June 2021 Patreon Exclusive VIDEO Oddcast
It’s time for another one-sided conversation from a nutter in an untidy bedroom.
As usual there’s an audio version of this in a separate post for the three people who prefer things heard and not seen.
00:00 Start
00:15 Family matters
08:40 Mobile video-making kit
20:35 Comments on comments
45:09 iMac’s missing function
49:48 Throwing good money after bad
54:38 Charles Wright’s TC8 mystery
1:00:21 The End
UPDATE re the random spam 'word salad' comments - their purpose has been determined.
It looks like the mystery has been solved - matsimpsk linked to a video about spamming and it seems that the spammers post these random comments in an attempt to appear as real legit commenters in the eyes of the YouTube spam detectors, so that they can then go on to post spam scam links elsewhere on YouTube without getting auto-detected as quickly.
If a new account gets created and the first thing it posts is a dodgy link to a crypto pyramid scheme - it'd get auto-spotted and kicked off straight away. However if that's just one of thousands of comments posted by that account over a longer period of time then it'll likely fly under the radar. So if you see these - report them, flag them or delete them if possible - to help prevent scams.
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I saw this in the news and it reminded me about your Apple Fitness issue. Apparently Apple's "solution" is to use AirPlay to stream the fitness content to the Mac in the next version of the macOS. Of course this requires an iPhone or iPad. Article: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/16/apple-fitness-plus-will-work-with-airplay-to-mac/ So I suppose when the next macOS launches, there will at least be a work-around? Although I fully agree that they should revive the Front Row app / experience and give you you large-UI and remote control tailored apps on the Mac... just like on the Apple TV. These products are all using the same chipset, and they always considered the Apple TV a "hobby" product, so I doubt there is any concern of cannibalizing Apple TV sales if they had the functionality on the Mac. But sadly I don't know if Apple sees this as an issue that needs fixing.
I noticed that in the announcement too - I hope it’s just a matter of time too until there’s some kind of native Mac experience. There’s little point in turning on and unlocking two devices and airplaying from the first to the second, rather than just using the first one on its own.
I hate the flixzone bot comments (convos like the crypo bots described) on my videos. Bot ads are a real problem.
As a Joon I appreciated the “how’s it going” 😆
Sorry to hear about your parents Mat. Have to agree about the realist thing - my family are much the same.
I only wish they’d have sorted things out a bit sooner. It’s much more difficult to try and get them organised in the state they are now. Just to let you know the next video will be delayed as a result of all this stuff going on.
Sorry I'm just getting around to watching this, but with regard to the crypto-related comments, the YouTuber Atomic Shrimp did a bit of a deep dive into them recently. They are of course scams, but it seems like they may be run by some third-party service that is separate from the scammers themselves. Anyway, it's an entertaining video since he attempts to engage with the scammers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYiTE7bx7qg
“Techmoan reading comments, so you don’t have to!” 😄
Hi Mat! Not sure if someone else has mentioned this yet, but Apple announced in their WWDC event that in the next MacOS (Monterey), you can AirPlay to the Mac. So, you’ll be able to cast Netflix/Disney/etc from your phone to the Mac and control it with your phone. Hope this helps!
Thanks, I saw that and yes it’s a reasonable compromise - hopefully they’ll move things further in the TV App compatible direction in the future.
Thanks to your channel I appreciated again and dusted off my Sony HCD-SD1 mini HiFi and D-EJ 855 CD Walkman. CDs are back in action and sound great!
I want to feature CDs more in the future. I’ve a couple of lovely old CD players I’d like to show.
Matt, Thanks for the video. I would like to suggest if the audio is low you could use a program called Audacity. It can adjust the volume and perhaps a limiter. It can open some video files and it sees just the audio. I do it often when I make videos of my Technics turntable. If you use Windows (I know you have a Mac) there is a program Levelator that works with WAV files to fix the volume. I run it in a virtual machine.It may be a faff, I do it for my DJ set podcast files. I hope your parents are happy. Best wishes from the definitely going blind diabetic in France.
I use audacity a lot for exactly that - you’ll here it mentioned in this video in the section about the 8-track. However for sync-sound video audio level editing, I just increase it in the editing program.
About the random bots comments I've found this on Reddit: "There are people who control a massive number of fake bot youtube accounts. You can pay them to buy views for your videos or to subscribe to your account, like your videos, etc. YouTube is always fighting these guys to try and keep the system honest. YouTube found that accounts that never comment and just like 1000's of videos are probably bot accounts so they knock them out. To get around that the bot army owners then programmed their fake accounts to leave comments so they look more like real accounts when just looking at their activity. So those comments are collateral damage from YouTube's war on bots." Maybe it's true, maybe no but I think it makes sense
I can respect being a realist, it does make a lot of folks really uncomfortable, but in tough situations it can be an asset. Keep your chin up mate, lots to look forward to summer is here, and we’re on the back side of this pandemic. I know there’s not much I can do from the states man and it’s a personal journey your going through but I’ll be sure to share your videos like a madman, the cassettes better than you don’t remember always seems to get folks hooked
Anyone up for registering "www.thisisaloadofcrap.com" and "imagullablefool.com"?
The second of those (imagulliblefool dot com) is registered.
Bring on the grilled cheese videos and take care of you and yours.
Hi Mat. Great video as always. I don’t suppose you’re able to share the Charles Wright audio? Just my cup of tea! And it’s not as if it’s depriving anyone of a sale. Cheers.
I have to be so careful with this stuff. It seems now there's large departments at each record label attempting to reclaim every penny possible by whatever means possible. So I've got to steer clear of any potential problems. But if it helps I can confirm that it's quite possibly worse than every other funk record in your collection.
Thanks for this wonderful video. The comments about comments section made my day. Your facial reaction to some of the most inane comments / questions really tells the story. All the best
Had to laugh at your health comments. Kind of in a same boat... I'm just glad that someone else has noticed it. At this point, things not getting much worse within a year counts as a win.
This was my first Oddcast and I loved it -- especially the comments review. My elderly mother had surgery recently and in the run-up and afterwards, her dementia and short-term memory loss got really bad, really quickly. About a month and a half post-surgery, though, she seems to be getting better mentally, so hopefully the same is true for your mom and it's just a temporary, stress-related thing.
I hope so too. Thanks for the positivity.
That was a very entertaining oddcast. especially the comments section. "You disgusting morbid person", LMAO. Looking forward to next months one.
As for the story of the Charles Wright’s TC8, honestly, I think you should make it a cheese sandwich video. The fact that it was only ever released on 8 track and the process you did to transfer it was surprisingly interesting. And you have most of the footage and maybe some commentary as well as a little history of the album and you have content for the hungry masses. ;D Maybe not talk about how the person has dropped off the internet, unless of course he/she finally gets back to you. But I found the story really compelling!
I do have some 8-track video ideas floating about, so my half-plan is to somehow include it in with one of those.
These oddcasts are worth every penny of the patreon donation. I have to say that as a gay guy i'm expected to know all of the other gay guys, so i can totally relate to you knowing everyone in the UK. i miss my rolodex! Keep up the good work Mat!
I use ad-block (have I spoiled the secret now? /sarcasm) but when I discover a Youtube I enjoy/think is quality I sign up to their Patreon/Kofi. I know in the end I am paying much more than YouTube Premium but I'd rather pay creators directly (as possible) and reap some rewards - such as Oddcasts etc!
That’s the best way to do things.
Great video Mat, having parents aged 86 and 87 your experience struck a chord. And like you say its important to keep sane, I'm told it's that art of 'pottering around' but that brings up images of very old people in greenhouses to me....
Hope your month picks up, Mat. Great to hear your update.
Hahaha, “The app went kaput…” Love the chaos in this video.
I can appreciate that kind of pragmatism when it comes to literal life and death. So at the risk of being too upbeat I’ll say, I hope you and your family find the strength to soldier on and find comfort in whatever will (eventually) come your way. In the meantime, thank you for the hour of entertainment.
It's hard. I did the same thing with my parents, my mother passed at 83 years, my father at 93 years. Always something coming up when going to the doctors. My sister and I took care of them at their house. I know one thing for sure - they were both so grateful that we were there to help them that after they were gone, I knew it was better than if we had tried to get them in a nursing home, and we were at their side when they passed. Modern medicine is great, so like you said, you don't see people dying at a younger age like back in the day. But the older you get, the more things that go wrong, and sooner or later, there is no fixing things.
Just to add to the statistics: I like the commenting on comments section.
I've been a patron for a few months now and this was my favorite Oddcast yet. I absolutely love the comment commentary segment, and since it's Patreon exclusive, you won't have to worry about people commenting intentionally stupid things just to get on the show :) The bit at 15:30 intrigued me. If memory serves, you've mentioned in past videos that your hearing is somewhat limited to one ear, so when you wear earbuds (whether they be Sonys or AirPods), do you even bother putting both in? or do you save the battery and only use one?
You’re right that this could only work on Patreon otherwise you’d get people trying to play to the crowd. As far as the hearing goes - one ear is generally a few % down on the other - but sometimes on a good day they end up in a pretty similar place. It’s all a bit seasonal. I do tend to use both earphones but more often than not I’m using the Aeropex to listen out for other things around the house at the same time and they seem to work better for me.
The writer Mark Evanier says he'd like to start a service for old celebrities. They'd pay him a fee every month, and when they get to the age where they start embarasing themselves, he'd call them and tell them it's time to retire
A very sensible idea, he’d need to deactivate their Twitter accounts too. Two actors who bowed out gracefully were Sean Connery and Gene Hackman. Whilst as a viewer I’d gladly (selfishly) have wanted to see them in more films, I do feel they did the right thing to preserve their legacies.
Those "weird" comments where random words are mashed together so they almost make sense look a lot like some programmer experimenting with an AI. The most obvious case of those are often bots that are just copying other comments or slightly modifying them. So this might be the next step? YouTube would be a pretty good platform to analyze the responses of your AI and improve it - you're probably doing well at impersonating a human when a lot of people click the like button or interact with your post. Of course that's just a guess, but we'll never find out the real reason, are we? ;) I mean, we can't just ask those bots. :P Here is someone using the GPT-2 AI to write a YouTube comment bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mUnEywtdZY
It looks like the mystery has been solved - matsimpsk above linked to a video about spamming and it seems that the spammers post these random comments in an attempt to appear as real legit commenters in the eyes of the YouTube spam detectors, so that they can then go on to post spam elsewhere on YouTube without getting auto-detected as quickly. So if a new account gets created and the first thing it posts is a dodgy link to a crypto pyramid scheme - it'd get kicked off straight away. However if that's just one of thousands of comments posted by that account over a long period of time then it'll likely fly under the radar.
Good and interesting content (even being your own worst critic :) ) I understand and am going through the same things. Doesn’t make it easier, but best of luck and thank you for sharing.
RE: Keeping up with The Charts I was so obsessive about music in my 20s that I actually SUBSCRIBED to Billboard magazine. I would go through the Hot 100 and highlight songs I liked. I could usually count on locating at least 30 tunes that worked for me. And the Top 200 Albums charts were an even better average. But I literally don't recognize a single tune in the Top 40 nowadays. I may recognize the name (or names.... "Shut yo Face" by Kim'$ Momz, featuring Lil' Meow-Meow, w/special guest Scooby Glue) but that's more to do with the nature of pop celebrity. One is hard pressed to find rock of any sort, and surely nothing remotely avant-garde. But there was a long rubbish wave in pop music after WW2, and things didn't pick up until the late 50s, and perhaps we will see (and hear) a resurgence in quality one more time before the junior elderlies like us shake off This Mortal Coil (an avant-garde act that managed to make the charts in the 90s!)
I listened to the chart show a few weeks ago. I'd hardly heard of any artist, but recognised a sample of an early tune and a cover that was nowhere near as good as the original. The current fashion is for whiney singing and never hitting a note without sliding into it. It's like they start a little flat and slide up until they hit the note they're after. Maybe they have a little light that comes on when they get the note right. Only the cover got only my YouTube Music thumbs-up list. Sad, I'd like some new music.
RE: what killed mass audiophilia (i.e. why most people won't bother with hi-fi anymore) I attended audio engineering school in 1991 and one of the projects was to make a mix of a song that sounded acceptable in a car. As it turns out, automobiles are just about the worst acoustic environments possible. It is essentially impossible to "tune" the interior of a car. Thus, a studio mix that sounded amazing through a home system has to be "dumbed-down" for playback in car interiors. But since the advent of car stereos - from basic AM radio through to the 8-track and compact cassette era, and on through to satellite radio and bluetooth - the public have generally become accustomed to bad fidelity. Whether or not this accounts for the poor quality of contemporary music is debatable, but the sound quality is essentially the equivalent of processed cheese.
I rarely listen to music in the car - I just find it really irritating. Over the years I thought that perhaps it was down to the crappy speakers, but then in a few recent cars I ended up with a model that had an upgraded sound system and I’ve still never played it for more than a couple of minutes. It just feels like there’s enough going on already when I’m driving to not want to add more to it.
RE: comments "Find Jesus! He'll show you the way!" Bosh 3:16 "Have you heard about TatCoin? Its the bestest cyrpto!" www.bitofoldarse.com It's lazy evangelism at this finest.
These always cheer me up, even the disgustingly morbid and realist stuff always gives me a chuckle.....the dick cock fanny pie chart really should have been an overlay :)
Sorry to hear about your mum - hope things get better soon. Atomic shrimp has just done a video that explains the gibberish comments - they’re bots trying to hide spam comments. If they put a load of nonsense comments up, it helps to hide their actual spam comments from Google’s bots. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EYiTE7bx7qg
I preferred the story of it being the modern-day replacement for Numbers Stations sending coded messages to covert operatives via shortwave radio ...
When my father was hospitalized at the age of 60, he got hospital induced delirium from being sedated with Ativan. It was really jarring and I was very thankful it was temporary, but for a lot of people the delirium becomes a permanent dementia.
Yes, with the sedation mania ruling in the modern medical practice you have to be extra careful with the elderly. Peter Falk's mind was ruined by the dentists using sedation or even just lots of analgesic.
Sorry to hear about your family difficulties. I hope they’ll soon get sorted and you’ll be back on track. It horrifies me to say that I must be your age! I remember Tommy Cooper dying live on stage when I was a kid. That was a shock. Don’t overdo it. Keep safe.
More moan than tech but I'll allow it.
You’d have trouble finding any moaning in this one - it’s irrationally upbeat to the point of being ludicrous in the face of adversity.
OMG the comments. Thanks for the bit about YT Premium - I wondered about that. Seems like now that the goog has sucked up all online advertising that it doesn't pay them like it used to and they have to run so many ads to make the same revenue that it's depressing views. Or something. The ultimate goal of ALL businesses is to have people send them cash directly while giving nothing back, so this fits. :-) The Duga radar was covered in another comment but on the radio topic ... Consensus on "Numbers stations" is that they really are instructions to operatives in foreign lands. They copy the numbers and look them up on a code sheet (you can find samples online taken from actual spies) to receive the intended message. Many are still on the air. Your supposition that these "random" YouTube comments serve the same function is interesting. Might even be true! As the author of a column on numbers stations and other oddities on shortwave likes to say "As usual, the people that know aren't saying." :-)
Oh I don’t think the weird comments are coded spy messages - otherwise when I delete them it could mean that I’ve stopped a nuke. No it’s more that they’re similar in being one of those mysteries that are out there for all to see, yet different people have different theories as to their exact purpose, but few people have hard facts.
Mat! Thank you so much for clearing up the premium thing. I've been anxious about that for so long, because I always love to support the channels I watch and always thought premium actually negatively affected your ad rev. Its nice to know it doesnt and I wish Youtube would actually be more transparent in regards to this as I feel more people would be on board with it! I have to say though, locking the ability to keep listening whilst the phone screen is off behind a paywall is still the scummiest thing they ever did. Anyway, good luck with your parents and I hope you have AC.
They really were grasping at straws with that feature. Getting rid of all the crappy cheap adverts is really the only true benefit...but it's difficult to promote this without annoying the advertisers and/or pushing the audience towards using ad-blocker instead.
Hi - I may be mistaken but it was my impression from the announcements that the M1 Apple machines were able to run iOS apps.
In theory they should be able to - however when you go into the Apple App Store on a M1 Mac and select 'iPhone & iPad Apps' at the top of the page - the selection is extremely limited and missing every single one of the apps that I need (including but not limited to Apple Fitness, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus).
Enjoyed this one. Had me laughing lots, particularly the comments section. And surely a mecha error is a giant Japanese robot error?!
“Oh no, my Gundam is broke. I can’t listen to anymore minidiscs.” OR “There’s a missile jammed in my MadCat so I can’t play any CDs”
The Russian Woodpecker made fun radio sounds which was radar, or at least that was my understanding.
Consensus seems to be that the "Russian Woodpecker" was an over the horizon ("OTH") radar that operated throughout the HF spectrum. And it's likely, I guess, that it used the HUGE antenna array near Chernobyl (google "duga radar"). Made a mess of CB in the 1970s as it worked it's way up and down as well as several amateur radio allocations. I was not a shortwave listener at the time (because I didn't get my 1978 Realistic DX-160 until ... 2020 ...) so I don't know if they "notched out" the shortwave broadcast bands.
Great catch-up as always. I wonder if we're the first generation that has had to face the prospect of looking after our elderly parents when we're old ourselves. Apropos of nothing, I came across a minor curiosity the other day that might interest you. I bought a second-hand vinyl album that had been released in the late 1960s in the US on Columbia records. On the inner sleeve were printed 8 reasons why 'Records Give You More of What You Want', including 'Records give you top quality for less money than other recorded forms', ' They allow selectivity of songs and tracks [..] All you have to do is lift the tone arm and place it where you want - you can't do this as easily with anything but a phonograph record' , 'They're the Proven Medium' - and so on. I am trying to imagine with what other form of pre-recorded music they thought they were competing - surely Compact Cassettes weren't much of a thing for pre-recorded music back in 1968. 8 Track? Reel to Reel? Were Columbia notably resistant to issuing albums on any form of tape? Maybe Columbia's records division felt in competition with their tapes division? Anyhow, promoting vinyl albums on the inner sleeve of a vinyl album struck me as strange. Have a great June, Mat!
That's a fun one and it's got to be referring to the lack of ability to select a specific song on 8-Track and 4-Track aka Muntz Stereo-Pak (one that I'm going to get around to covering soon-ish). Yes it does sound like Columbia must have been anti-tape for a while. The music labels seem to have been terrified of every new format that came along after the Cylinder. Very interesting.
Warning to anyone with an iPhone/iPad signing up to YouTube Premium:- Don't signup in the YouTube app because you will pay £15.99/month. If you signup on the YouTube website in a browser like Safari or Chrome it's only £11.99/month. This is because Apple take a 30% commission on in-app purchases.
Good tip. I’ve never used the iPhone or iPad youtube apps, I always went through the browser. I struggled to get the apps to do what I wanted. I should try them again now.
How to mirror your iPhone (or iPad) screen to a Mac computer with QuickTime or AirPlay:- https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-mirror-iphone-to-mac
There’s no benefit in that for her right now…she might as well just carry on using the iPad for Fitness for the time being. But thanks for the suggestion.
Scrub that - I’ll not be lazy and look it up on line. Hope this isn’t a stupid question, but how do you set up the homepods with apple tv? I’ve been trying to find a decent sounding solution for a second tv that has minimum wires, good connectivity and good sound which includes bass. Ended up with NOS Roth Neo 6.2. It’s good except the bass is tad thin.
In theory it’s just a matter of making sure the Homepods are running the latest firmware and then in the ‘Home’ app on your phone they need to be shown in the same ‘room’ (group) as one another and the Apple TV. Then you link the speakers together in the app as a stereo pair and on the Apple TV select them as the audio output device. In reality there’s a lot of rebooting and swearing, but eventually you’ll get there.
All round good catch-up Mat - liked it all. Found myself nodding and smiling and I understand where you are coming from. Hope you and the family manage to sort the help they need.
Certainly cheaper than a Dyson. But just as quite.
May I ask about the small fan slightly behind you? It was very quiet and I am in need of a very quiet small fan. I appreciate it.
It's one of these https://amzn.to/3yV9KkK (Auto-affiliated link). There are quite a few alternatives though - it seems the trick is to look for 'air circulator' - however I can confirm that this one works well and is almost silent.
UTIs (Urinary Tract Infections) can absolutely badly affect older people mentally. It happened to my Mother-in-law. Hope your Mum and Dad get some professional help soon. More cheerfully, here's a question. If we Patrons subscribe to the YouTube paid service, and we watch your videos in the Patrons previews you send us and do NOT watch them when they come out publicly, how does that affect your revenue? I.e., do you still make money if we watch only the Patrons previews whilst subscribing to YouTube? Thanks for your usual brilliant update. (Personally, I enjoy the comments and no, I have no idea what is gained by bot-generated comments!) :-)
As far as I can tell, any view of a monitised video whether via an embed or directly on YouTube itself will generate income for a YouTube creator. Truthfully though the patron views don't tend to generate significant revenue on YouTube. For example the Sony videophones have been on there for almost a week now and have generated £6.07. However the direct monthly contributions from the patrons go far beyond that - so really I'm happy for patrons to watch a video however they like, with ad-block turned on if it helps, because the YouTube Adsense revenue generated is negligible either way.
I’ve dealt with old folks, and the weirdness of UTI’s (including trying to rescue a relative who’d broken down on the A1 “somewhere near Bedford”, who was found asleep in his car by Police near Scotch Corner) it’s hard, but I look at it as payback for the hassle I caused as a teenager.
You've got to laugh - at least you get some odd stories out of it I suppose. For those unfamiliar with the UK - there's about 200 miles between those locations.
About life expectancy versus quality of life I'm the same: my dearly missed granddad sat drooling in a wheelchair for more than five years after his second stroke unable to speak and having to be spoon-fed. He quite obviously hated it and wanted to die, he also wrote as much on his little typing thing with an almost unreadable LCD (1980s tech in the 1990s) several times. No, it did not save anything you typed. I don't want that to happen to anyone (with the exception of certain politicians) - least of all me!
Same with YouTube Premium, just signed up. I was getting fed up with the volume of ads in videos, so finally buckled. Glad it has a positive impact for you and other creators too!
Just to give you an idea, 20% of my May Youtube income came from Youtube Premium. I have no idea what percent of youtube viewers have signed up to Premium, but I’d have to guess that it’s a single digit %…probably less than 5.
The non-response to the 8-track really did make me chuckle ... maybe after 30 years hunting, if the album is a bit dodgy, he's still recovering from the disappointment! haha
I didn’t think of that possibility. I just posted it back to the chap in Germany today - cost me £10, so I hope he’s still there.
I really like part of the video discussing youtube comments. I am a Brit but have lived abroad for 20 years and really miss this British sense of humour. I have had to learn that sarcasm and dry wit do not travel and are lost on most people even if they understand the english language well.
Yes it’s an odd one. It’s like living in a country where a slap in the face is considered a warm greeting but then finding out the hard way that it’s not treated the same abroad.
Hi Matt, i've bumped my membership up a tier. Hope you stay strong and take care of yourself and family first, money can always come later.
It’s all a careful balancing act - family come first, but without money it’s hard to do everything you’d like for them. Then again I’m doing fine, so please don’t up your contribution on my account…I’ll be ok.
Regarding the Apple Apps and the Mac, in a previous keynote apple thing they did say they are working on bringing native iPad apps to the iMac, so Mrs Moan will be able to do her jumpy things. (They didn't mention her by name obviously). Saying that these tech companies say things like this a lot and how well it's going and then you wait 6 years... But they DID say it is one of their goals at least. As ever this video was like inviting you to the house and having you just chat away for an hour. Just out of curiosity, do your parents ever watch the videos? Agree with your sentiments at the start of the video about there being no way to gracefully bow out as you get older, sad fact of life I guess and luck of the draw on how it pans out.
The current lack of internet at their house is a barrier to entry. They’re also not Patrons. A few years ago my father did watch some of them, but I think they mostly flew over his head.
Hi Matt. I think you have a refreshingly realistic view on getting old and caring for older parents. It is so important to talk about things. Fortunately my late father passed away quickly at 91 after a fall, in full control of everything and we had so many years of brilliant conversations. Covid would have been a nightmare for everyone. I am curious what microphone you used for the sea cliff shots. Lavelier? But how did you connect it to the camera or is it synced to the phone? I am looking to advise a colleague who wants to do some run and gun selfie style visits to factories, wireless lavelier would seem to be the way to go. Thanks for all your fantastic stories.
It’s shown later in the video…it’s a Bluetooth mic that comes with the ‘Creator Kit’ for the camera. There are quite a few Bluetooth mics that will do the same job with more cameras…I think R0DE do a popular one - similar to the Sony one I demoed recently.
You use Sony rx10 mk3. I have just purchased the rx10 mk4. Very good camera
I’m missing the very close focussing capabilities of the RX10iii - the ZV-1 only focuses perhaps 10cm further away from things as a minimum.
Best wishes for you and the family. <3 Been there with my mum last year as she passed away just as the Pandemic started (from a long term illness, not Covid-19) and my dad's getting worse too this year. 2020 and 2021 don't aim to be the greatest of years it seems... :/
It’s a shame but also inevitable for everyone unfortunately. It doesn’t make it any easier though.
My mother is 84 and has lost her get up and go. For years she would be playing her PlayStation but now just complaining about repeats on TV and nothing to do.
There seems to be a point for many people where this happens. It’s unfortunate because it can taint the good memories of better times.
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