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Madrid • A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominos, killing 80 people, according to eyewitness accounts and video footage obtained Thursday.
An Associated Press analysis of video images suggests that the train may have been traveling at twice the speed limit for that stretch of track.
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Spain's government said two probes have been launched into the cause of Wednesday night's crash near this Christian festival city in northwest Spain. The Interior Ministry raised the death toll to 80 in what was Spain's deadliest train wreck in four decades, while 95 remained hospitalized, 36 in critical condition, among them four children.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, a native of Santiago de Compostela, toured the crash scene alongside rescue workers and went to a nearby hospital to visit those wounded and their families.
"For a native of Santiago, like me, this is the saddest day," said Rajoy, who declared Spain would observe a three-day period of mourning. He said judicial authorities and the Public Works Ministry had launched parallel investigations into what caused the crash.
Eyewitness accounts backed by security-camera footage of the moment of disaster suggested that the eight-carriage train carrying 218 passengers was going too fast as it tried to turn left underneath a road bridge. The speed limit on that section of track is 50 miles per hour, Spanish officials said.
The footage, which the Spanish railway authority Adif said probably came from one of its cameras, shows the train carriages start to buckle soon into the turn, with the first and second passenger carriages leaving the tracks first. The engine itself quickly follows, violently tipping on to its right side as it crashes into a concrete security wall and bulldozes its way along the ground.
In the background, all the rear carriages can be seen starting to decouple and come off the tracks. The picture goes blank as the engine appears to crash directly into the camera.
"I saw the train coming out of the bend at great speed and then there was a big noise," one eyewitness, Consuelo Domingues, told The Associated Press. "... Then everybody tried to get out of the train."
Santiago officials, who had been preparing for the city's annual Catholic festival Thursday, canceled it and took control of the main sports stadium to use as a makeshift morgue. There, relatives of many of the dead could be seen sobbing and embracing each other.
Maria Pardo Rios, spokeswoman for the Galicia region's main court, said 73 people died at the scene, four others after they were taken to hospitals. The Interior Ministry later confirmed a 78th death.
A regional Galicia health official, Rocio Mosquera, told reporters Thursday afternoon that 95 people remained hospitalized, among them 36 in critical condition, including four children.
The Interior Ministry, responsible for law and order, ruled out terrorism as a cause.
It was Spain's deadliest train accident since 1972, when a train collided with a bus in southwest Spain, killing 86 people and injuring 112.
"July 24 will no longer be the eve of a day of celebration but rather one commemorating one of the saddest days in the history of Galicia," said Alberto Nunez Feijoo, regional president of Galicia. Santiago de Compostela is its capital.
The accident created a scene that was "Dante-esque," Feijoo said. He declared seven days of mourning for the victims.
Rescue workers spent the night searching through smashed carriages alongside the tracks.
As dawn broke, cranes brought to the scene were used to lift the carriages off the tracks. Rescue workers collected passengers' scattered luggage and loaded it into a truck next to the tracks.
Rescuers described a scene of horror immediately after the crash. Smoke billowed from at least one carriage that had caught fire, while another had been torn into two parts.
Residents of the residential neighborhood closest to the rail line struggled to help victims out of the toppled cars. Some passengers were pulled out of broken windows. Television images showed one man atop a carriage lying on its side, using a pickaxe to try to smash through a window. Other rescuers used rocks to try to free survivors from the fiery wreckage.
Nearby, rescue workers lined up bodies covered in blankets alongside the tracks.Next Page >
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1. Drink a glass of water every hour. It will make you feel full.
2. Pick one food for the day, like an apple. Cut it into 8 slices. Eat 2 slices at breakfast, 2 at lunch, 2 at dinner, and you'll have 2 left for a snack. This way your body thinks it's eating 4 times that day, but in reality you've only had 1 apple. The next day pick another food. Make sure it's only 1 serving that you split up into 3 or more throughout the day.
3. Dont try to fast for days and days. First of all, fasting for long periods of time actually slows down the metabolism, second, it increases binge cravings immensely, and third, it affects your mood greatly. Instead of being happy for losing weight, youll be depressed simply because of lack of food.
4. If you live on your own or have a lot of privacy, tape/tack up pictures of your favorite models and always carry one around with you. When you're hungry pull out the picture. If you live on your own, tape them up on the fridge, freezer, and cupboards (just remember to take them down or cover them when people come over).
5. Always wear perfectly applied sticky lipgloss or chapstick. It keeps you very aware of what goes in your mouth, and makes you think twice about eating anything, because you will have to carefully re-apply.
6. 'Pro Plus' are caffeine tablets which you can just buy from most shops, no need for calorie infested coffee, they are also easy to take if and when you do eat anything.
7. If you're a smoker and you're hungry, light up a cigarette. It curbs your appetite and you no longer feel hungry. If youre not a smoker, however, I wouldnt advise you to start simply to lose weight.
8. If you are really craving food, brush your teeth with a strong mint toothpaste. This helps to put you off food because of the taste it leaves behind.
9. When you are hungry, do something gross like dig for worms, clean a kitty litter box, or something. It will make you less likely to eat.
10. In between each mouthful of food that you eat, take a sip of water. It fills you up and slows down your eating so that you stay in control and the meal doesnt turn into a flat-out binge.
11. Dexatrim - take 3 a day 1/2 hour before you eat and drink water and you'll be full after just a few bites. Dexatrim, however, is not safe for those of you already on medication. I used to do the whole diet pill thing years ago, and as a result, my heart is permanently damaged.
12. When drinking water, drink ICE COLD water… your body has to burn calories to keep your body temperature up.
13. I would not recommend taking laxatives because they are not an effective way of purging, and you actually gain weight by taking them. There are natural laxatives though, found in foods like prunes and grapes. Also, there are certain sugar-free cough drops and candies that produce a laxative effect because of the sugar substitute used in them.
14. Try to eat in the same place every day. Somewhere solitary. Not in front of the TV or computer. If you have to stop what youre doing to go eat you might not even bother.
15. Eat what you crave. But eat it before you crave it in moderation. For instance, instead of a whole chocolate bar, get one of the small ones and only eat 1/2 of it. Allow yourself to enjoy it. Deprivation leads to bingeing.
16. Sleep at least 6 hours a night. Less than 6 hours sleep a night stimulates appetite by 15%. A lot of people with eating disorders suffer from insomnia, but it really is important to get as much sleep as possible.. Not just for weight loss, but because it helps the body stay healthy even though it is starving.
17. Lower the temperature in your house 10 degrees to burn more calories, or take an icy cold shower/bath. Like drinking the ice water, it causes your body burns calories as it tries to warm you up.
18. Always eat teaspoon size amounts of food at any one time and chew well. You will become fuller with less food so wont want to finish what's on your plate.
19. If youre really hungry, buy a bag of low fat low calorie hard candies. When you suck on them a lot your stomach will tell you that you are full.
20. Try drinking more hot beverages, especially in fall and in winter. Hot liquids expand the intestinal tract and make you feel more full. A warm drink can help take the edge off your hunger, preventing overindulging later. In fact, soup can do the same. Bullion cubes are only 5 calories a cube, and they taste wonderful.
21. Focus especially on the first three bites. After that, the excitement of eating will begin to slowly subside, and you'll probably be content with a smaller portion.
22. Spicy foods raise your metabolism and burn slightly more calories than mild foods.
23. If you feel like you want to eat, go to a friends house that you cannot just raid the fridge at. Being around other people will make you less likely to eat since most people with eating disorders are embarrassed of being caught eating in public.
24. When you go out, take only a few bucks with you so when you walk past the pastry shops you can't afford anything.
25. Before you dig into that carton of ice cream, bag of chips, etc., take a deep breath and count to 100. Usually, by the time you stop counting you will have convinced yourself that you don't really need it.
26. Write a note to yourself listing all the reasons you are finally ready to lose weight. Keep this letter with you at all times, for inspiration.
27. Check your head. Never eat anything bigger than your head, even lettuce. You'll only stretch your stomach out. Train your tummy to settle for less.
28. You'll eat less on a black or navy blue plate.
29. Eat your sweets at breakfast
30. If you love a certain food, save the wrappers even after you've eaten it. Smell it when you're hungry.
31. Don't Swallow! Take a bite, chew, and spit it out.
32. Track your triggers. Log them in a notebook, post them in your journal, whatever. This way youll know when a trigger is going to hit, and youll know in advance to keep yourself occupied during that time.
33. Sit up straight. You'll burn at least ten percent more calories sitting upright than reclining.
34. Kelp pills help to boost he metabolism.
35. Never eat anything bigger than your fist.
36. Get your tongue/lip/labret pierced, therefore you can't eat. Not only will your mouth be sore, but youll have something to strive for, a new motivation. For me, when I get a new piercing I starve myself because I want to look good with the new jewelry.
37. Drink 2tbsp of vinegar before the meal, so it well help suck out the fat out of it.
38. If you're being watched, try the opaque cup trick. This ones a classic: Pretend you're eating, and spit the food in the cup while you pretend to be drinking - don't forget to get rid of what's in the cup though!
39. Go to the kitchen often, and pretend youre snacking. Take a bite out of something and take a long time, look in the fridge, etc. They will think you're always in the kitchen eating, and won't suspect anything.. If you never go in the kitchen, your family will notice.
40. Go Vegan or vegetarian, or just cut out red meat altogether… Meat and meat products have a lot of fat in them.
41. Have a peppermint. Peppermints actually decrease hunger.
42. When you get hunger pains, curl up in a ball. It really helps them go a way.
43. Drink tea whenever you get hungry and drink as much as you want its low in calories, and it fills you up.
44. Hit your stomach when it grumbles because that will make the sound go away and your stomach will hurt too much to eat.
45. Diet soda, contrary to what it says on the bottle, is not calorie-free. It is, however, still low in calories (one calorie a can), and though its not as good as drinking water, it will fill you up.
46.Metabolife really curbs your hunger and cravings, as well as gives you energy when you're restricting. Though, as with the Dexatrim, using Metabolife will interact with other medications, causing possibly permanent heart damage.
47. Try varying your daily intake. If you eat, say, 200 calories a day, you will hit a plateau in your weight loss and your metabolism will slow down greatly. Instead, try consuming 400 one day, 600 the next, 200 the day after, and so on. The numbers are up to you, but whatever you do, make sure the calorie content doesnt stay the same.
48. Green tea is not only an anti-oxidant, you can burn up to 110 extra calories a day by drinking several cups.
49. Persuade yourself that you don't like a food, take your favorite food and when you look at it and think yum, think yuck instead. Even if you dont believe it at first, even just thinking it goes a very long way, and eventually you will convince yourself that you really dont like the food.
50. Always leave at least 3 hours between eating anything and going to sleep. If you eat before sleeping it can help you to put on weight, the 3 hours gives your body enough time to burn calories, which you wouldn't burn if you went to sleep.
51. Hide a plate or zip lock bag near your computer. Right before supper, go to your computer room and when supper is ready say youre doing your homework and want them to bring your meal to you. When you get it, just put it in the other plate or zip lock bag and bring the dish back up in 15 min.'s. Just make sure you dispose of the food later.
52. Take a picture of yourself scantily clad, and every time you want to grab for the cake and cookies and ice-cream, just look at the picture (it could be nude but keep it hidden).
53. When you have a craving for sweets, have 'crystal light' sugar free candies. They're delicious, and are HALF the calories of normal hard candies.
54. Taking more than the recommended dose of kelp makes you feel sick and you don't have to try and restrict.
55. Buy lunches/dinners of canned/contained foods, like lunch buckets, then without cooking them hide them in your room or locker as if you were eating them, and instead walk/drive them once a week to your local homeless shelter. This also helps those of you, like me, who feel guilty for wasting food.
56. When you are in school or at work, grab something on your way out the door to eat (because youre in a hurry)-and throw it out. Then when lunchtime comes, go to the library instead of with your friends. Also, get involved in an after-school activity. This way you come home after everyone else has eaten and you can take a plate of food to your room to eat while you are doing your homework (put the food in a bag and throw it out with tomorrows breakfast).
57. Wearing "fashionable" gloves and scarves really helps when you get cold and makes people less suspicious than if you're always bitching that you're cold when its over 80 degrees out.
058. Celery actually burns calories. Every hour, eat a stalk of it. Not only will it fill you up, but it'll also get your metabolism kicking.
59. When you feel you need to eat, list the reasons why its not such a good idea. By then you'll most likely lose the craving, and you'll have convincing reasons not to eat.
60. Try Green Orange or Bitter Orange (found at health food stores). They contain synephrine, which increases your metabolism more effectively and it's not as dangerous to use as ephedra.
61. Coffee! On an empty stomach it will make you feel sick and will curb your appetite while burning calories because of the caffeine.
62. Always wear a rubber band on your wrist.. When you're tempted, snap it. Operant Conditioning is a wonderful thing (You know, Pavlov, the infamous salivating dog and Baby Albert?).
63. If you get hunger strikes, go on a walk or sleep…keeping your mind off food will make them go away. And if you exercise to avoid eating, you will automatically get into the Cant eat, need to get thin! mood.
64. If you're in college, plan your schedule so that it spreads throughout the day. That way you won't have long gaps of time where you can pig out in your dorm.. Wont your friends be jealous when they gain the Freshman 15 and you havent?
65. Whenever you get hungry, think of all the people who made fun of you in middle/high school.
66. If you are eating a meal, only eat every 4th bite. Take a bite, spit it out, repeat. But when you get to your 4th, swallow.
67. Low calorie hot chocolate is great for suppressing those chocolate cravings and it makes you feel full, too.
68. Put your fork down in between bites at meal time.
69. If you feel empty, try this: you can buy bagels that are 98% fat free, split it in half, chew on it for a while. They fill you up, as they appear stodgy. Once you've eaten a mouthful, spit the rest out. They're dry so they encourage you to drink water, which fills you up.
70. Always keep a trash can near you when you eat so if you feel like you are going to over eat, you can just make it a reflex action to throw the food away. You can't think about it though, because you'll just decide to eat. Even if you've only eaten 2 bites, if you feel that you might be full, just reflexively throw the food away. If youre at a restaurant, just choose a seat next to the trash. I don't recommend this tip if you're eating with other people, though.
71. If you're annoyed at your family for always trying to make you eat breakfast with them, tell them (while holding your stomach with your arms and looking like you're about to puke) that you always feel sick after you eat in the morning so early. Or that you have to go swimming in a few hours, and that you don't like eating before that.
72.If you do cook food, make sure it's something that takes a long time to cook (like cookies or a pasta or something) and also has a strong aroma, so that way when it's done and you're ready to eat it, you will have gotten filled up just by the smell and waiting and you won't be able to finish it all. It also helps to drink a lot of water while you're waiting, as that fills you up, too.
73. When you are really hungry, take some anti-heartburn pills. Stomach acid is always being made to help digest food and when you don't eat it builds up and you feel hunger. Pills help neutralize the acid and you won't get hunger pangs.
74. If you throw food in the trash can in your bedroom, make sure you get rid of the bag before going to bed, otherwise it will reek in the morning.
75. Drink plenty of water, at least 8 glasses a day. This is an obvious one, but there are other reasons to due this, other than weight loss. Drinking water ensures that the kidneys are functioning properly. If you are not fully hydrated this means that the kidneys are not working to their full capacity and results are that the waste products are then dumped onto your liver, which is where the fat process actually occurs. Water actually speeds up your metabolism.
76. Exercise and sweat. When you sweat you burn calories, obviously. Don't overdo it, however, because then you will have a heat stroke. Also if you take a hot bath, you lose water from sweating, but when you drink all the water it comes back again. A good way to do this is if you are going out and you really want fit into that tube top for summer, then just don't drink anything and take a really hot shower and sweat a lot. You will be thirsty but you will have lost a lot of weight for the time being. Remember: body is 98% water.
77. Eat a tiny piece of onion (like 1/2 in square). That way you have onion breath and people believe you really ate.
78. If you have a craving for sugar, try fat-free, sugar free Jell-O… its only 10 cals per serving… if you want you can eat the whole bowl and its only 40 cals.
79. Get tape or those roll up bandages and wind them tightly around your stomach. It stops you from eating because you can't get the food down properly and you also look thinner.
80. If you eat at night before you go to bed, make sure you lay on your left side. It makes the food go through your system faster and wont have as much time to suck fat out of the food. But remember that you shouldn't eat before you go to bed. It slows down your metabolism.
81. Keep yourself extremely busy, almost to the point of being completely stressed out, and you can go for 8hrs without being hungry or wanting to eat.
82. Use two of the Ginseng packets you find in convenience stores if you don't have diet pills (mini-thins work well also). Be sure you don't take more than two every six hours or so because if you haven't eaten in a while, 3 can give you the shakes.
83. If you don't feel comfortable not eating too much, eat only a hard boiled egg, an apple, and a glass of water. It will fill you up all day.
84. Remember, out of sight is out of mind. If there are goodies lying around on the counters or table, put them away and/or hide them. That way whenever you walk through the kitchen you won't be tempted.
85. Make vegetable soup with low cal veggies cut up in chunks. You can have a full bowl and feel full, but actually you havent eaten very many calories.
86. If you can, get a job around food. It will curb your my appetite drastically, especially if you work in a fast food place such as McDonalds.
87. Get comfy in bed. Being comfortable means you don't want to move, which means no getting up to get food.
88. Take zinc and potassium supplements. These work well with kelp in raising metabolism and mobilizing fat.
89. If you have a terrible craving, turn on the TV. Most likely, some sort of show will be on with skinny, gorgeous actresses/models. It's a definite way to curb an appetite.
90. If sitting at school or work, constantly tap your feet/fingers. Fidgeting throughout day is proven to burn up to 800 calories per day.
91. If you're talking about celebrities, make sure to mention how you think Calista Flockhart is too thin and that you think Kate Winslet is gorgeous. Praise fat and people will never guess that you're starving yourself into thinness.
92. If you're in outpatient treatment and have to have your blood tested - a comprehensive metabolic panel - there are a few ways you can fool the test. One, drink water - LOTS. You need to flush the ketones that have built up in your system out of your body or else they'll know you're starving/burning fat. Two, eat some nutritional stuff - yogurt, fruit, cereal - the day beforehand as well as a few hours beforehand, Technically, you're supposed to fast for 12 hours before the test for it to be accurate in measuring your vitamin levels. NOT fasting will up the vitamin levels. Three, make sure you always take vitamins. Finally, you'll want to make sure you get your electrolytes in. Smartwater has 0 calories and lots of electrolytes - perfect for this tip and the first one! So drink up.
93. Wear nail polish to cover up the bluish tinge that starvation gives your fingernails so others don't suspect it as much.
94. Have to go to a restaurant with someone? Some ways you can avoid eating much - 1. veganism (makes it hard to find suitable food); 2. severe food allergies (always a good answer when they offer chocolate!), or 3. order something that you've never tried before. When you taste it, say you don't like it.
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96. Use your mind - think about what the food would look like in your body after you have eaten it… hopefully that will put you off.
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If you're doing a lot of ultra urban, inner city driving (like say...in downtown Manhattan or in downtown Chicago) - probably moreso mass. Cuz you keep having to accelerate and decelerate that mass. So a LOT of energy is spent just on MOVING the damn thing.
But if you're doing say...a constant 75 mph - mehhh...that depends.
If you design the pick-up so that it "LOOKS" like a pick-up today (big, huge, bulky, like a brick), then hurling a brick at 75 mph is going to encounter a lot of air resistance no matter how much you try to make a brick aerodynamic. But on the other than though, mass is somewhat more "predictable" in terms of fuel economy specifically because kinetic energy is 0.5*m*v^2.
So if you say..make a truck 10% lighter, the relationship between the two is pretty well linear. Aero - on the other hand is a LOT less "predictable". (I used to run the computational fluid stuff while I was an undergrad research - not for cars or an OEM, but the nature of fluids and computational fluids is as much an art as it is a science right now. And there's still a LOT of debate amongst CFD users about what is the best way that is the most generally applicable. And it doesn't help that 35 years later (roughly) - there STILL isn't a general concensus amongst the experts in the field give you a glimpse as to how difficult the problem is and how difficult making such a claim/statement is.
And part of it also comes as a result of the customers too. OEMs can probably MAKE a very aerodynamic pick-up truck, but by then, it probably wouldn't look anything like the pick-up truck that people know and have envisioned in their minds. So, they end up having to like "undo" that, and well...yeah...you end up with what you've got today amongst all of the pick-up truck manufacturers.
It's the same or very similiar idea with the CVT transmissions and how people were complaining that you couldn't feel it shift, so OEMs HAD to change the transmission control algorithm and put the "shift feel" back into the CVT (which basically made the whole point of a CVT moot or near-moot).
OEMs (in general) get a fair bit of that. People generally don't like change. But once in a while, people eventually realize that the change was for the better. Much, MUCH better.
(The basic drag force equation is 0.5*rho*v^2*Cd*A and if people want the frontal profile of a pick-up to be a brick, then pretty much almost all of those numbers are locked/fixed values either because they're constant for comparison purposes, or constrained, however artifically).
(Note: I cannot stress my disclaimer enough. Even though I work for an OEM, I've also worked in the supplier base as well as an automotive engineering analyst, so I am speaking for myself based on my discussions at conferences with experts and my collective experiences. And a little bit from having actually done bits and pieces of it as part of my studies/personal research.)
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Posted 28 January 2013 - 02:02 AM
Pretty good list. Couple of things - I'd put the F65 at the top, it is the only true 4K camera sampling from an 8K sensor! GH2 is above FS100 for resolution.
Posted 28 January 2013 - 02:27 AM
Updated. Regarding the GH2- how do you know the GH2 provides higher resolution vs. the FS100? Any links to tests/reports etc.?
5-min documentary [5DmarkIII]: http://youtu.be/BLbZ_nwm8-I?hd=1
Posted 28 January 2013 - 02:35 AM
Why is RED not listed as 5K?
Posted 28 January 2013 - 02:46 AM
RED Epic has 5120 x 2700 Bayer pattern sensor. As Andrew noted, we need at least 8192 photosites (minimally, in green, horizontally) to actually capture 4096 pixel resolution (Nyquist- math and physics). Right now only the F65 has 8K sensor resolution (which provides for the most part full 4K resolution (but not quite: download the brochure from this page: http://pro.sony.com/...hend-F65.shtml )).
The goal of this list/table is to show actual, measured, real-world performance (which can differ greatly from advertised specs).
5-min documentary [5DmarkIII]: http://youtu.be/BLbZ_nwm8-I?hd=1
Posted 28 January 2013 - 06:23 PM
The goal of this list/table is to show actual, measured, real-world performance (which can differ greatly from advertised specs).
Not that I doubt your figures, but what is your source? It be nice to see the measurements/comparisons.
Posted 28 January 2013 - 07:00 PM
Thanks for that list I've thought something like that would be nice for a while. GH2 is possibly about 830 lines with the hack I reckon.
Posted 29 January 2013 - 01:40 AM
guys, where is gopro ?
Posted 29 January 2013 - 02:09 AM
markm- if the GH2 is 830 TV Lines (horizontal resolution), that would mean the FS700 is less (per Andrew), however the FS100 is rated at 1000+ TV Lines. Are there charts, lab data to support these numbers?
Found an FS100 chart: http://www.dvuser.co...fs100/chart.jpg
http://www.dvxuser.c...p/t-232565.html (GH2 rated around 800 lines).
I have a GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition. 1920x1080 looks decent, 2.7K looks OK but suspect it's not really 2.7K (haven't tried 12fps 4K; would guess closer to 3K). I don't have any data from tests showing actual resolution. If someone has a source/link I can take a look and add it to the list.
5-min documentary [5DmarkIII]: http://youtu.be/BLbZ_nwm8-I?hd=1
Posted 29 January 2013 - 08:50 AM
It seems quite odd that "post-sharpening" has increased resolution on the 5dmarkIII. If you are gonna do something cool and get cameras into a resolution list, then they would actually need to be measured. Changing sharpening in post does not change results from a real resolution chart.
Posted 29 January 2013 - 09:31 AM
JCS TV lines described in advertising literature I don't believe has any relevence at all so I would disregard that.
I initially thought the GH2 had the same resolution as the Panasonic AF100 at about 630 lines which is an awful performance that doesn't even match 720p. I think it is fairly common for the large sensors to have about 800 including the Sony F3. Really you need tried and trusted experts like Adam Wilt or Alan Roberts to do these tests..
Also sharpening cannot increase resolution.
Posted 29 January 2013 - 09:34 AM
Updated. Regarding the GH2- how do you know the GH2 provides higher resolution vs. the FS100? Any links to tests/reports etc.?
Posted 29 January 2013 - 09:54 AM
Hoo rah cameras..
I'm gonna make a full frame Iphone that shoots raw and fits in your pocket.. I i "AM" form factor.. Siri tells you if the shot was worth a damn also.. my camera is the first to instill concidence with verbal validations. Makes the Dragon sensor look cute. 4k is so 2013.. Real innovation doesn't start until you can see a cold developing on the surface of his fingernails. In a bat cave around midnight at 2,365,432 iso with no noise. 12k for $12k. Where you at now Canon? I hear the ball dropping.
Posted 29 January 2013 - 02:22 PM
Have a look at the details for F65, I think that although a 16-bit process is used, colour information is actually 12-bit by the time you get the footage. Or something like that... maths...
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Posted 31 January 2013 - 03:15 AM
I realized that we could reasonably simulate test chart results in software. A camera system (Gaussian) blurs light before the sensor (anti-aliases) then decimates (A to D samples pixels) into discrete photosites.
I downloaded the ISO12233 test chart and converted the PDF into a 1200 pixels/inch bitmap (Photoshop CS6). I then Gaussian blurred it 3 pixels and downsampled (bicubic smoother) to 1920x1080, then sharpened it to make the results more clear (to increase accutance):
Note aliasing starting above 900 lines.
I went back to the blurred 16K image and did the same process down to 1620x910 (+ sharpened):
Note that aliasing starts to become apparent around 600 lines.
Blurring and decimating is a common method to resample pixels. However, there are better resampling methods than bicubic such as the sinc-based Lanczos (Premiere Pro uses Lanczos).
In the 1920 example, we see it is pretty clean all the way up to 1000 line pairs.
Compare to an actual FS100 test chart shot: http://www.dvuser.co...fs100/chart.jpg
Looks like a solid 1000+ TV lines (with two interesting diagonal aliasing bands).
Now compare to the GH2 :
Different chart; Barry Green rates this as around 800 lines perhaps could be rated higher, but not as high as the FS100 chart result. We could say 900 or so before detail extinction.
Philip Bloom's test compared the hacked GH2 to the FS100's 24Mbps codec. It appeared to me that the FS100 low detail/resolution could be due to overcompression. If using an external recorder, the FS100 should be able to do much better in that test case.
The 5D2 was rated at 440lp/ph (vertical resolution), so that would be 880 vertical pixels and if horizontal resolution is similar, we'd get 782lp/pw or 1564 horizontal resolution. Thus approximately 1564x880 pixel resolution. It's possible horizontal resolution is less- if anyone has a reference, please post it.
The 5D3 providing around 1620x910 resolution (the bitmap size before rescaling to 1920x1080 per ML folks) or around 810 TV lines seems reasonable:
(890 line estimate was perhaps a bit too generous).
Closeup of the 5D3 still scaled to 1920x1080 (represented full 1920x1080 resolution on the device):
Closeup of 5D3 1080p video post-sharpened:
We can see decent line pairs out past 800. 810 would be fair and matches the 1620x910 pre-scaled bitmap reported by the ML team.
As always, if there are better chart or other real-world test results, please post them.
5-min documentary [5DmarkIII]: http://youtu.be/BLbZ_nwm8-I?hd=1
Posted 31 January 2013 - 11:10 AM
Pretty good list. Couple of things - I'd put the F65 at the top, it is the only true 4K camera sampling from an 8K sensor! GH2 is above FS100 for resolution.
Andrew, I am guessing, you meant the AF100, instead of the FS100. Please correct me, if I am wrong.
Posted 31 January 2013 - 11:35 AM
JCS I appreciate what you're trying to do but tests like these have to be done by the book and with proper test charts otherwise your results wont match other tests and are meaningless.
Posted 31 January 2013 - 08:05 PM
Hey mark- a chart test is pretty straightforward, right? Align and focus correctly, shoot. Other than having the chart too close, errors in set up result in reduced measured resolution. In my day job I work with cameras, pixels, and math. For example, we could do an automated FFT/DCT for a groups of photographed(video) lines at various resolutions and look at the frequency bins to get an empirical measurement. For such a test, we'd want to clean up via sharpening the source frames to remove as much low-frequency information as possible (improving accutance (a form of microcontrast) as much as possible). I suspect the slashcam.de test did something similar and didn't post-sharpen the 5D3 footage, resulting in an abnormally low high-frequency measurement.
The charts I found looked pretty solid. Which one(s) do you feel weren't done by the book?
5-min documentary [5DmarkIII]: http://youtu.be/BLbZ_nwm8-I?hd=1
Posted 31 January 2013 - 09:30 PM
Andrew, I am guessing, you meant the AF100, instead of the FS100. Please correct me, if I am wrong.
No - GH2 is better than AF100 on a test chart for resolution.
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Guest post by Cantillon
In recent years it has become very fashionable amongst the want-to-be contrarian crowd to focus on the relative valuation of gold to other assets – particularly vs equities. There are clearly long swings of relative equity appreciation and then of relative gold appreciation – the latter being not terribly happy ones economically, socially, politically and geopolitically. The argument has been made that since in previous cycles the value of the Dow to Gold reached an extreme of 1.5 to 2, that this is a reasonable expectation for what can be achieved in the present or most recent cycle of relative Gold appreciation.
Possibly this may yet be proven right, but it is interesting to note that we have close-to-hysterical public sentiment regarding the perceived consequences for commodities of QE (the Glenn Beck special was really quite amazing, as has been the widespread public chatter over a supposed large dealer short in the precious metals) and objectively still-negative big picture sentiment towards equities (consumer confidence in the dumps, Obama approval rating very low with Osama bounce almost erased, net AAII relatively oversold, and a generally grumpy public mood).
Just today, I was struck by the FT publishing an admiring profile entitled "Angus Murray: believer in real assets". Mr Murray is the CEO of a $500mm asset management company that offers a wide range of offerings including commodities, emerging market equities, and post-war art organized around a unifying thesis that a devaluation of money is under way, and that inflation is significantly understated based on the official data. He believes that in addition to the end of imported disinflation from the emerging world, the increase in the money supply seen in recent years will lead to acceleration in this devaluation of money from here. He recommends a portfolio of 40% emerging markets equities (since he is sure that returns will be poor on developed world equities) and 60% precious metals.
Now I do appreciate the evils of monetary inflation – I first read Milton Friedman and Hayek in 1989; have worked at the Cato Institute, where I read many books by the Supply Siders and journal contributions by the late 70s/early 80s advocates of restoring the gold standard; I persuaded Sir Samuel Brittan (then editor of the FT) to review David Glasner's book on free banking in the FT; in summer 1999 I asked a member of the Austrian seminar at NYU if we were not at a moment very like in the 1920s (monetary inflation hidden by productivity growth and imported disinflation). And I have been a long-term commodities bull since shortly after I first heard Jim Rogers speak in London at the Institute for Economic Affairs on the launch of his first book. In summer 2003 I expressed very strongly to my boss, head of an investment company with substantial assets, that it was a momentous trade at that juncture to take the free money from the Fed and buy hard assets. So I do appreciate the longer-term arguments in favor of precious metals and against equities. I just don't think making money in the markets is as easy as some otherwise very smart people seem to believe. Secular investment trends have a habit of expiring just when one is finally able to persuade a reasonable number of people of the merits of one's argument and to be recognized for that.
To step back for a bit – the chart below shows what is easy to forget – that it's really a paper asset vs commodities cycle: taking a view on stocks vs gold is similar to taking a view on stocks vs crude over the long run. Crude sentiment and positioning is extreme, and reading the media/bank research response to the selloff reveals astonishing complacency. Even my deflationist friends ("the US is like Japan, only much worse") are bullish crude based on a supposed structural supply-demand imbalance. Reading notes of the recent Skybridge hedge fund conference – held one week after the silver crashlet - (with some heavy hitters incl Burbank, Steve Cohen and others) showed participants very worried about 'black' swans involving commodity prices taking off to the upside, but there was not one mention that prices could go significantly lower, let alone break Mar 2009 lows in some commodities with adverse consequences for more leveraged producers. The legendary Mark Fisher, author of the "Logical Trader" put forth what seemed to me to be a nonsensical argument: up till now there has been no fear premium; since there now is starting to be one, one ought to earn this by buying every dip or selling put spreads. At the risk of not paying sufficient respect to those more experienced, to me this shows a complete failure to grasp the intensity of the present mania for hard assets (and therefore scope for a substantial mess when it reverses).
Five factors come to mind that might lead to substantially weaker commodity prices on a 6mo – 2.5 yr horizon
- Falling resource intensity of Chinese growth – possibly we are quite far up the S curve of industrialization. Plenty left to go in other regions, of course.
- Slowing growth in the emerging world as lagged response to rate hikes and rising inflation in the developed world with tighter US policy – fiscal and monetary – leading to strong dollar.
- Unanticipated increase in supply from the Arab world, at least temporarily, as a consequence of the Arab Spring.
- Dawning realization that high commodity prices of past years have in fact led to large increase in supply (at least in some areas) – with a long lag. We mistook delay in supply response for no response. (Particularly significant with regards to Shale Oil, which by some estimates could lead to an increase in supply of 3mm odd barrels per day by 2015).
- Ebbing of inflationary psychology amongst producers, consumers, investors and speculators. Maybe people are just tired of being bullish.
If I am right about commodities, it's hard to expect that Gold doesn't also experience a substantial correction – although no doubt it would hold up a bit better than copper or crude.
Of course the other leg to the trade is that consumer confidence, consumer spending, job growth, credit growth and house prices are all at a juncture where much lower gas prices (up 50% from August low last year!) could kick start the next leg of the recovery and the next leg in an equity market rally.
(Since first drafting the above rather longer term take, I realize that I suppose I should include the brewing mess in Europe. No matter how much support core Europe can be persuaded to give to the periphery, there is no way for the periphery to recover competitiveness without maintaining very much lower inflation than the core for some years. And of course of late they have actually continued to experience inflation. Germany's higher rate of growth in productivity simply makes the extent of the problem worse. So the only way we can possibly avoid an unraveling is with EUR/USD very much lower, and substantially higher German inflation over time. Once we get there, German exporters are likely to see a surge in profitability, since they are already profitable at the present high exchange rate. Of course wages are likely to grow under such circumstances and we should see rents and house prices rise also. I think the best case scenario is that we have a messy few months ahead for the periphery; and this isn't by any means the most likely or only case. Weaker global growth, weaker risk appetite and a strengthening dollar would of course tend to hurt commodity-related plays much more than US equities).
I do not want to discuss it in much length at this juncture, but I am not sure that art – of whatever period – will be such a rewarding place to hide. In the old days, before art was considered a legitimate asset class, it was always the case that art and collectibles would perform very impressively just as the surge in liquidity was coming to an end. The boosters of this market suggest that things are different this time. I am not so sure.
Regarding breakeven inflation – that subject deserves an entire post of its own. But I think that the present focus on inflation is overcooked in the near-term. Stabilization in commodity prices will bring headline inflation back down closer to core. And if we do see commodity prices fall, as I expect, the current short-term panic that we see should ebb. I don't think that changes the longer-term picture though that we are indeed early in a cycle of rising inflation (that began shortly after the tremendous outbreak of complacency and self-congratulation amongst central bankers as they recognized the 'Great Moderation'). Even a horrible central banker can bring down inflation progressively over each cycle with little effort if imported goods are falling and there is a period of modest productivity growth at home; at the best of times, and in the best of cultures, it is much more challenging to decide to impose short-term pain in order to achieve a long-term benefit of low inflation and belief by people in price stability. Since World War Two we have grown rather accustomed to comfort, and I wonder how much suffering we will need to endure before we realize the cost of not recognizing what must be done and executing it rather than ignoring the painful aspect of the situation and hoping it will go away.
The point is that I think liquidity flows into asset prices early into an inflation. This is fun for the wealthy (who benefit from asset prices going up) and less so for the poor (who see their cost of living go up without a compensating increase in wealth). Later we may see a period that is less fun for everyone – assets go down, but the cost of living goes up.
Many of the 'hard asset' bulls seem to have forgotten that a rising cost of living does not imply hard assets go up in price – particularly if it is a rising nominal rate environment. There is a prevalent belief that assets and commodities will rise so long as real rates are negative and credit growth exceeds nominal GDP growth. There may be some truth to this over decades, but if one incurs the minor unpleasantness (discomfort again!) of getting hold of the data and studying it, it becomes evident very quickly that this belief is misplaced on a shorter-term horizon. Industrial commodities tend to peak (or at least experience their most positive phase) when credit growth is at its height. If credit growth falls, even if it is from say 30% to 20%, that is outright negative for commodities in the short run.
I do think that one buys the dip in breakeven inflation. This is a tremendous trading environment for people involved in these markets. Sadly it seems to me that many investors have a misplaced exposure to this asset class – for example holding inflation-linked bonds on an outright/unhedged basis. Not exactly the ideal trade in an environment of rising real rates!
Here is a picture of a long-term perspective on the Dow/Gold and Dow/Crude ratios – it shows very well my earlier point that hard asset bulls – even Gold bulls – are making a much bigger bet on industrial commodities (crude included) that they might realize.
Dow/Gold and Dow/Crude Ratios
With regard to the outlook for equities here – I do think that there are many US equities that are at attractive valuations and will perform well on a longer-term basis. Sentiment about the economy is very negative, and should improve if gasoline prices come down as I expect. But would prefer not to run a large outright long trading position in US stocks, given various risks I see to growth and to risk appetite in the shorter-term.