Well - this may be just a preference thing then. Glamour photos may like soft-focus lenses, but Ansel Adams would've been appalled. (Just FYI, Adams was a pioneer of infinite depth of focus and optical perfection, i.e. sharp lenses, in nature photography.)

Mmmmaybe... I think you might be confusing the issues though. Your comment begs the question, "So you associate HFR with soaps, why don't you like soaps?"

I'm trying to go deeper than that - let's reverse the situation. Imagine everything you ever saw was shot in 48 fps, and then somebody shot a new film in 24 fps. Would you find it better? Would, on average, most people find it better? Or worse?

Actually - I was referring to the "young-un's" you mention. If you go young enough, there is no such thing as unfamiliar vs. familiar. I'm wondering a a larger scale than you're talking about: if young children can find themselves preferring the HFR and create moving and touching films for them at the HFR, then…

Vincent - Mr. Laforet - aka an amazing director - thanks for your take. I wonder if this is what it was like to go from black and white to color. I wonder how much of this is psychological. It feels a lot like the shortcomings of 3D HFR was just because it was unfamiliar. Younger people have an easier time with…

Not bad, but as always with physics, there are a few problems:

Isn't your math wrong? A tweet is 140 characters. Currently, a non-https shortened link is 20 characters, which means you have 140 - 20 = 120 characters left over. Try it out on twitter - insert a link and it says you have 120 characters left.

VOTE: Shure SE215.

They're freaking out as the helicopter crashes. I'd expect their eyeballs to freeze. They might still be freaking out, just for a very different reason.

...what do you think happens to people at -150 degrees??

OMG, exactly. I'm in physics, I know a smack-down when I see one. This is the academic equivalent of being slapped in the face so hard - with your own paper no less - that you travel back in time. They just can't actually do that because, you know, manners & professionalism.

This is copied from The Story of The Other Magi, by Henry van Dyke. To date, it's the best answer I've found to why it is okay to lie. The context: Harod sent Roman soldiers to kill babies matching Jesus' description, trying to prevent Jesus from becoming king. Artaban, the fourth magi, is late, and comes…

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance had an interesting insight into this. Pirsig says that instruction manuals are written by writers who come down to the engineering/design department and interview somebody. The boss looks around and gives the writer the engineer who he feels can spare his time. That's…

I invariably wake up after 4-5 hours of sleep and can't seem to go back to sleep for another 2. I'll just lie there, bored, for like half an hour and eventually give up and read or something. When I finally do go back to sleep, I sleep another 3-4 hours, and I feel fine. Any suggestions??

What about the reverse - using my iPhone 5 sim in a cheap phone I don't mind getting beat up? (For instance, on camping trips.)

Really?? I've had this for weeks now. I freaked when I first saw it, but once I realized I couldn't see anybody else's, I calmed down.

National parks and mountains are pretty terrible too. Mount Rainier isn't on Apple Maps, neither is Pinnacles. Yosemite is a giant, empty, unlabeled, slighly-darker green blob. Same for Joshua Tree. This is really just rather sad.

Battery life doesn't affect clock speed. The real difference is that the slow iPhone is on iOS6, and the fast iPhone must be on iOS5 or less.

First photo is Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz. It looks exactly like the day I was there shooting. It's definitely unaltered - my photos needed very little tweaking, the light was perfect. I wonder if I just barely missed seeing it...

Lightsaber: Check out an axicon. They've been used to create a plasma, and can control length depending on how you mask an incoming beam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axicon