He didn’t get on with hardware people at all. Didn’t have much time for software people either. Theoretical computer science was his thing.


Why? Because there are people arriving from around the world, and this quickly overwhelms local policing.


Considering many of the issues would relate to customs or international travel, then yes there is often a customs/immigration element.


NBC are the only broadcaster to take their own full camera setup so they can focus on American competitors. They don’t have quite have the Olympic spirit.


In some jurisdictions


Most countries send a policing presence to major international sporting tournaments.


They’re there to assist policing American fans, not to protect officials.


Dont they still dothis? And subsidise it with higher spec items?


The fines are too good a revenue source. Ireland would be fucked without the steady stream they represent.


No, they have been ordered to release all the files arising from activities related to Epstein. Relevance to criminal activity was not a criteria. So if they cloned a storage device he had a Bash manual on, a Bash manual must be released.


Fix the shitty server first though.


DP Roger Deakins has a forum on his site where he answers these sorts of questions. The Arri Alexa Studio was essentially developed for him, as he prefers an optical VF. It has an academy gate, and Deakins favours spherical lenses rather than anamorphic so we simply take the width of the sensor and crop down to 2.40:1 aspect ratio to get the quoted dimensions. Your link quotes the capture resolution, which will have some excess compared to the finished material.
This was put through the DI process and at a later stage IMAX DNR’d a blow-up to 15/70mm.
This chap marches to the bleat of his own drum.


The TV licence funds the BBC’s 10 TV channels, 10 national radio stations, 6 regional radio stations, 50 local radio stations, 14 regional news operations, the biggest news gathering organisation in the world, 4 orchestras and music groups, world-leading R&D labs, S4C, local democracy reporters, and the World Service. It broadcasts in 39 languages and outputs 140 hours of news per day. It is also about to fund youtube creators. It’s cheaper than the German tax.


Apple announced it was moving away from Firewire in 2008


They showed Skyfall on 70ft IMAX screens, and that film was shot 2880 x 1200. Its not all about the pixel count.


Apple killed Firewire 4 years before Lightning came along.
That’ll be the altitude.