Top Gear Season 22 & Xmas Special

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Yes, in Australia.

Sweet!!!!!

Pretty good episode. But like most series. It's the specials I'm interested in mainly.

I actually like the twizy idea, it's just 3X to expensive. It makes no sense at that price, bring it down to £2k and it makes perfect sense. It would be great, I rarely do anything more than 40mile round trip, super easy to park in crowded city. I assume it's the battery pack atm, making them so expensive. Without the hassle of carry safety gear around with a motorbike.
 
Why did all 3 presenters have Chilean flag badges on? Was it as simple as that was the country they all ran to when it kicked off in Argentina on the Christmas special?
 
That was pretty shocking from Hammond, just rode straight into the tram line lol. Those cars/van pulling out were real I'd imagine. He has some balls for riding a bike on the roads over there imo.

Decent ep. :)
 
film in russia more often :D

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Taken from SniffPetrol, made me chuckle.

‘We decided it would be quicker and easier to get the Top Gear thread done before the weekend,’ explained RevWheel moderator, the Reverend Will Moderator. ‘So we asked someone to say they didn’t enjoy the show, and someone else to complain that it’s all “scripted”, and then someone else to moan about the mucking about, and then someone else to say ‘I enjoyed it’ with an emoticon that denotes embarrassment, and then someone else to say they hate it and complain that it isn’t about cars any more, and then someone else to ask why everyone watched it if they don’t like it, and then someone else to agree and point out that it’s an entertainment show not a car show, and then someone else to say it’s time it was cancelled, and then someone else to say it’ll never be cancelled because it makes the BBC too much money, and then someone else to state completely inaccurate facts about how much the show earns, and then someone else to say it’s too “scripted” again, and then someone else to mention William Woollard, and then we just copy and pasted all that over and over and over again until we ended up with 47 pages of repetitive drivel, and that spared us having to do it for real on Sunday night.’
 
It's not the refresh rate of your tv causing it, or the frame rate of the footage, it's the shutter speed of the cameras.

It's actually not that either.

The cameras used nowadays are digital, meaning that they mainly use CCT image sensors to capture the light. The captures the light at a certain refresh rate, or put another way, a certain number of times per second.

The LEDs in cars are also modulated (driven using a PWM signal), and the cause the apparent flickering is due to the two refresh rates concerned (the first of the camera and the second of the LEDs) simply being out of phase.

A good way to see this is next time you're in the OcUK shop, look at their square LED ceiling panels using your camera in your smartphone. You'll see the same phenomenon, although the effect will be slightly different.
 
He only snapped the rear derailleur hanger, which is designed to brake when hit to protect the frame. They cost around £15

Because he was lucky, it probably wasn't worth deliberately flinging a £9k bike into the tarmac in the middle of the road just for lolz - it didn't add £9000 to the show in the way that trashing a Fiesta in the sea or some of the other deliberate stuff they've done did.

The second one might have been staged but who actually cares anyway?
 
It's actually not that either.

The cameras used nowadays are digital, meaning that they mainly use CCT image sensors to capture the light. The captures the light at a certain refresh rate, or put another way, a certain number of times per second.

The LEDs in cars are also modulated (driven using a PWM signal), and the cause the apparent flickering is due to the two refresh rates concerned (the first of the camera and the second of the LEDs) simply being out of phase.


Well, it is. Even though it's not a shutter in the traditional sense, the sensor (CCD, not CCT) just has the time that it's allowed to build a charge varied by the shutter speed setting, which applies to video just as much as it does for still photography.


Which, yes, leads to the effect that you described due to the PWM of LED lights (presumably so you can overdrive them without melting them). If your shutter speed is set faster than this (for a more 'staccato effect' fast motion footage for example) then it'll miss some of the 'flashes' of the LEDs.


But I don't think anyone in this thread cares any more anyway. :D
 
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