[Closed] Is everyone filming everything now?

I was at a music festival last weekend and there was a fellow in one of the mosh pits wearing a chest-mounted Go Pro. If I didn't have my glasses on I'd have jumped in the pit and slapped him about a bit 😆

I've not used mine for a couple of years.
Maybe I should fit it to my helmet. 😉

Do they make an extra small clamp? 😳

i have got to the stage where i cant even be arsed to take photo's, nevermind filming.

i really hate technology, i hate uploading stuff, i want a phone that just lets you call or text, nothing else at all. are these available?

I am filming myself typing this reply

that pause was me doing the nescafe coffee sign in your general direction 😉

All phones allow call or text. You don't have to use any of the other stuff and it won't work without a data network

yes, but it is there as a option on the screen. i dont want it, nothing. just numbers to call or txt.

I watched the Vulcan yesterday.

I only took a pair of binoculars.
It seemed I was alone in that.

It is getting daft. Was at centre parcs recently, and spotted a 3yo in the kiddy pool area wearing a chesty with a go pro blinking away on it... Just plain odd. Who's going to actually watch this stuff?

[quote=ton ]yes, but it is there as a option on the screen. i dont want it, nothing. just numbers to call or txt.

But you can take it all off the screen

Stoner.
Vid or it didn't happen. 😉

But you can take it all off the screen

how?

Ask a 10 year old to do it for you!

I just got a go pro for my birthday.

I recorded myself feeding the guinea pigs the other day.

OP this says a lot about your village...and not much else!

Ton I have my mums old pensioner mobile for sale, many other basic models available for the tech free hipster.

There's a bunch of phones made for old people that are just a phone and do nothing else but calls and texts, and have big clumsy finger buttons. 😉

Though you could just dig out an old Nokia. A 3310 likely still works and bet the battery still has enough charge to last three weeks. Though it does come with Snake so that makes it a bit more than just a phone 😉

this says a lot about your village...and not much else!

How's that then?

First instance wasn't even here, and the second was a car I've never seen around the village before, so I assume it just happened to be driving through.

How does that "say a lot" about where I live? 😐

sounds perfect

Most of the people where CFH lives wouldn't know what a go pro was, unless they were talking golf!! 😀

😀

Sadly, there are a few too many golfists, not quite over run with them though! However, plenty of folks ride, too! (And fish, obviously!)

Ooh, a bit defensive there Flashy?

Factual error accepted. Where is it you live then?

Not defensive, just wondering why you needed to do one of your usual grumpy barbed comments, really. Hence asking how you thought this said a lot about where I live. When you don't know where I live!

Am in North Hampshire. It's rather nice, really.

Anyway, back on track, if you would be so kind....

Evening ride at the Punchbowl and v few people to be seen enjoying the late evening sun, except a drone pilot at the Gibbet.

I think we are done for Cap'n.

True... But getting a fishing permit for tge river is not an option... A lot of it is invite only.

Ton - Lidl were doing a phone that was shock/dust and water-proof for about £35 - looks like an old-style candybar shaped phone, probably did a few things but it wasn't a smartphone so if it did do anything fancy, you had to go looking for it - so call and text were pretty much all it did.

It hasn't even started yet, there's more to come...

All hell's going to break loose once live video streaming apps go mass

[url= http://www.dacast.com/blog/best-live-video-streaming-apps-mobile/ ]Live Video Streaming[/url]

And when camera drones go mass... well that's already begun

In some ways our obsession with tech is bad - witness the beautiful view from the top of Holmbury Hill yesterday and some woman failing to enjoy it, but stood there fiddling with her phone all the time we were there... there goes her chance to send a bit of dopamine flying round her bloodstream...

On the other hand, notice how many people who've been getting away with doing very bad things for decades are getting found out now. It's getting harder and harder to hide things now so many people can capture and broadcast what other people are doing...

I take pics. When I remember the camera.
No video. Ever.

Oh stop being so touchy!

Both incidents were in your locality yes?

See you on a watch/spoon thread soon

i want a phone that just lets you call or text, nothing else at all. are these available?

Yes, plenty - go into a phone shop and ask them, instead of sitting on the internet complaining 🙂

Here you go grandad
http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/src/gbase/coopers-of-stortford-easy-use-mobile-phone-prodst09861i/

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This has got to be a wind-up though??

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Q. "Where will I keep a note of all those passwords"
A. "In a big red book clearly marked [i]Internet Address and Password Logbook[/i]"

There's a bunch of phones made for old people that are just a phone and do nothing else but calls and texts, and have big clumsy finger buttons.

Though you could just dig out an old Nokia. A 3310 likely still works and bet the battery still has enough charge to last three weeks. Though it does come with Snake so that makes it a bit more than just a phone

I've also stopped taking photos of stuff, I know it makes me a grumpy old man but everyone does it so much I'm a bit sick of it!

But where do you write down where you put the book

It all started going wrong with birth videos! And sharing them after dinner....

Gosh, your wife looks very well doesn't she! 😉

I nearly videoed myself projectile vomiting on thursday but I was worried I'd shit myself finding the camera 🙁

[quote=Junkyard ]But where do you write down where you put the book

I'm marketing a fridge magnet for that

I heard that on the internet there are even videos of people making the beast with two backs 😯

[quote=Junkyard ]I am filming myself typing this reply
that pause was me doing the nescafe coffee sign in your general direction

Yeah, I saw that...

I'm just going to keep going for it. No one has to watch them, though I might occasionally to remind myself of what I've done (I've not got a very good memory), I'll just archive them on a HDD somewhere and my children might watch them one day.

We were digging through my grandpa's old videos the other day (He had one of those massive cameras), and were sat watching a video of him painting a wall whilst his camera was set up on a tripod. We watched for quite a few minutes , quite puzzled, until it dawned on us that he'd "Got us" and we'd been sat watching paint dry. Which would only be funny I suppose if you knew his sense of humour. Anyway it made us all larf it did.

It is getting daft. Was at centre parcs recently, and spotted a 3yo in the kiddy pool area wearing a chesty with a go pro blinking away on it... Just plain odd. Who's going to actually watch this stuff?

Depends on the young mothers in the pool(could be a genius move), send a link and I will let you know 😆

Always makes you laugh when you go to a gig or show, and the vast majority of the audience are watching it on the 3" screen of their phone whilst filming it! Considering that these days pretty much all gigs and shows are PROFESSIONALLY recorded, and you can buy the DVD later for about £3, why oh why would you ruin the experience by trying to film it (badly) yourself and miss the gig / show as a result??? 😉

Always makes you laugh when you go to a gig or show, and the vast majority of the audience are watching it on the 3" screen of their phone whilst filming it! Considering that these days pretty much all gigs and shows are PROFESSIONALLY recorded, and you can buy the DVD later for about £3, why oh why would you ruin the experience by trying to film it (badly) yourself and miss the gig / show as a result???

Where can you buy professionally recorded gig DVDs for £3?

But I agree otherwise.

Always makes you laugh when you go to a gig or show, and the vast majority of the audience are watching it on the 3" screen of their phone whilst filming it!

Chipps wrote an intro in the mag quite a few years ago now about actually enjoying the scenery when we're out riding instead of missing the scenery because we're looking at it only through a viewfinder...
Good point that - too busy capturing life for posterity to actually enjoy it in the first place.