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Hi guys,

Firstly, Sorry for the long post.

The following is something I posted on another forum which I'd really appreciate your help with.

I don't normally start any threads here let alone anything that I'm even mildly passionate about, but tonight our government funded Maori TV did something which has led me to genuinely plead for GPODs help.

At 9pm tonight Maori TV screened a "documentary" called Making A Killing – The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging. After 15mins of watching this "documentary" it was clear beyond all doubt that the film makers had a biased and unbalanced negative approach to the psychiatric profession and medication. It was littered with questionable sources, misleading, emotionally charged and manipulative information to the point where it was so obvious it had an agenda that my girlfriend observed "It almost seems as if this is a Scientology production". I immediately Google'd the film and discovered it was produced by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit organization which was founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology.

As I'm sure most people know the Church of Scientology has had a bizarre agenda to abolish the mental health profession since it's birth in the 1950's. This was clearly illustrated in 1969 when the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH) was the target of a mass infiltration campaign by Scientologists who tried to take over key offices and change the organisation's policy on psychiatry.

This thread is not about Scientology per se, If you are interested in the "Religion" and it's history there is plenty of information on the internet. Rather what this thread is about is Maori TV's irresponsibility for televising this dangerous propaganda. The reason I am so passionate about this is because I have family members and close friends who suffer from mental illnesses and I know first hand (as others in the same situation will) how dangerous films such as this can be to easily influenced people who suffer from mental illnesses. Due to the cruel irony of more serve mental illnesses such as Bi-Polar and Schizophrenia the people who have them don't know they are unwell if they stop taking medication and will often resist medication leading them to be hospitalized or harming themselves. Not once did the film mention the benefits and necessity of medication, instead it instilled a sense of mistrust in the only thing helps many people and offers them hope.

Mental illness directly affects 1 in 5 people in New Zealand and indirectly affects most of us whether we know it or not. Our governmentally funded Maori TV has let us down as a community by televising misleading and erroneous information which by proxy potentially endangers their viewing audience and affects countless friends and family members nation wide.

TLDR:

My plea is this: Please contact Maori TV and Broadcasting Standards Authority and express your concerns and disappointment in the content they televised:

Maori TV
info@maoritelevision.c​om

Broadcasting Standards Authority
http://www.bsa.govt.nz​/complaints-intro.php

If you can't be bothered writing anything or can't think what to write feel free to use the following:

Dear Sir/Maddam

I, <YOURNAME>, feel Maori TV has breached Broadcasting Standards by televising "Making A Killing" at 9pm 4th October 2009. It contained misleading and erroneous information which potentially endangers their viewing audience which can affect countless friends and family members nationwide.

Regards,
<YOURNAME>

I found this quote posted by some random on the internet but it really sums this film up for me:
"This film is an hour and a half of pure and simple lies funded by a religious cult. There are plenty of things about the pharmaceutical industry worthy of criticism but none of them are addressed in this propaganda movie."

Thanks.

Moppie wrote in post #8756156
Sounds like lots of good marketing fluff.
Of course if you have never calibrated your other monitor, then you have no way of knowing.

tonnes, I use a Spyder 2 Express, that was on special at camera whorehouse as they are discontinued.
Works extremely well for what I need.

Moppie, can you share how you managed to caibrate multiple monitors with the spyder 2 express?

tim wrote in post #8756992
You can't shoot mRaw/sRaw if you want to use adobe software, full raw only.

With the 7D currently yeah, although i'm sure they'll release an update very shortly...

5DII files are all fine though in terms of opening in ACR & Lightroom Its just at preference at the moment while we're still shooting with a 40D and a 5DII at a wedding (to shoot in sRaw). Once we get a second 5DII it may be different

Cyborg Death Ninja ...... based on responce not many of us watch Maori TV so we werent endoctranated

Mark Vuleta wrote in post #8756802
No TS, surf shots 600mm 5.6, Blocart 300mm 2.8.

Do you really use the 300 2.8 often enough

scotttnz wrote in post #8758972
Moppie, can you share how you managed to caibrate multiple monitors with the spyder 2 express?

Its, easy. I didn't

I did make it work once, under XP, with an ATi driver, I managed to load one profile with XP and the other with the ATi Driver.
I havn't managed to do the same thing with Vista and an Nvidia card.

weka2000 wrote in post #8759228
Cyborg Death Ninja ...... based on responce not many of us watch Maori TV so we werent endoctranated

I had no idea it was on, not particularly bothered either.
I believe people should be able to make up thier own minds about such things, and view anything with a degree of skeptisism.

Maori TV would have only played it because it didn't cost them anything.

lil_miss wrote in post #8758983
With the 7D currently yeah, although i'm sure they'll release an update very shortly...

5DII files are all fine though in terms of opening in ACR & Lightroom Its just at preference at the moment while we're still shooting with a 40D and a 5DII at a wedding (to shoot in sRaw). Once we get a second 5DII it may be different

I don't think they support cut down raw files on any camera do they? I could use mRaw and DPP but it'd affect my workflow, slow me down too much. I'll just buy bigger memory cards.

Well as far as I know it does I use both sRaw and full size RAW and they both open fine in Camera Raw (bearing in mind its the latest version plus CS4).. Aaron uses the latest Lightroom and it works fine on that too..

They will release a new Camera Raw version to deal with it soon enough they're always updating to keep up with the new cameras released etc.

Oh Tim - how did that wedding for the competition winner go?

Ah cool, mRaw support for the 7D would be handy.

The competition wedding went well, there's a few pics on my Wellington Wedding Photography blog

Good to hear I'm sure they appreciated it very much..

We had a very touching wedding on Saturday amongst the great Auckland weather.. bride's mother is very sick and they dont think she'll live till xmas Needless to say there were a few moments that had my eyes welling up.. and it was just simple things like getting photos of her for & with the family very sad but in the same sense it was hugely rewarding

Moppie wrote in post #8760016
I had no idea it was on, not particularly bothered either.
I believe people should be able to make up thier own minds about such things, and view anything with a degree of skeptisism.

Maori TV would have only played it because it didn't cost them anything.

Ordinarily I would agree with you, however the people who this film targets often do not understand their own illness and are already reluctant to take their meds. A misleading and erroneous "documentary" such as this can't be the catalyst of a devastating event.

A true documentary should be completely unbiased and neutral, and should never require skeptisism. Unfortunately this is not the case (Michael Moore, etc) but does not mean we shouldn't voice of our concern.

In any case, I appreciate your time to consider my points. It is, after all, all I can ask.

Cyborg Death Ninja wrote in post #8761528
In any case, I appreciate your time to consider my points. It is, after all, all I can ask.

No worries, to be honest, had I seen it, I might be more interested.
But, its a bit hard to stand against something with out first experiancing it first hand.
It's possibly a good thing it was only on Maori TV.

Wife didnt get job in Timaru ......

Still going down. May even drive to Greymouth on Friday.

To many doors are shutting I hope Im not destined to stay in Auckland

lil_miss wrote in post #8760206
Well as far as I know it does I use both sRaw and full size RAW and they both open fine in Camera Raw (bearing in mind its the latest version plus CS4).. Aaron uses the latest Lightroom and it works fine on that too..

Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 include rough preliminary support for the Canon 7D, G11 and S90. They are not listed as supported because they are quite far from final quality. We hope to finalize support for those cameras in our next update.
Regards,
Tom Hogarty
Lightroom, Camera Raw, DNG Product Manager
Adobe Systems


At least I can hook straight into shooting RAW with the 7D and at least manage the photos in Lightroom, if not publish them.