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| jackssmirkingrevenge |
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Trust you to put all our efforts to shame  looking forward to the video |
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| Insomniac |
| Posted: 03/12/2010 0:15 AM Post subject: |
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| D_Hall wrote: | | 8000 frames per second in 24-bit color at 1024x1024 resolution video. |
Holy mother of.... 
Should look amazing!
It's times like this when I don't mind being completely upstaged  |
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| D_Hall |
| Posted: 03/12/2010 0:24 AM Post subject: |
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| Insomniac |
| Posted: 03/12/2010 0:48 AM Post subject: |
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Haha, reading through the specs reveals one major hurdle for a consumer camera ever hoping to get anywhere close as far as capabilities go... Even with 8gb of memory you can only record for a few seconds or less.  The amount of data that these cameras can process is absolutely mindblowing... |
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| D_Hall |
| Posted: 03/12/2010 8:59 AM Post subject: |
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| Insomniac wrote: | | Haha, reading through the specs reveals one major hurdle for a consumer camera ever hoping to get anywhere close as far as capabilities go... Even with 8gb of memory you can only record for a few seconds or less. The amount of data that these cameras can process is absolutely mindblowing... |
And 5-10 years ago if I had fed you the specs of the Casio line used for most of this thread you would have had a similar reaction. No, it's not the electronics that make that camera beyond the reach of the consumer; it's the glass. But that's OK. As the Casios show, just because you don't have great glass doesn't mean you don't have "good enough" glass. As for the "electronics based" specs... If there's a consumer market, I predict the camera will come. Moore's Law and all that. |
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| Insomniac |
| Posted: 03/15/2010 2:27 AM Post subject: |
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| Posted: 03/15/2010 2:32 AM Post subject: |
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Nice videos as always but this was 10 times more amusing:
| Insomniac wrote: | | Woo! Pathetically small rockets going really slowly! |
Reminded me of the ultra dumbed-down Braniac's things - but very slowly segment  |
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| Insomniac |
| Posted: 03/15/2010 4:43 AM Post subject: |
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| Posted: 03/15/2010 15:07 PM Post subject: |
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I can't stand watching it personally, it's incredibly patronising and aimed at the lowest possible denominator, no offence to the Yanks but I was amazed to see it from a UK as opposed to a US show (usually it works the other way round, like the Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars comparison).
Love the beetle shots, what luck! |
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| Insomniac |
| Posted: 03/16/2010 4:10 AM Post subject: |
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| Posted: 03/20/2010 8:41 AM Post subject: |
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| Posted: 03/20/2010 9:34 AM Post subject: |
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| Insomniac wrote: | | Its fairly small now (its legs span about 4.5cm across) |
Here they don't grow more that around 1cm, that's actually quite big! No chance of lifting up the mesh and chucking a few moths into the arena? |
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| Insomniac |
| Posted: 03/20/2010 18:01 PM Post subject: |
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| jackssmirkingrevenge wrote: | | Insomniac wrote: | | Its fairly small now (its legs span about 4.5cm across) |
Here they don't grow more that around 1cm, that's actually quite big! No chance of lifting up the mesh and chucking a few moths into the arena? |
Haha, here the spiders smaller than 1cm are the exception rather than the norm Huntsman spiders can grow pretty massive (over 15cm across), and this coupled with their ability to run really fast means they have a nasty habit of scaring the pants off people.
I did actually feed it some moths yesterday because I felt sorry for it For some reason though, once on the inside the moths stay still and the spider seems to have great difficulty recognising them as food unless they move... One was sitting litterally 5mm away from the spider's leg, and it was only when it moved that the spider grabbed it. Didn't get that on film though. |
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| Insomniac |
| Posted: 03/24/2010 3:48 AM Post subject: |
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| Posted: 03/24/2010 3:58 AM Post subject: |
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Hmm if you get diamonds from water you better patent that crap right away! lol
You'll only get diamonds from oxygen deficient carbon containing explosives (TNT ect.) and then you'd have no chance of seeing them.. |
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