.
One of my great nieces is graduating from college next week with a degree in History, with honors, on the Dean’s list as she has been on every year (and she was in the National Honor Society every year since she was eligible, has won several scholarship awards, got to the semi finals of the National Spelling Bee in the 7th grade). And she has been accepted into graduate school and as a paid Graduate Assistantship that will pretty much pay for her post graduate degree. She is extremely bright, very articulate and well read and hard working given that even with her scholarships, she holds down a part time retail job in which she has been promoted several times.
She is on several social media sites and loves her “smart” phone but that hasn’t caused her to become a “moron”.
Because the 16:9 aspect ratio doesn't really offer a fuller field of vision.
It would if the cameras used a shorter effective focal length lens. But with the effective focal length used, and when shot horizontally, the 16:9 ratio cuts off the top and bottom of the scene.
You can see this for yourself by taking a few pics of the indoor of your house with the camera in a horizontal orientation. You will see the ceiling and the middle, or the middle and the floor, but you won't be able to record the floor, middle and floor.
By flipping the camera vertically, you can record the ceiling, middle and floor.
You have found many appropriate uses for the available technology at hand, however you and your niece (congratulations) obviously are not who I’m talking about (unless she regularly walks into lamp-posts while “texting”...or “texts” while driving)
As Dave Ramsey says: “How’d you do that? Most people’s kids are freaks!”
However, although each generation of American youth is getting progressively stupider...compared to other countries, the latest crop is WAY down the food chain, according to statistics and testing.
The new Samsung Galaxy S6? A lot of reviews rate it higher than the iPhone 6.
And ETA, the vapid kids who are “zombies” to their phones, the ones who are stupid, self centered, can’t spell, and can barely string two sentences together would be so with or without their phones. I know because I knew some of these kids when I was a kid growing up in the 60’s and 70’s long before personal computers, smart phones and video games. You can’t fix stupid. And stupid people have always been with us and always will.
No. I have a Galaxy 4 but am due for an upgrade.
How’d the doctoring go, Johnny?
Maybe it was on another thread and I missed it.
But have been wondering.
I agree to some extent. Our educational system is not what it once was and yes, overall I think the average American has gotten stupider with each successive generation. But smart phones and advances in technology is not the reason but how some use them is a symptom.
I would not agree that we are WAY down the food chain but it is sad that we are not at the top:
See my last sentence, post #53.
Throw in legal pot, gaming and texting. It’s all agenda driven.
Stupid votes RAT. (useful idiots)
Why don’t you take your frustrations out on the cellphone manufacturers who don’t rotate the camera in the phone so as to make it more comfortable to shoot your beloved horizontal video?
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