www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/General-Discussion/Chat/George-Greenough-the-GoPro/ I started this thread in the general room... But on seconds thoughts, we'll probably have more fun with it in here!



A statement of facts;
1) George Greenough was a very early innovator of water cinematography, including the fact that he encased a motion picture camera in a waterproof housing, strapped it to his back, and shot some amazing footage at places like Lennox Head, NSW.
2) Modern Technology took the best part of 40 years to catch up, and sell the concept to the masses via devices like the GoPro
3) George has stated that with photography and cinematography, image quality is secondary to content, provided you have original content... content that nobody else has...

This leads me to 4...
4) GoPro (and similar) cameras have saturated us with crappy quality footage, of relatively repetitive content, however there is still the odd diamond in the rough...
5) But I often still watch it anyway!




Further reading...
George Greenough with his GreenoughPro!
www.georgegreenough.com/George_Greenough/Home.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Greenough

grom man go pros are being used not just in sports. t.v shows like csi have been using them for a while. they used on in a car about to blow up. it got good footage for them and was cheap and disposable

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Simondo said...
4) GoPro (and similar) cameras have saturated us with crappy quality footage, of relatively repetitive content

Thanks.


I lost lots of quality with the transfer - will not make that same mistake again!

But yes lots of them have been a little bit boring.... i will do my best to not be a part of the boring set going forward. Happy for feedback and suggestions at anytime

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Ted the Kiwi said...

Simondo said...
4) GoPro (and similar) cameras have saturated us with crappy quality footage, of relatively repetitive content

Thanks.

Just look at all the crotch shots in the 666 room

Nice avatar Doggie! I spotted that new source.
We like your movie Ted.

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doggie said...

Ted the Kiwi said...

Simondo said...
4) GoPro (and similar) cameras have saturated us with crappy quality footage, of relatively repetitive content

Thanks.

Just look at all the crotch shots in the 666 room

I love Keiron Rathbones Go Pro footage of his supping and kiting etc he has got it worked out Most gopro footage makes me seasick I would rather watch parliament time on ABC than SA gopro footageI wonder if Chrispy had any special gopro mounts in the old shop

Thanks for sending the avatar towball , No worries doggie any thing for you mate

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Simondo said...

Nice avatar Doggie! I spotted that new source.
We like your movie Ted.

I dont think technology took 40 years to catch up in terms of taking a camera in the water or any such action sport.

Whats happened is we now have a medium for every self glorifying wanker to post whatever they think makes them look good to the masses to try and prove their better than the next guy or show off, or promot something. Followed by a minority of people trying to show their mates stuff that don't all live in the same town. Gopro minimized the equipment to allow this to take advantage of one of the few unexploited sectors in sport left.

Ultimately I think gopro has set photography and cinamatography back not forward unlike people like GG and Warren Miller.

If it wasn't for the Internet there would be no gopro.

And yes I have one

What's that other product... Tri-pod mounted, you wear an arm band, and the camera follows you around... On concept it would give a much better quality product.

Do you think that the thread title has a funny ring to it?

Curious George... with Jack.

boofy our cameras never worked

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cRAZY Canuk said...

I dont think technology took 40 years to catch up in terms of taking a camera in the water or any such action sport.

Whats happened is we now have a medium for every self glorifying wanker to post whatever they think makes them look good to the masses to try and prove their better than the next guy or show off, or promot something. Followed by a minority of people trying to show their mates stuff that don't all live in the same town. Gopro minimized the equipment to allow this to take advantage of one of the few unexploited sectors in sport left.

Ultimately I think gopro has set photography and cinamatography back not forward unlike people like GG and Warren Miller.

If it wasn't for the Internet there would be no gopro.

And yes I have one

Some interesting points you make there CC. I agree with most. One thing I would add is that technology has taken a while to catch up - now that processing power is readily available and hence software for editing is so easily accessible then almost anyone (generalisation I know) can transfer from one medium to another with relative ease. If you think back 15 years when you had to take your film camera down to get processed - yes you could dod it yourself - but it required a lot of effort and some money for the setup so not many did it themselves. Now they can plug in there SD card to their laptop and play around with some free software to edit it. Its mad. So yes the internet has been a big driver, equally has been the medium to create the images / videos that can be shared.

GG has made a very valid point and no, I didn't really think about it too much because I don't really look at a lot of vids.

Now I find I'm asking myself "why don't I watch too many vids" and one of the main reasons is the point that GG is making, quality has gone out the window in favour of content.

Unless you have a close personal involvement in some aspect of a vid, then you're not really going to want to watch many of them if the quality makes photos of bigfoot look like they were shot in a studio by a pro.

Well this is slightly off topic - but it seemed appropriate to place it here - its one of the best vid's going around - the POV actually seems very real. Ok its football - but I think its awesome.