pellothed1
Member
I know that this BBC documentary has been discussed, but I thought it might be worth it's own thread to note that Michael David Murphy of http://2point8.whileseated.org/ pointed out that there are currently bitTorrent's for the first parts of Genius of Photography on http://www.mininova.org/. Actually, the first four parts have torrents posted on the website, you can do a simple search for "genius photography" and find them.
For those that don't know what a torrent is, it's basically (from what I understand) a file that points at the actual media files, each person that downloads the media is then added to the torrent, so that when a download is in progress it's divided among users to optimize the download speed. It works, more or less, like the Peer-to-Peer file sharing that was so popular for music at the beginning of this decade. In order to download the media, you have to have a BitTorrent Client (ie, BitTorrent capable browser). Wyzo, http://www.wyzo.com/downloads/, is a free BitTorrent capable browser available on their site in both Mac and PC that is so similar to FireFox it's scary. Once you download Wyzo, you just use it like any other browser, except when you visit a site like mininova, you can download the media files directly to your computer. The files themselves are MPG4, files that will play in QuickTime.
Now, yes, I agree that this is copyright infringement (or not exactly proper), and had BBC made this available in the U.S., I wouldn't be advocating this type of downloading, and would be more than happy to buy the series if it was available on DVD in the proper region coding, but it's not, that I'm aware of. So, I'm having some trouble justifying to myself downloading the series. It's up to you guys to do with what you want. I haven't watched any of the series yet, so I don't know if the quality or what not is very good, on that I can't comment. I just thought I might make it known that it's available if anyone wants to take advantage.
For those that don't know what a torrent is, it's basically (from what I understand) a file that points at the actual media files, each person that downloads the media is then added to the torrent, so that when a download is in progress it's divided among users to optimize the download speed. It works, more or less, like the Peer-to-Peer file sharing that was so popular for music at the beginning of this decade. In order to download the media, you have to have a BitTorrent Client (ie, BitTorrent capable browser). Wyzo, http://www.wyzo.com/downloads/, is a free BitTorrent capable browser available on their site in both Mac and PC that is so similar to FireFox it's scary. Once you download Wyzo, you just use it like any other browser, except when you visit a site like mininova, you can download the media files directly to your computer. The files themselves are MPG4, files that will play in QuickTime.
Now, yes, I agree that this is copyright infringement (or not exactly proper), and had BBC made this available in the U.S., I wouldn't be advocating this type of downloading, and would be more than happy to buy the series if it was available on DVD in the proper region coding, but it's not, that I'm aware of. So, I'm having some trouble justifying to myself downloading the series. It's up to you guys to do with what you want. I haven't watched any of the series yet, so I don't know if the quality or what not is very good, on that I can't comment. I just thought I might make it known that it's available if anyone wants to take advantage.
nksyoon
Well-known
It's currently being aired in the UK...it should be released on DVD eventually...and broadcast in the US as well.
Paul T.
Veteran
There was also a wonderful pgroamme on James Ravilious last night:
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00NJxi
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00NJxi
Sparrow
Veteran
Paul T. said:
Yes, excellent, and almost as beautifully filmed as the photos
OurManInTangier
An Undesirable
I actually enjoyed the piece on James Ravilious more...and I make sure I never miss the 'Genius Of..' programme.
I was unaware of his work until someone posted that he was being profiled after this weeks main programme. Its not really my kind of style (if I even have one) but his images are stunningly beautiful....and I now want some uncoated lenses to help get that look.
I was unaware of his work until someone posted that he was being profiled after this weeks main programme. Its not really my kind of style (if I even have one) but his images are stunningly beautiful....and I now want some uncoated lenses to help get that look.
Terao
Kiloran
The quality of both the series and the transfers is very high. Episode 4 covered Frank & Winogrand amongst others so pretty much essential viewing for RFFers. I'm guessing that it will turn up on BBC Worldwide or Discovery in due course but its well worth seeking out now. Out of the four episodes I found last night's most interesting, happened to be at my folks and it was interesting to sit and talk to them about street photography whilst watching guys like Mayerwitz demonstrate their techniques...