[ExI] tv news reports

[Henrik Ohrstrom]

Amen to that, also bigger optics gives better picture.
Really good mics tend to be somewhat bigger.
/Henrik

Den fre 21 sep. 2018 09:34ilsa <ilsa.bartlett at gmail.com> skrev:

> Lurker Comment
>
> Equipment Is Uniform
>
> It's what separates the Crab Crowd from the appearance of professionals
> Just saying that back in the day when I had my my press card it always was
> easier when you had a quipment with you, though  attitude trumps everything
> Like Gray t-shirts
> Smile
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 6:01 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The other day I saw one of those news trucks with the satellite antenna
>> towers covering some trivial thing.  There was a reporter there with a big
>> microphone and those huge cameras the news people carry.
>>
>>
>>
>> Then it occurred to me to ask: why the heck do they still need all this
>> stuff?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fox-news-truck-with-tv-antenna-park-in-street-gm601920488-103467627
>>
>>
>>
>> We have cell phones which can transmit reasonably good video real time,
>> no mobile satellite tower needed.  No huge microphones needed: a simple
>> Bluetooth phone with a boom mike makes it perfectly easy to understand what
>> the reporter is saying with one of those.  Those huuuuuge cameras they
>> carry on their shoulders, why?
>>
>>
>>
>> So now we have left over from the old days what musta been a jillion
>> dollars worth of equipment, none of it necessary anymore because we have
>> video cell phones.  Yet the old stuff is still in use at least occasionally.
>>
>>
>>
>> So puzzling.
>>
>>
>>
>> spike
>> _______________________________________________
>> extropy-chat mailing list
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>>
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20180921/9b712bfc/attachment.html>