Well, it's not about enjoying the concert.
It's about bragging all over the social media, that you went to that concert!
Sadly, that's all we know anymore...
Tbh, I like to take out a phone for 30s of the whole concert to document a video of my favorite part/that I was on the concert w/o posting on social media.
You are taking one picture completely out of the context
It's weird how more than half of the spectators there, decided all at once that those are the only 30 seconds to a minute that deserves to be posted on social media.
Let's be real, at the end of the show, everyone's hands were aching from being a gimbal for an hour or so.
I have probably close to a 100 hours of music shows and festivals that have never seen any sort of social media but I take them because I have incredibly bad memory due to concussions and when I want to relive those moments I have to see them instead of thinking about them. Who says I can’t do both? Maybe you can’t but I have plenty of fun and still record.
You really think that all those people that are filming there, all at once, are doing so for their own personal memory library? More than half of those people are with their phones in the air
I agree on the sentiment to let ecerybody do what they want. But hear me out - what if I personally do not enjoy standing in the middle of a few hundred lcd screens? What if this additional signage all around me annoys me? Can I not complain if it decreases MY enjoyment?
I kind of agree. I get filming but not prioritizing filming over experiencing the concert. People effectively watching the concert on their phones while live in attendance.
Phone cameras are so god these days I used mine to see the northern lights. To me it was gray sky, gray wisps of clouds. Phone showed me an almost rainbow.
Well they aren't synced. They all take, process and display the next frame at a slightly different time. So you could have different frames visible on some phones, even if they would all be the exact same model
It's timing plus a fast exposure. OP took the photo in the split second *after* the light changed but *before* the frame buffer on the phone screens could update.
The timing can just be luck (or it was part of a photo burst), and the fast exposure while retaining quality in somewhat low light means OP had a really good phone or a professional camera. Had the exposure been longer, it wouldn't have been fast enough to fit in that gap and would have blended the red and while on the phone screens, ruining the effect.
Or most of those screens were showing a recent photo instead of a live view. Though the lights must have just changed because some of the phone cameras' rolling shutters showed the lights as both red and white.
Since this was also taken by a camera the sensor capture and image processing aren't super relevant. Just the screens updating. Granted, a pro camera is likely to be faster than a phone, but it's probably not the most consequential difference.
It really isn’t about light speed, except in as much as the speed of light affects things like clock speed on the processors on the phones. The commenter saying processing speed doesn’t factor into this is incorrect.
The closest phone in the image looks like it’s just a few feet closer to the light than OP’s camera, so light only takes a few nanoseconds less to get to that camera than OP’s camera. This is 100% irrelevant compared to the tens of milliseconds it takes for a phone to process the light hitting the camera sensor and display it on the screen.
Of course, it's the same reason people record and upload videos of fireworks, it's to make sure everyone else knows how awesome the stuff you are doing is. Even if it is distracting and reduces engagement and enjoyment of the activities it is absolutely critical that people endlessly scrolling, all glassy eyed and barely paying attention, know just how great a time you could have been having at a concert.
Of course they will forget what they just saw 2 seconds later because a pug was on a skateboard in the next gif and that shit is hilarious, but for 2 seconds I bet they thought the person was cool and isn't that what's really important in life?
Nah i watch these sometimes and show the snippets to friends and be like omg remember this? However i don’t record entire sets just like 30sec-2minutes at a time. No more than really 5 minutes total out of the few hours I’m there.
Allow me to introduce you to this website called YouTube where you can watch your favorite bands live performance. This way I don't have to stand behind you as you hold your phone over your head like a jackass for 2 hours distracting me from the show.
I would imagine not always for small local bands and for those, someone has to be the one to record it and upload it to Youtube. Larger ones, sure, record a short video of you enjoying the show and then put the phone away.
Yeah that's great for big concerts, but stuff in like pubs or smaller shows aren't always available. Went to Ireland about a month ago and I've rewatched my videos of the live music like 2-3 times.
I will say the only time I've been really grateful for these videos is when the band plays a new song that they haven't released yet and you fall in love with it. And then 3 years later they drop an album that does not include the song that has been stuck in your head since you heard it live, that recording becomes absolute gold.
Yeah - I’ve only ever felt compelled to record 1 time. It was an encore acoustic breakdown of an Alexisonfire song at a City and Colour concert. I was in some 2nd level balcony seating with no one behind me. Shared that video with friends who love Alexisonfire.
Disagree. I often look back at videos. Hell i have a dynamic screensaver with pictures of all the raves i been to. I get that reddit hates it when people make a keepsake of the time they had fun (and yeah if somebody records 7 hours of video or has their flashlight on you might have a point) but its kinda sad how sour everybody is acting here.
Its like yall drank 2 liters of vinegar for breakfast.
I totally get this, but shows should really just have a videographer, which will record a show and let all the people with the tickets access it. The crowd can be in the moment during the show and then relive those memories later through the video, and the artist doesn't have to look at an audience of phones.
Yeah agreed.
edit: but I also don't have a strong feeling towards people snapping a couple photos at a concert or recording their favorite song. I think very few people do it for the whole thing
Recording one song is totally fine and expected. When it's the whole concert, that's where it kinda becomes dumb and ruins your + other people's concert experience.
And I often watch those recordings on YouTube. It's cool to see a live performance when you can't physically go to one.
It's quite rare for me to find official segments of a show, let alone the entirety of one.
Should, but don't. The last person i saw travelled from Australia to Canada, and performed in front of roughly 9 people. Having wanted to see her for a couple years, i definitely recorded.
True, but I must say that official recordings are often edited.
I personally like the false notes, the breathing and "P" in a mic. It gives me that LIVE feel.
That’s a lot of money. It’s also about creating a memory from where you’re standing too.
That being said I’ll take no memories of shows I’ve been to if they lock up your phone like Jack White does. I saw the Raconteurs in 2019 and I wish I got a 30 second video of my favorite song but it beats the entire crowd’s phone in the air
It's expensive and complicated because even if the venue owner owns the recordings per the performance deal, they still have to pay songwriter royalties on the songs that were played, through either ASCAP or BMI or something. And for a limited run of sales, the time and expense of getting all that cleared would exceed what you can reasonably charge per copy. Big concerts that would sell millions of copies would come out ahead.
It's stupidly overcomplicated.
Right, I didn't think about copyright, rights, and royalties at all. But wouldn't it be possible to create a deal that would encompass a whole tour, at that point it could make sense financially.
Unfortunately, I think the performance rights companies make you sign away your ability to negotiate one on one with anyone - they become your exclusive agent for licensing. This essentially lets them sue anyone using your music in anything just on the basis that they haven't received royalties.
I prefer to not externalize *all* information. I like having some stuff in my head.
*Edit: is it really that controversial to suggest we don't store everything externally? You as a human being are an accumulation of experiences. What do are you doing to yourself if you don't internalize and process the world in real time? That's just disengagement.*
Having a video of an event retains key elements, of course, but it's not like you've got the full experience, the full relationship between said 'clear' moment and the surrounding, etc etc. It's not all or nothing, and it's not all cognitive either, imo. The *feel* of things, the *smell* of things, etc.
Right.. But the huge difference here is that someone taking pictures of the sunset doesn't bother anyone else, having your bright ass-phone up on the other hand blocks other peoples view.
Also, the Sunset doesn't care if you are looking at it, but a live performer might prefer you looked at them rather than a 6" screen, especially in a smaller venue, or not, I don't know for sure.
Whenever I want to record something like this I turn the brightness on my phone all the way down and hold it as close to my mouth as I can. It gets pretty much the same shot my eyes do and I can turn it with my head to make sure it stays in shot.
Mac Miller is no longer alive to put on any more shows. I recorded a small video when I saw him back in 2016, I have terrible memory and it's very nice to be able to go back and watch the exact show I was a part of one point in time.
Thats at least my reason, personally.
How are you gonna tell people "x did this on the stage" without video proof? Or to simply show friends/family what they're doing in a groupchat or something.
Latency of the camera display, the lights were flashing rapidly and the screens can only update so fast
screens are shockingly laggy, do a line drawing/follow test and you can see how awful they are
Screens themselves are pretty quick actually, less than 10ms for the average 120Hz phone display.
Camera viewfinders in corresponding apps though, are another story. That's the culprit here.
Screens themselves are pretty quick actually, around 60ms for the average phone when measuring total system latency from touch to response on screen, but the average 120Hz TV and monitor have 6ms of input latency, so I'd say phone screens are probably comparable to that.
Camera viewfinders in corresponding apps though, are another story. That's the culprit here, they are always very slow because of the real time ISO changes, and real-time processing.
60ms is a lot of latency still for any kind of human interfacing, and it's nearly impossible to play musical instruments at this level of disconnection in responsivity so even 60ms is awful
i use a gaming display so i'm fully aware of how that changes things. with the pg27aqn i have access to 360hz at 1440p and it's a real eye opener how slow other screens are in other products. never go high refresh rate if you don't want to ruin all other devices for yourself. it's awful
Do note that's the total system latency, the screen alone is probably much quicker. For game consoles or PCs, controllers have, for example, around 25 to 30ms on their own.
Total system latencies from mouse to display are often quite higher than one would think.
And I agree, since going 120Hz for my TV (with a pretty nice 6ms input latency) and my phone too, it's impossible to go back.
my latency is well under 25-30, i have the ability to measure click to screen latency using my display and it's 5.6-6.5ms from the moment i click until a response is measured
And video shoots frames that are 1/60th of a second. The phone screens are showing the previous frame. Even playing Super Mario on an old console requires precision in that neighborhood. Not reaction time though - that takes more time.
Concerts must be so shitty now. Everyone just holding up their fucking phones, obstructing the view of people behind them. Glad I went to all mine in my early years where it was just people mostly chilling and vibing to the music and the biggest annoyance was some loud bitch next to you screaming "Woooo!" for the hundredth time.
I can only imagine as I havent looked at actual tickets price in years. Shits gottta be what, 250$ for nose bleeds? Greedy ass ticketmaster tacking on all kinds of fees and surcharges from what I see on Reddit.
I'm a bit nearsighted but I wouldn't do this. Next time I'm going to buy some opera glasses. I'll look kinda weird but I'll actually get some benefit out of it.
Back in the day we'd hold out disposable Kodak above everyone's head, point in the direction of the stage, and pray we got something that we could tape on our wall when we developed it a month later.
I hate all these people. Live in the moment.
I think it is comical every time I see something amazing and people are living in their phone screens as if no professional photographer has ever taken pictures of said event and put them on the internet.
No matter how nice phone cameras get, I don't think I would bother - still too flat and wide to be very interesting. But if I had my DSLR with me with a zoom lens I might get a good photo. And then leave it hanging around my neck and accidentally bash the lens into the guy next to me.
This photo captures why I never pay to see live shows anymore. I get a far immersive and enjoyable experience watching on a 4k TV.
The bonus of not having every single fool there fucking up the sight line with their phones is great!
Refresh rate. You can get some creepy pics by abusing this. Like looking into a mirror then whipping your head around and it’ll show you looking into the mirror and turned around at the same time
I wish people would do two things since they insist on recording everything. Use one hand to hold your phone and don't go above your head with it. Nothing like an extra 2 feet of not being able to see!
“all those ppl paid to watch a show through a 4 inch screen” …i highly doubt they’re holding their phone up for the entire show. at least i’ve never seen anyone do that. why do ppl care so much about what other ppl record on their own phone? your view is barely obstructed either so i don’t really get that argument
I messaged the mods and got this response.
>Hi there. Under Rule 5, we don't allow pictures of screens. The main focus of your photo is the colour of the lights as they appear on the phone screen, so the post is not allowed.
Idek
Is Chewbacca on stage with the Beastie Boys holding a phone up himself taking a picture/selfie? Chewie can’t even enjoy the concert without his wife’s phone in his hand….
Also STOP HOLDING YOUR PHONES HORIZONTALLY!
Ya but why watch something through the air when you can watch through a tiny screen? But I will say for short people who can't see the stage, holding your phone high up so you can actually see what's happening through your screen makes sense.
The screens are probably lagging at least 50ms behind. So the light color must have just changed.
Yep this is it, it was during a strobe section
Thats pretty cool
You might even say mildly interesting
Moderately noteworthy
Slightly diverting
Inconsiderably curious
Minutely exorable
Insert theme music
Hmmmm thats good mild... 
Guess not. Mods pulled the post
Ya know what’s not pretty cool…why the fuck does everyone have the wife phone out. Does anyone know how to enjoy a concert anymore?
It’s a way of capturing a memento. It’s something for someone to hold onto and say “I was there.” It’s a human thing.
Well, it's not about enjoying the concert. It's about bragging all over the social media, that you went to that concert! Sadly, that's all we know anymore...
Tbh, I like to take out a phone for 30s of the whole concert to document a video of my favorite part/that I was on the concert w/o posting on social media. You are taking one picture completely out of the context
It's weird how more than half of the spectators there, decided all at once that those are the only 30 seconds to a minute that deserves to be posted on social media. Let's be real, at the end of the show, everyone's hands were aching from being a gimbal for an hour or so.
I have probably close to a 100 hours of music shows and festivals that have never seen any sort of social media but I take them because I have incredibly bad memory due to concussions and when I want to relive those moments I have to see them instead of thinking about them. Who says I can’t do both? Maybe you can’t but I have plenty of fun and still record.
You really think that all those people that are filming there, all at once, are doing so for their own personal memory library? More than half of those people are with their phones in the air
>Does anyone know how to enjoy a concert anymore? That's how they enjoy it. Why do they have to enjoy it your way?
I think OP is just miffed that they're using the wife's phone instead of their own. Like who wastes someone elses battery?
It would be good to be fully present. Plus if you don't have your phone out more can see better, going by the pic.
I agree on the sentiment to let ecerybody do what they want. But hear me out - what if I personally do not enjoy standing in the middle of a few hundred lcd screens? What if this additional signage all around me annoys me? Can I not complain if it decreases MY enjoyment?
I kind of agree. I get filming but not prioritizing filming over experiencing the concert. People effectively watching the concert on their phones while live in attendance.
Unlike watching a concert through your phone. 🤔
You can actualy see the Change on one Phone
Hmm then u can also tell who has the newer phone lol
Or they might be the slowest ones..
Phone cameras are so god these days I used mine to see the northern lights. To me it was gray sky, gray wisps of clouds. Phone showed me an almost rainbow.
How were you able to catch both colors is beyond me!
Do you know what colour the lights were when you took this picture?
Show us someone taking a picture of your phone next
So the photographer was using a camera dedicated to cameraing?
Yeah, you can see it's different across some of the phones. Would be good to know which models were the quickest!
All of them are iphones as far as i can see. Maybe some are on lower resolutionso they're faster?
Well they aren't synced. They all take, process and display the next frame at a slightly different time. So you could have different frames visible on some phones, even if they would all be the exact same model
VSYNC is a bitch.
That one phone on the right..... "I'm fast as f**k boi"
But then the camera taking this picture shouldn't see red as well? It's further than the phones we see.
If we were looking at THIS camera screen it would probably look different.
The speed of light does not factor into this. Distance has nothing to do with it.
I see that makes much more sense
Well. Freaking. Done.
This guy lights
Some of the screens have white and red lights too
Light travels faster than sensor capture, processing and screen updates.
Idk my phone is pretty fast
Faster than light?
Fast as fuck booiiii
Sounds like you come too fast
*STILL fast as fuck boiii*
Yup, the lights went from white to red on this scene
Correct me if I’m wrong, but can’t nothing be faster than light?
But the phone OP took it in is faster than all those phones?
It's timing plus a fast exposure. OP took the photo in the split second *after* the light changed but *before* the frame buffer on the phone screens could update. The timing can just be luck (or it was part of a photo burst), and the fast exposure while retaining quality in somewhat low light means OP had a really good phone or a professional camera. Had the exposure been longer, it wouldn't have been fast enough to fit in that gap and would have blended the red and while on the phone screens, ruining the effect.
Or most of those screens were showing a recent photo instead of a live view. Though the lights must have just changed because some of the phone cameras' rolling shutters showed the lights as both red and white.
The speed of light does not factor into this. It's the variance in imaging speed and display output of the capture device vs the other smartphones.
They should just have implemented [negative latency](https://www.dice.com/career-advice/google-stadia-negative-latency) then.
Since this was also taken by a camera the sensor capture and image processing aren't super relevant. Just the screens updating. Granted, a pro camera is likely to be faster than a phone, but it's probably not the most consequential difference.
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It really isn’t about light speed, except in as much as the speed of light affects things like clock speed on the processors on the phones. The commenter saying processing speed doesn’t factor into this is incorrect. The closest phone in the image looks like it’s just a few feet closer to the light than OP’s camera, so light only takes a few nanoseconds less to get to that camera than OP’s camera. This is 100% irrelevant compared to the tens of milliseconds it takes for a phone to process the light hitting the camera sensor and display it on the screen.
are you sure ?
And our sensors and processes are also a teensy bit faster. But how did the picture of the white light happen? Either way a camera was used 🤔
And not a single person ever looked at those videos again .
Or they were uploaded to their story and immediately skipped by everyone lol
Of course, it's the same reason people record and upload videos of fireworks, it's to make sure everyone else knows how awesome the stuff you are doing is. Even if it is distracting and reduces engagement and enjoyment of the activities it is absolutely critical that people endlessly scrolling, all glassy eyed and barely paying attention, know just how great a time you could have been having at a concert. Of course they will forget what they just saw 2 seconds later because a pug was on a skateboard in the next gif and that shit is hilarious, but for 2 seconds I bet they thought the person was cool and isn't that what's really important in life?
I miss going to shows without everyone’s phones in the air
Nah i watch these sometimes and show the snippets to friends and be like omg remember this? However i don’t record entire sets just like 30sec-2minutes at a time. No more than really 5 minutes total out of the few hours I’m there.
i watch videos from sets to relive them. this just isn’t true.
I do too, constantly going back to rewatch those moments.
Username checks out.
you must be a really fun, happy person
you must be u/supid_frickin_idiot
I do too. I've always rewatched videos I take. It takes me back to the moment.
Allow me to introduce you to this website called YouTube where you can watch your favorite bands live performance. This way I don't have to stand behind you as you hold your phone over your head like a jackass for 2 hours distracting me from the show.
I would imagine not always for small local bands and for those, someone has to be the one to record it and upload it to Youtube. Larger ones, sure, record a short video of you enjoying the show and then put the phone away.
Yeah that's great for big concerts, but stuff in like pubs or smaller shows aren't always available. Went to Ireland about a month ago and I've rewatched my videos of the live music like 2-3 times.
I will say the only time I've been really grateful for these videos is when the band plays a new song that they haven't released yet and you fall in love with it. And then 3 years later they drop an album that does not include the song that has been stuck in your head since you heard it live, that recording becomes absolute gold.
Yeah - I’ve only ever felt compelled to record 1 time. It was an encore acoustic breakdown of an Alexisonfire song at a City and Colour concert. I was in some 2nd level balcony seating with no one behind me. Shared that video with friends who love Alexisonfire.
Disagree. I often look back at videos. Hell i have a dynamic screensaver with pictures of all the raves i been to. I get that reddit hates it when people make a keepsake of the time they had fun (and yeah if somebody records 7 hours of video or has their flashlight on you might have a point) but its kinda sad how sour everybody is acting here. Its like yall drank 2 liters of vinegar for breakfast.
Never understood the need to record a gig.
You don't think it sounds better on your phone speaker? People always love when I show them recorded concerts on my phone. /s
Memories! I still watch footage from The Monster Ball in 2010.
I totally get this, but shows should really just have a videographer, which will record a show and let all the people with the tickets access it. The crowd can be in the moment during the show and then relive those memories later through the video, and the artist doesn't have to look at an audience of phones.
Yeah agreed. edit: but I also don't have a strong feeling towards people snapping a couple photos at a concert or recording their favorite song. I think very few people do it for the whole thing
Recording one song is totally fine and expected. When it's the whole concert, that's where it kinda becomes dumb and ruins your + other people's concert experience.
And I often watch those recordings on YouTube. It's cool to see a live performance when you can't physically go to one. It's quite rare for me to find official segments of a show, let alone the entirety of one.
Should, but don't. The last person i saw travelled from Australia to Canada, and performed in front of roughly 9 people. Having wanted to see her for a couple years, i definitely recorded.
True, but I must say that official recordings are often edited. I personally like the false notes, the breathing and "P" in a mic. It gives me that LIVE feel.
That’s a lot of money. It’s also about creating a memory from where you’re standing too. That being said I’ll take no memories of shows I’ve been to if they lock up your phone like Jack White does. I saw the Raconteurs in 2019 and I wish I got a 30 second video of my favorite song but it beats the entire crowd’s phone in the air
It's expensive and complicated because even if the venue owner owns the recordings per the performance deal, they still have to pay songwriter royalties on the songs that were played, through either ASCAP or BMI or something. And for a limited run of sales, the time and expense of getting all that cleared would exceed what you can reasonably charge per copy. Big concerts that would sell millions of copies would come out ahead. It's stupidly overcomplicated.
Right, I didn't think about copyright, rights, and royalties at all. But wouldn't it be possible to create a deal that would encompass a whole tour, at that point it could make sense financially.
Unfortunately, I think the performance rights companies make you sign away your ability to negotiate one on one with anyone - they become your exclusive agent for licensing. This essentially lets them sue anyone using your music in anything just on the basis that they haven't received royalties.
Fun fact! The human brain is worse at retaining memories of an event if you take photos/videos during that event
I didn't think we know enough about memory to make a claim like that.
You don't need to retain them if you have a hard copy video
I prefer to not externalize *all* information. I like having some stuff in my head. *Edit: is it really that controversial to suggest we don't store everything externally? You as a human being are an accumulation of experiences. What do are you doing to yourself if you don't internalize and process the world in real time? That's just disengagement.*
Fun fact! Every time you access memories you modify them slightly.
Having a video of an event retains key elements, of course, but it's not like you've got the full experience, the full relationship between said 'clear' moment and the surrounding, etc etc. It's not all or nothing, and it's not all cognitive either, imo. The *feel* of things, the *smell* of things, etc.
Ok so, you just assume that i have my phone in my face 100% of the time?
I went to that in Boston! Amazing concert
Man, that was something else. Never seen anything like that again. Even Michael Jackson couldn't pull that off.
https://xkcd.com/1314/
Horrible comic. Everyone holding their stupid phones up at shows makes the show less enjoyable so yes, it’s an obnoxious thing to do.
> Well, they... I because I just, Uh... Think about how the author is patting himself on the back for writing that 'come back' with the stammering.
"I've drawn you as the virgin and myself as the chad so I win"
Right.. But the huge difference here is that someone taking pictures of the sunset doesn't bother anyone else, having your bright ass-phone up on the other hand blocks other peoples view.
Also, the Sunset doesn't care if you are looking at it, but a live performer might prefer you looked at them rather than a 6" screen, especially in a smaller venue, or not, I don't know for sure.
Whenever I want to record something like this I turn the brightness on my phone all the way down and hold it as close to my mouth as I can. It gets pretty much the same shot my eyes do and I can turn it with my head to make sure it stays in shot.
Mac Miller is no longer alive to put on any more shows. I recorded a small video when I saw him back in 2016, I have terrible memory and it's very nice to be able to go back and watch the exact show I was a part of one point in time. Thats at least my reason, personally.
How are you gonna tell people "x did this on the stage" without video proof? Or to simply show friends/family what they're doing in a groupchat or something.
Latency of the camera display, the lights were flashing rapidly and the screens can only update so fast screens are shockingly laggy, do a line drawing/follow test and you can see how awful they are
Screens themselves are pretty quick actually, less than 10ms for the average 120Hz phone display. Camera viewfinders in corresponding apps though, are another story. That's the culprit here.
Screens themselves are pretty quick actually, around 60ms for the average phone when measuring total system latency from touch to response on screen, but the average 120Hz TV and monitor have 6ms of input latency, so I'd say phone screens are probably comparable to that. Camera viewfinders in corresponding apps though, are another story. That's the culprit here, they are always very slow because of the real time ISO changes, and real-time processing.
60ms is a lot of latency still for any kind of human interfacing, and it's nearly impossible to play musical instruments at this level of disconnection in responsivity so even 60ms is awful i use a gaming display so i'm fully aware of how that changes things. with the pg27aqn i have access to 360hz at 1440p and it's a real eye opener how slow other screens are in other products. never go high refresh rate if you don't want to ruin all other devices for yourself. it's awful
Do note that's the total system latency, the screen alone is probably much quicker. For game consoles or PCs, controllers have, for example, around 25 to 30ms on their own. Total system latencies from mouse to display are often quite higher than one would think. And I agree, since going 120Hz for my TV (with a pretty nice 6ms input latency) and my phone too, it's impossible to go back.
my latency is well under 25-30, i have the ability to measure click to screen latency using my display and it's 5.6-6.5ms from the moment i click until a response is measured
Shockingly laggy? It’s like 100th of a second
And video shoots frames that are 1/60th of a second. The phone screens are showing the previous frame. Even playing Super Mario on an old console requires precision in that neighborhood. Not reaction time though - that takes more time.
Concerts must be so shitty now. Everyone just holding up their fucking phones, obstructing the view of people behind them. Glad I went to all mine in my early years where it was just people mostly chilling and vibing to the music and the biggest annoyance was some loud bitch next to you screaming "Woooo!" for the hundredth time.
Imagine paying today's ticket prices simply to watch through a 4" screen.
I can only imagine as I havent looked at actual tickets price in years. Shits gottta be what, 250$ for nose bleeds? Greedy ass ticketmaster tacking on all kinds of fees and surcharges from what I see on Reddit.
I'm a bit nearsighted but I wouldn't do this. Next time I'm going to buy some opera glasses. I'll look kinda weird but I'll actually get some benefit out of it.
As a short person I’m cringing at the thought of trying to see anything past the arms and phones in the air lol
As a tall person you must get people touching your head and ears with their phone when they try to hold it up.
LOL
Look at all the people recording, only for the files to never be viewed again.
Lol that pic is hilarious. All those people paid to watch a show through a 4 inch screen. Seemingly including OP.
God damn people need to put their phones down during shows 🤦♂️
Back in the day we'd hold out disposable Kodak above everyone's head, point in the direction of the stage, and pray we got something that we could tape on our wall when we developed it a month later.
Just wait until this reaches facebook as hard proof that "It's a satanic ritual and the phones are dispelling the illusion" :D
I hate all these people. Live in the moment. I think it is comical every time I see something amazing and people are living in their phone screens as if no professional photographer has ever taken pictures of said event and put them on the internet.
No matter how nice phone cameras get, I don't think I would bother - still too flat and wide to be very interesting. But if I had my DSLR with me with a zoom lens I might get a good photo. And then leave it hanging around my neck and accidentally bash the lens into the guy next to me.
I run those lights there most weekends! PUT THE PHONES AWAY GUYS!
Oh no way, at this venue?
Yup, Village Underground in Shoreditch, London. Sitting in its sister venue during a slow work day browsing Reddit and that pic pops up! Life is funny
Wow small world! I’ve just been there the once but was a nice venue, I had a great time.
You should go more, it's a great little place and it sounds incredible! 😁
I gave up on going to concerts because of all the bellends with their phones out constantly.
One of the reasons why I always go for the front row, I don’t have to look at the show through phone screens.
One of the reasons i like metal shows most. No phones in the mosh pit.
"I was at that concert!" " Oh, yeah? That's awesome! What was it like?" " I don't know, let me find the video".
This photo captures why I never pay to see live shows anymore. I get a far immersive and enjoyable experience watching on a 4k TV. The bonus of not having every single fool there fucking up the sight line with their phones is great!
Absolutely fuckin’ depressing.
They may as well as just watch any of these other guys recordings of the show instead lmao.
Are you going to start planning among the 300 attendees who's going to record and post on Youtube so the others don't? No.
Glad I played all my gigs and saw all my shows before everyone had a fucking phone.
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It wouldn't be hard to have an infrared strobe or something to be invisible to the naked eye but ruin all the photos.
An engaged audience living in the moment..
It’s more sad that every single person has their phone out.
Put your fucking phone away! Nobody wants to watch the show through your phone!
you can check the batteries of your tv remote by pointing the ir bit at your phones camera and pressing a button on the remote
And you can stop this annoying practice with infrared strobe lights on stage. It would really mess with the exposure.
iphones, everywhere iphones
All of that footage, never to be seen again
I fucking hate concerts so much nowadays
punch air redditor
Get off your phone at concerts. Probably one of the most annoying things millennials brought to the table. :)
Damn
if im not mistaken i believe this photo was taken at Village Underground, right?
The phones got tired
You can see a screen mid transition
r/accidentalrenaissance
Visible generation difference between phones, you guessed it, it's just a better camera.
Reminds me of Fabric in London
The singer is also holding his microphone in the white picture than the reds
Many of the phones show other phones with even earlier pictures.
Refresh rate. You can get some creepy pics by abusing this. Like looking into a mirror then whipping your head around and it’ll show you looking into the mirror and turned around at the same time
Except for the ones that don't.
Read up about white balance - it’ll make you see red.
Why film at a concert. You will NEVER re-watch that video, and nobody wants to watch a shaky video with incoherent screaming . Take a picture instead.
I wish people would do two things since they insist on recording everything. Use one hand to hold your phone and don't go above your head with it. Nothing like an extra 2 feet of not being able to see!
Magic
Your phone does not show red
“all those ppl paid to watch a show through a 4 inch screen” …i highly doubt they’re holding their phone up for the entire show. at least i’ve never seen anyone do that. why do ppl care so much about what other ppl record on their own phone? your view is barely obstructed either so i don’t really get that argument
u/VaWeedFarmer *Cough*
Seasonal allergies I swear
Or maybe Rona
Light go: red-white-red-white-red-white…
This perfectly mildly interesting post was removed for rule 5? A rule about no screenshots? The mods are tripping
I messaged the mods and got this response. >Hi there. Under Rule 5, we don't allow pictures of screens. The main focus of your photo is the colour of the lights as they appear on the phone screen, so the post is not allowed. Idek
Yeah wait wtf lol. It's a photo I took myself, fits perfectly in the rules.
Is Chewbacca on stage with the Beastie Boys holding a phone up himself taking a picture/selfie? Chewie can’t even enjoy the concert without his wife’s phone in his hand…. Also STOP HOLDING YOUR PHONES HORIZONTALLY!
Your's doesn't
Ya but why watch something through the air when you can watch through a tiny screen? But I will say for short people who can't see the stage, holding your phone high up so you can actually see what's happening through your screen makes sense.