Photography Equipment

However, setting traps and fishing are all about patience; those who lack patience are already halfway to defeat. Henry, with many trump cards in hand, has more confidence than others. At worst, he can simply fly to the moon and live in seclusion!

That femme fatale's tactics were simply another version of the same old trick: hiring thugs to harass a beautiful woman, then stepping in to play the hero and taking advantage of her vulnerability. Henry knew it all too well...

It seems like I've just experienced a similar tactic myself?

With Tony Stark's warning from the beginning of the year still ringing in his ears, and himself appearing on many lists, it seems he should take some precautions first.

Lost in thought, Henry asked about something else aloud. "Would it be alright What If...? I closed the clinic?"

Considering he'd be Charlize Theron's agent, Henry couldn't afford to wait for the Black Clinic's call bell to ring every moment, as he had for the past year or so.

If two things conflict, are you supposed to hone your time management skills? The best approach, of course, is to decline the less important one.

Charlie wasn't surprised at all by Henry's question. "This idea of yours didn't just come to you today, did it?"

Henry said irritably, "Come on, I don't believe you don't know that the FBI and the police have been keeping watch outside my clinic for the past six months."

"Luckily, the location you chose for me was easily accessible, so they couldn't completely block it off, which gave me a chance to escape. Even if I moved to a different location, would the situation have improved?"

Charlie smiled, neither confirming nor denying. "If you can solve your own problem, that's certainly best. The hotel's rule is that you can't refuse medical requests that require Gold Coin, but if you can't find anyone, that rule isn't broken, is it?"

Henry understood the implication of those words, but he simply didn't explicitly say he was quitting.

However, considering the previous precedent of helping a city councilor's child with surgery, it's still possible that the Continental Hotel will specifically request services from them.

There are always some VVVIP clients who encounter difficult and complicated illnesses that cannot be treated by ordinary medical means, and they need the help of Tinkerer who has no bottom line.

This kind of cooperation isn't unacceptable; at least it won't take up too much of my time to bandage and treat a bunch of scumbags.

Do you know how many of the people the Tinkerer saved were people he himself couldn't stand? He wanted to give them an overdose of adrenaline, a top-notch medical treatment, the kind that sends them straight to heaven.

Henry finished his double espresso in one gulp, stood up, and prepared to leave. He casually said, "Thanks, Charlie. You know my number What If...? you need to contact me."

The old gunman didn't say anything, he just raised his coffee cup as if to toast a young man who could return to the world of light.

For many, the Continental Hotel is merely a refuge from a place of depravity, and certainly not a good place.

After leaving the Continental Hotel, Henry returned to his original project: the camera that would help Charlize Theron train her acting skills.

He certainly couldn't afford a large film camera. 35mm film is expensive, developing is expensive, and projection equipment is expensive; it's simply not something an average family can afford. And for Henry, there was no need for it.

An 8mm camera is considered home-use, but it's a very early piece of equipment. It also has a number of problems, making it unfriendly to the average user, unless you're a hardcore enthusiast.

The most suitable type of equipment was the Handycam camcorder released by Sony in 1985, commonly known as the V8 camcorder. The "8" here refers to the 8mm wide small magnetic tape, not film. It recorded analog signals.

In 1988, Sony launched the next-generation Hi8 camcorder, which had a higher resolution than its predecessor, the V8. This resolution can be considered the resolution of the digital age.

But why are these devices, including those used in television production, ranked below filmmakers in the hierarchy of taste? The reason lies in the fact that these devices lack far too much detail compared to 35mm film.

As anyone who has seen them knows, early home cameras, even when used in close-up shots of faces, couldn't capture subtle changes in the corners of the eyes and mouth, or at least not clearly. All you'd see was a blurry mess.

By digital-age standards, home appliances and televisions of this period only offered 480p resolution, or even lower, 360p.

Therefore, people who film TV dramas usually need to use exaggerated acting skills to achieve a certain effect. This is what sets them apart from filmmakers, placing them at opposite ends of the social hierarchy.

This level of equipment was certainly not what Henry wanted.

The next generation of digital standards HD Digital VCR Consortium, which comprises Panasonic, Sony, JVC, Philips, Sanyo, Hitachi, Sharp, Thomson, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba.

In April 1994, the specifications for home digital VCRs, also known as DV, were finalized.

Next year, Sony will release a new generation of home DV camcorders. While still using magnetic tape, it will use digital signals instead of analog signals.

Although the image quality of the DV was an improvement over the V8 camcorder, basically on par with the Hi8, Henry couldn't possibly sneak into Sony to steal a demo unit at this point. Besides, even the DV's image quality didn't meet Henry's requirements.

By digital-age resolution standards, DV cameras only achieved 480i resolution. Compared to digital resolution, the quality of 35mm film would need to be at least 4K (UHD) to be considered comparable.

This is why many filmmakers went on to make television dramas in the 2020s.

Besides the significant changes in the film and television landscape, home television sets and camera equipment have become comparable to those used in film, leaving film with only the advantage of a 200-inch screen. This has led many film actors to lower themselves and enter the television market.

Henry's desire to create a digital device comparable to a movie set in one go is somewhat unrealistic. However, it seems possible to create an upgraded device with 720p or 1080p resolution based on the existing digital standards.

It's basically a product for my own amusement. What I really need to consider isn't how high a resolution the codec should be, but rather the capacity of the storage medium.

Twenty minutes of uncompressed UHD video would require 4TB of hard drive space. And hard drives at this time were barely touching GB, still measured in single digits.

Henry, who wanted to skip tapes and use hard drives directly, couldn't possibly develop high-resolution encoding and decoding standards indefinitely. Otherwise, he would have to use an entire disk array to store the data, which would be ridiculous.

Relying on his manual dexterity and the support of his Super Brain, Henry quickly came up with a plan. It wasn't too far ahead of its time, but it was already feasible in his mind.

The main advantage is that many things can be used directly from existing parts, and then modified as needed. This saves a lot of time and effort, allowing you to get the equipment Charlize needs sorted out in a few days instead of waiting a year or two.

The reason for using digital cameras is to instead of using existing equipment.

One major reason is that footage shot with a digital camera can be directly imported into a computer for post-production; all that's needed is the corresponding software. The processing speed depends on the computer's performance.

Older analog film equipment required specialized post-processing equipment. Not to mention that film also needed a developing step.

Numbers are the future trend, Henry can do it, so there's no need for him to go against the grain.