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“Sex and death,” William Butler Yeats once wrote, “are the only things that can interest a serious mind.” And since its inception, the cinema has held a unique fascination with human sexuality.

In 1899, just four years after the Lumière brothers hosted their first private screening of moving black-and-white images—or motion pictures—French filmmakers Albert Kirchner and Eugène Pirou birthed Le Coucher de la Mariée. The film, silent and seven minutes in length, featured cabaret star Louise Willy performing a sultry striptease. Kirchner and Pirou’s short is widely regarded as the first pornographic film ever made.

It wasn’t until Un chant d’amour, a short film directed by Jean Genet and released in 1950, that unsimulated sex crept into “mainstream” cinema. The 26-minute film, featuring cinematography by Jean Cocteau, told the tale of a guard in a French prison that derived pleasure from watching the inmates masturbate. Genet’s groundbreaking black and white film boasted close-up shots of male masturbation. Following the abandonment of the Hays Code, a strict set of moral censorship guidelines that governed Hollywood from 1930 to 1968, sex became more prevalent in cinema.

Lars von Trier’s 1998 film Idioterne, which contained a close-up shot of penetrative (vaginal) sex ushered in an era of unsimulated sex in movies, which included Catherine Breillat’s Romance, Leos Carax’s Pola X, Chloe Sevigny’s oral sex scene on Vincent Gallo in The Brown Bunny, and Michael Winterbottom’s music-and-sex flick 9 Songs.

The Danish provocateur’s latest is Nymphomaniac: Vol. I. It’s the first in a two-part saga centered on Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the titular sex addict, who traces her erotic journey from birth to the middle age. The risqué psychosexual odyssey also contains what appear to be unsimulated sex scenes between a twenty-something Joe (Stacy Martin), and her one-time lover, played by Shia LaBeouf.

How did von Trier’s team pull it off? And how have cinema’s most realistic-looking sex scenes been created? Let’s take a look.

In the climactic scene of von Trier’s sexually explicit film, the audience is treated to close-up shots of LaBeouf penetrating Martin. The scene is shot from below while LaBeouf is standing and Martin is straddling him, so you see his shaft repeatedly entering her—with the troubled actor’s face appearing in the leftover space.

“We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post we will digital-impose the two,” producer Christine Vesth explained. “So above the waist it will be the star and below the waist it will be the doubles.”

The CGI-matching was such a painstaking process that it delayed the film’s production, which wasn’t ready for Cannes.

“Because of the special effects, they needed the porn doubles to do it first,” said Martin. “So they would have sex—they would do their job, basically, because I think they’re porn actors in Germany—and then we would come on and do exactly the same thing, but with pants on, basically. And then it’s all [edited in] post.”

There’s also a very real-looking blowjob scene in the film, with Martin orally servicing a train passenger, but the Nymphomaniac team used a prosthetic, according to Martin.

Filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour epic, based on a graphic novel by Julie Maroh, tells the story of Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), an awkward (but beautiful) 15-year-old girl who, after a failed fling with a male classmate, finds herself falling for Emma (Léa Seydoux), a blue-haired college student studying art. It’s as honest and raw a depiction of first love you’re likely to see onscreen, and contains a much-ballyhooed seven-minute sex scene between the two young women that looks awfully real—a mélange of writhing, grunting and slapping, as well as what appears to be manual and oral vaginal penetration.

“We had fake pussies that were molds of our real pussies,” Seydoux told me. “It was weird to have a fake mold of your pussy and then put it over your real one. We spent 10 days on just that one scene. It wasn’t like, OK, today we’re going to shoot the sex scene! It was 10 days.”

“One day you know that you’re going to be naked all day and doing different sexual positions, and it’s hard because I’m not that familiar with lesbian sex,” added Exarchopoulos.

It’s one of the most notorious—and disturbing—sequences in modern cinema. In Gaspar Noe’s French rape-revenge thriller, told in reverse-chronological order, Alex (Monica Bellucci) has become frustrated by the antics of her boyfriend, Marcus (Vincent Cassel), and leaves a party. On her way home, she sees a pimp named “le Tenia” beating a transgender prostitute. He turns his attention to Alex, follows her into an underpass, pins her to the ground, and brutally beats and anally rapes her.

One of the reasons why it’s so chilling—and caused a string of walk-outs—is that the scene appears to be shot in a continuous take, making it seem all too real. After le Tenia is done raping and beating Alex, you see him removing his penis and putting it back in his pants. But the “continuous take” effect was achieved by joining two of the takes via editing. Noe shot seven different versions of the scene uninterrupted, and ended up with a “virtual take”—combining the first half of take 7 and the second half of take 4.

“It’s not real,” said Bellucci. “It looks like a snuff film because Gaspar shot it in such a realistic way, so people get very upset when they see it. But it’s just acting…You know that nice dress I wore? We had 10 of them because they get destroyed during the rape. So I asked for one for me when we finished. I thought that maybe one night I would wear it because it’s so pretty. But after the scene, I couldn’t touch it. I couldn’t even look at it.”

The scene’s realism was further enhanced by digital clean-up and CGI effects, including adding blood and gashes to Bellucci’s face, as well as attaching a detumescent penis to the rapist as he rolls off her.

“We kept the zip up while we were filming the rape scene because otherwise it would have been too much for Monica,” said Noe. “But I [digitally altered] the scene in postproduction to make it more real.’”

Arguably the most memorable part of Swede Marc Forster’s race relations drama is the feral, cathartic sex scene between Leticia (Halle Berry), a single mother whose husband was executed on death row, and Hank (Billy Bob Thornton), the racist corrections officer that led the man to the electric chair. Angela Bassett was reportedly offered the role but turned it down because of the sex scene, which is very raw, and sees Berry’s character—butt naked—riding Thornton’s while screaming, “Make me feel good!”

But the scene, which shows both actors stark naked and appearing to have sex, was merely the result of excellent acting.

“I would only do it if Billy Bob agreed to be as naked as I was,” said Berry. “We shot the sex scene on Day 19 of a 21-day shoot. I always say Billy Bob and I dated for three weeks and then we had sex. The sex scene scared me completely, but courage comes in strange ways. I look at it now and I think, who is that girl up there?”

“Halle said, ‘Either you tell me every angle of the shoot’—which would make it very stiff—‘or you just give me final cut over the scene,’” added Forster. “I said that was fine. It was better because they didn’t have to worry about it and so we had more freedom. We shot the scene and then three of us went through the dailies. Basically it was decided from there what they wanted to cut or keep. When they saw the final scene, they were both very happy with it.” Berry went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for her uninhibited performance, while Thornton later claimed the realistic nature of the sex scene contributed to the demise of his relationship with then-girlfriend Angelina Jolie.

Now regarded as one of the worst films ever made, this biopic tracing the rise and fall of the titular Roman Emperor, played by Malcolm McDowell, contained a great deal of nudity from its stars—including Helen Mirren as his ex-courtesan/wife, Caesonia. But Penthouse founder Bob Guccione’s $17 million epic, scripted by Gore Vidal and (mostly) directed by Tinto Brass, contains a laundry list of unsimulated sex scenes featuring Penthouse Pets, including fisting, fellatio, urination, and penetration.

After Guccione fired Brass, he hired Giancarlo Lui to film an addition 14 minutes of hardcore sex scenes featuring his beloved Penthouse models, editing six of those minutes into the final cut.

“In the two hours of this film that I saw, there were no scenes of joy, natural pleasure, or good sensual cheer,” wrote the late, great film critic Roger Ebert. “There was, instead, a nauseating excursion into base and sad fantasies.” Caligula is one of only three films that Ebert ever walked out of.

Forster used the sex scenes in the films of acclaimed British director Nicolas Roeg as a model for his big scene in Monster’s Ball. The most famous—and notorious—of which is in his 1973 classic Don’t Look Now.

After the accidental drowning death of their young child, John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura (Julie Christie) take a trip to Venice, Italy. While Laura is out at a restaurant, Heather, a blind woman who claims to be a medium that’s able to communicate with her deceased daughter, approaches. Laura faints, and is taken to the hospital. Upon her return, John and Laura engage in passionate sex—a four-minute sequence that, for years, was claimed to be real thanks to the actors convincing performances.

In Peter Bart’s tome Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex), Bart, then a young Paramount exec, claims he visited the Venice set of the film on an “auspicious” day—the day they shot the sex scene. Bart claims he had the following conversation with Roeg:

Bart: Don’t they expect you to say “cut?”

Roeg: I just want to be sure I have the coverage.

Bart: His dick is moving in and out of her. That’s beyond coverage.

The actors, however, claim it was just great acting.

“Peter Bart mendaciously writes that he witnessed the shooting of the love scene in Don’t Look Now and saw sex,” claimed Sutherland. “Not true. None of it. Not the sex. Not him witnessing it. From beginning to end, there were four people in that room. [Director] Nic Roeg, [DP] Tony Richmond, Julie Christie and me. No one else. Wires under the locked door led outside, and this was 20 years before video monitors.”

“It was pretend sex, (but) it was tough on both Donald and myself,” added Christie. We did the scene at the beginning of the film and we were dreadfully embarrassed. After the film came out, my stepfather said to me, ‘I hope you’re not doing any writhing in your next one.’”

Zach Galifianakis before and after weight loss

He played the portly and lovable Alan in the 2009 comedy hit The Hangover.

But Zach Galifianakis was more Bradley Cooper than the rotund funny man fans are used to seeing when he attended a movie screening on Saturday showing-off a much slighter frame.

The 45-year-old actor displayed the drastic weight loss at the premiere of Birdman at Alice Tully Hall in New York - his first public event in a year.

Zach Galifianakis before and after weight loss

While there, the Campaign star spoke to The Hollywood Reporter and revealed his feelings about life in the spotlight. He said: 'It's confusing to me - all of this is confusing to me. They oversell it like we're curing cancer, you know what I mean? I just think it can be gross sometimes, the way Hollywood congratulates itself all the time.'

Earlier in the day at a press conference, the funny man reportedly said: 'Being a celebrity is sh*t - it's dumb, and I'm not interested in it,

'I like to be an actor, and that's it. The blurred lines are, I think, man-made. I think celebrity is a man-made thing; it's not innate in us…I'd rather just do my work and go home and watch Lifetime.'

The Due Date star looked dapper in a grey suit featuring fine blue checks and matching pale blue shirt with navy tie to complete the ensemble.

He also sported jaw-length curly locks as well as his signature scruffy beard.

According to IMDb, Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance focuses on a washed-up actor called Riggan Thomson, played by Michael Keaton, 'who once played an iconic superhero'.

He 'must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory.'

Naomi Watts plays the protagonist's girlfriend, Lesley, a nervous actress in the play while Zach plays Jake, the play's producer, in the black comedy.

A thread surfaced on Reddit today that contained links to files containing hundreds of usernames and passwords for Dropbox accounts in plain text, but it’s unclear where they were obtained from.

In four Pastebin files linked to from the site, a few hundred username and password pairs were listed in plain text as “teases” for a full leak from an anonymous user, who asked for Bitcoin donations for continued leaks.

A message annotated at the top of the leaks said:

Here is another batch of Hacked Dropbox accounts from the massive hack of 7,000,000 accounts To see plenty more, just search on [redacted] for the term Dropbox hack.

More to come, keep showing your support

Users in the Reddit thread allegedly confirmed the credentials in the spreadsheet worked at time of writing on multiple accounts listed, however it’s not clear where these credentials actually came from nor how many users were affected.

Dropbox, however, said in a statement to The Next Web that it is not to blame for the leaked passwords and that these were stolen from other, third party services:

Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.

Dropbox says it performed password resets when it detected ‘suspicious activity’ on these accounts a few months ago.

There are some things you can count on in life: The sun will rise in the east and set in the west, and Miley Cyrus will continue to share topless photos on Instagram.

The 21-year-old singer soaked up as much sun as possible for the Australian leg of her Bangerz tour, and that meant making sure she didn't get any pesky tan lines.

Cyrus, of course, shared proof of her topless sunbathing with her fans on Instagram, covering her chest with alien heads to comply with Intstagram's terms of service.

From multi-award winning directors Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman, comes this 'Illuminating Documentary' (Time Out). Delving deeply into the often misunderstood and frequently over looked historic realities of the American Indian, The Canary Effect follows the terrifying and horrific abuses instilled upon the Indigenous people of North America, and details the genocidal practices of the US government and its continuing affects on present day Indian country.

Featuring interviews with the leading scholars and experts on Indian issues including controversial author Ward Churchill, the film brings together the past and present in a way never before captured so eloquently and boldly on film.

Roger Deakins is a man who needs no introduction. Arguably the most renowned cinematographer currently working, Deakins has burned vivid and unforgettable images into our cinema-going minds, having worked with some of the most respected directors of our time—including Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Bob Rafelson, Norman Jewison and many others. He’s also lensed some of Joel and Ethan Coen’s best pictures, summoning indelible imagery from the nightmarish, Kafka-esque apartment complexes of “Barton Fink," the sleazy, delirious L.A. daydream of “The Big Lebowski” and the godless Texas frontier of “No Country for Old Men.” He was also behind the cameras for one of the brother’s most sadly overlooked efforts, “The Man Who Wasn’t There," a gorgeous, sullen, 1950’s-era drama about a taciturn barber who gets mixed up in some real bad business. The movie doesn’t traffic in the splashy violence or broad comedy that characterizes some of the Coens' other pictures, but it is a subdued and compelling film, made all the more watchable by Deakins’ inky, alluring and staggeringly beautiful black-and-white cinematography. For those curious viewers desiring a deeper look into the film’s visual conception, here is a fascinating in-depth interview with Mr. Deakins himself about his work on the film.

Deakins touches on a number of interesting topics here: the virtues of black-and-white photography, the process of successfully transporting an audience into the past and the peculiar rituals of working with Joel and Ethan Coen. He also discusses the “seamless” nature of his preferred working method, and how shots that call attention to themselves can sometimes distract from the film as a whole as the audience watches. Listening to Deakins talk about his craft is almost intoxicating—he’s a calm, articulate and deeply thoughtful man who has a frighteningly preternatural understanding of both the art of photography and how said art services a cinematic narrative. All of Deakins’ collaborations with the Coens—even purportedly minor films like “The Ladykillers” and “A Serious Man”—feel like fully lived-in and fleshed-out worlds, each with their own distinct rhythms and set of rules. “The Man Who Wasn’t There” is one of Deakins’ most visually evocative pictures—a brooding melting pot of commie-era paranoia, shadowy Chandlerian noir and typical pitch-black Coen humor, with dashes of domestic melodrama and even a little sci-fi thrown in for good measure. This interview goes deep into Deakins’ mastery of his craft and it’s both absorbing and deeply informative.

Deakins recently wrapped principal photography on Angelina Jolie’s WWII drama “Unbroken”—a project that the Coens have actually done a few rewrites on—which now has a December 25th release date.

Ellen Chan has denied the rumours claiming that she tried to conceive a child with Johnson Lee through an in-vitro fertilisation treatment. The 47-year-old actress has been rumoured to be dating 39-year-old Johnson after the pair were caught kissing passionately inside a taxi cab in May. It was said that Ellen was one of the main reasons why Johnson broke up with his former girlfriend, Lukian Wang.

Ellen called the unfounded reports of her pregnancy “fictitious, fabricated, and lacked common sense,” also expressing that she will pursue legal action against the perpetrators. She pointed out that she would be unable to receive in-vitro fertilization anyway, as the Hong Kong government only allows registered couples who are unable to conceive naturally to be qualified to receive the treatment.

The actress also shot down the rumors claiming that she has been dating Johnson, saying that she is currently very single.

Ellen wrote angrily in a Weibo post, “The ethics in today’s entertainment magazines are morally corrupt! In order to sell magazines, they completely fabricate [lies] to hurt others. Every word that is a lie, and every fabricated story hurts the respect of women. This is an enormous and personal attack against me! It has also hurt my innocent friends and led to my family bearing the pressure of rumors! This time, I was truly hurt! It’s like being relentlessly stabbed in the chest by a knife; my heart is aching!”

A record 83 countries have submitted films for consideration in the foreign-language film category for the 87th Academy Awards. That easily tops record 76 that were under consideration last year.

The entries include four first-timers: Kosovo, Malta, Mauritania and Panama.

Also new to the race: The name of the director will be engraved onto the Oscar statuette, in addition to the name of the country.

The five nominees will be announced Jan. 15, along with contenders in all the other categories. But a week before then, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will release a short list of nine foreign-language semi-finalists.

Each country can submit one film, determining on its own how this choice will be made. Any film that opens commercially in the U.S. in calendar 2014 will be eligible in other categories as well. The last foreign-lingo film to score a best picture nomination was the 2012 “Amour.” The category was created in 1956.

Deadline for submissions was Oct. 1. Since then, the foreign-language film award committee has reviewed the submissions to make sure they qualify, in terms of national contributions (in an era of multi-national co-productions) and opening dates within its own country (Oct. 1, 2013, to Sept. 30, 2014.

The 2014 submissions are:

Afghanistan, “A Few Cubic Meters of Love,” Jamshid Mahmoudi, director;

Argentina, “Wild Tales”, Damián Szifrón, director;

Australia, “Charlie’s Country,” Rolf de Heer, director;

Austria, “The Dark Valley,” Andreas Prochaska, director;

Azerbaijan, “Nabat,” Elchin Musaoglu, director;

Bangladesh, “Glow of the Firefly,” Khalid Mahmood Mithu, director;

Belgium, “Two Days, One Night,” Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, directors;

Bolivia, “Forgotten,” Carlos Bolado, director;

Bosnia and Herzegovina, “With Mom,” Faruk Lončarevič, director;

Brazil, “The Way He Looks,” Daniel Ribeiro, director;

Bulgaria, “Bulgarian Rhapsody,” Ivan Nitchev, director;

Canada, “Mommy,” Xavier Dolan, director;

Chile, “To Kill a Man,” Alejandro Fernández Almendras, director;

China, “The Nightingale,” Philippe Muyl, director;

Colombia, “Mateo,” María Gamboa, director;

Costa Rica, “Red Princesses,” Laura Astorga Carrera, director;

Croatia, “Cowboys,” Tomislav Mršić, director;

Cuba, “Conducta,” Ernesto Daranas Serrano, director;

Czech Republic, “Fair Play,” Andrea Sedláčková, director;

Denmark, “Sorrow and Joy,” Nils Malmros, director;

Dominican Republic, “Cristo Rey,” Leticia Tonos, director;

Ecuador, “Silence in Dreamland,” Tito Molina, director;

Egypt, “Factory Girl,” Mohamed Khan, director;

Estonia, “Tangerines,” Zaza Urushadze, director;

Ethiopia, “Difret,” Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, director;

Finland, “Concrete Night,” Pirjo Honkasalo, director;

France, “Saint Laurent,” Bertrand Bonello, director;

Georgia, “Corn Island,” George Ovashvili, director;

Germany, “Beloved Sisters,” Dominik Graf, director;

Greece, “Little England,” Pantelis Voulgaris, director;

Hong Kong, “The Golden Era,” Ann Hui, director;

Hungary, “White God,” Kornél Mundruczó, director;

Iceland, “Life in a Fishbowl,” Baldvin Zophoníasson, director;

India, “Liar’s Dice,” Geetu Mohandas, director;

Indonesia, “Soekarno,” Hanung Bramantyo, director;

Iran, “Today,” Reza Mirkarimi, director;

Iraq, “Mardan,” Batin Ghobadi, director;

Ireland, “The Gift,” Tom Collins, director;

Israel, “Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz, directors;

Italy, “Human Capital,” Paolo Virzì, director;

Japan, “The Light Shines Only There,” Mipo O, director;

Kosovo, “Three Windows and a Hanging,” Isa Qosja, director;

Kyrgyzstan, “Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains,” Sadyk Sher-Niyaz, director;

Latvia, “Rocks in My Pockets,” Signe Baumane, director;

Lebanon, “Ghadi,” Amin Dora, director;

Lithuania, “The Gambler,” Ignas Jonynas, director;

Luxembourg, “Never Die Young,” Pol Cruchten, director;

Macedonia, “To the Hilt,” Stole Popov, director;

Malta, “Simshar,” Rebecca Cremona, director;

Mauritania, “Timbuktu,” Abderrahmane Sissako, director;

Mexico, “Cantinflas,” Sebastián del Amo, director;

Moldova, “The Unsaved,” Igor Cobileanski, director;

Montenegro, “The Kids from the Marx and Engels Street,” Nikola Vukčević, director;

Morocco, “The Red Moon,” Hassan Benjelloun, director;

Nepal, “Jhola,” Yadav Kumar Bhattarai, director;

Netherlands, “Accused,” Paula van der Oest, director;

New Zealand, “The Dead Lands,” Toa Fraser, director;

Norway, “1001 Grams,” Bent Hamer, director;

Pakistan, “Dukhtar,” Afia Nathaniel, director;

Palestine, “Eyes of a Thief,” Najwa Najjar, director;

Panama, “Invasion,” Abner Benaim, director;

Peru, “The Gospel of the Flesh,” Eduardo Mendoza, director;

Philippines, “Norte, the End of History,” Lav Diaz, director;

Poland, “Ida,” Paweł Pawlikowski, director;

Portugal, “What Now? Remind Me,” Joaquim Pinto, director;

Romania, “The Japanese Dog,” Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, director;

Russia, “Leviathan,” Andrey Zvyagintsev, director;

Serbia, “See You in Montevideo,” Dragan Bjelogrlić, director;

Singapore, “Sayang Disayang,” Sanif Olek, director;

Slovakia, “A Step into the Dark,” Miloslav Luther, director;

Slovenia, “Seduce Me,” Marko Šantić, director;

South Africa, “Elelwani,” Ntshavheni Wa Luruli, director;

South Korea, “Haemoo,” Shim Sung-bo, director;

Spain, “Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed,” David Trueba, director;

Sweden, “Force Majeure,” Ruben Östlund, director;

Switzerland, “The Circle,” Stefan Haupt, director;

Taiwan, “Ice Poison,” Midi Z, director;

Thailand, “The Teacher’s Diary,” Nithiwat Tharathorn, director;

Turkey, “Winter Sleep,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director;

Ukraine, “The Guide,” Oles Sanin, director;

United Kingdom, “Little Happiness,” Nihat Seven, director;

Uruguay, “Mr. Kaplan,” Álvaro Brechner, director;

Venezuela, “The Liberator,” Alberto Arvelo, director.

The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced Jan. 15 at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Oscars will be held Feb. 22, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.

To celebrate International No Car Day (Sept. 22), some clever Latvian bicyclists from the Let’s Bike It organization dressed their bikes up as automobiles in Riga to show how much space people waste when they commute by car instead of by bike. By hanging colorful car-sized frame from their bikes, they highlight just how absurd it is that a single individual should take up so much space during their commute.

Bicycles can reduce traffic congestion by saving space, but that’s not all they’re good for. They help the environment by reducing traffic emissions and producing none of their own, and they’re a great form of exercise for workers who might otherwise sit at their desk all day.

Last month, Blackmagic Design released a firmware update for their Production Camera 4K, which included the ability to format SSDs internally. It was only a matter of time before that oft-requested feature was added to the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Pocket Cinema Camera. Today Blackmagic Design announced firmware version 1.9.7, which adds the ability to internally format media in both cameras, as well as a spiffy new menu system, which makes it easier to reach the most needed menu functions.

Here's an excerpt from the press release that explains how the internal formatting works, and elaborates on which media formats the cameras now support:

This new disk formatting feature is unique because unlike computers that format disks for general storage use, the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Pocket Cinema Camera can format disks optimized for high performance video use. When formatting the camera confirms the brand of disk and other disks parameters and then formats for highest speed video data recording and playback for that specific type of disk. This also means that as new disks are released in the future, new software can be released to take advantage of unique features of disks for maximum performance when recording high data rate RAW 4K images.

Customers also get the opportunity to choose between two disk formats, ExFAT and HFS+. The ExFAT is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X so is a good choice when customers are working on Windows or working between Windows and Mac OS X platforms as both platforms natively will read the disk. When customers are working on Mac OS X exclusively, the HFS+ format is the native Mac OS format and this allows higher performance for Mac users as well as better error protection because HFS+ supports journaling.

The updated firmware also includes an updated user interface, including what Blackmagic is calling the dashboard menu (which can be seen in the photo above). The dashboard menu provides easy access to the most used camera settings, such as enabling focus peaking, turning on frame guides, and formatting media.

Firmware version 1.9.7 is available to download now. Here are the links for the Mac version and the Windows version.

We've done the legwork for you and here they are: the 45 best health tips. Make that 46 - taking the time to read this tops the list.

Learn to do stretching exercises when you wake up. It boosts circulation and digestion, and eases back pain.

Studies show that eating a proper breakfast is one of the most positive things you can do if you are trying to lose weight. Breakfast skippers tend to gain weight. A balanced breakfast includes fresh fruit or fruit juice, a high-fibre breakfast cereal, low-fat milk or yoghurt, wholewheat toast, and a boiled egg.

Many people don't know how to brush their teeth properly. Improper brushing can cause as much damage to the teeth and gums as not brushing at all. Lots of people don’t brush for long enough, don’t floss and don’t see a dentist regularly. Hold your toothbrush in the same way that would hold a pencil, and brush for at least two minutes.

This includes brushing the teeth, the junction of the teeth and gums, the tongue and the roof of the mouth. And you don't need a fancy, angled toothbrush – just a sturdy, soft-bristled one that you replace each month.

Get your brain fizzing with energy. American researchers coined the term ‘neurobics’ for tasks which activate the brain's own biochemical pathways and to bring new pathways online that can help to strengthen or preserve brain circuits.

Brush your teeth with your ‘other’ hand, take a new route to work or choose your clothes based on sense of touch rather than sight. People with mental agility tend to have lower rates of Alzheimer's disease and age-related mental decline.

Always giving and never taking? This is the short road to compassion fatigue. Give to yourself and receive from others, otherwise you’ll get to a point where you have nothing left to give. And hey, if you can’t receive from others, how can you expect them to receive from you?

A study conducted by the formidably sober and scientific Harvard University found that patients who were prayed for recovered quicker than those who weren’t, even if they weren’t aware of the prayer.

Garlic, onions, spring onions and leeks all contain stuff that’s good for you. A study at the Child’s Health Institute in Cape Town found that eating raw garlic helped fight serious childhood infections. Heat destroys these properties, so eat yours raw, wash it down with fruit juice or, if you’re a sissy, have it in tablet form.

A glass of red wine a day is good for you. A number of studies have found this, but a recent one found that the polyphenols (a type of antioxidant) in green tea, red wine and olives may also help protect you against breast cancer. It’s thought that the antioxidants help protect you from environmental carcinogens such as passive tobacco smoke.

Get your daily calcium by popping a tab, chugging milk or eating yoghurt. It’ll keep your bones strong. Remember that your bone density declines after the age of 30. You need at least 200 milligrams daily, which you should combine with magnesium, or it simply won’t be absorbed.

Blueberries, strawberries and raspberries contain plant nutrients known as anthocyanidins, which are powerful antioxidants. Blueberries rival grapes in concentrations of resveratrol – the antioxidant compound found in red wine that has assumed near mythological proportions. Resveratrol is believed to help protect against heart disease and cancer.

Hot, spicy foods containing chillies or cayenne pepper trigger endorphins, the feel-good hormones. Endorphins have a powerful, almost narcotic, effect and make you feel good after exercising. But go easy on the lamb, pork and mutton and the high-fat, creamy dishes served in many Indian restaurants.

Some herbal supplements – from the popular St John's Wort and ginkgo biloba to garlic, ginger, ginseng and feverfew – can cause increased bleeding during surgery, warn surgeons. It may be wise to stop taking all medication, including herbal supplements, at least two weeks before surgery, and inform your surgeon about your herbal use.

Tomato is a superstar in the fruit and veggie pantheon. Tomatoes contain lycopene, a powerful cancer fighter. They’re also rich in vitamin C. The good news is that cooked tomatoes are also nutritious, so use them in pasta, soups and casseroles, as well as in salads.

The British Thoracic Society says that tomatoes and apples can reduce your risk of asthma and chronic lung diseases. Both contain the antioxidant quercetin. To enjoy the benefits, eat five apples a week or a tomato every other day.

Prevent low blood sugar as it stresses you out. Eat regular and small healthy meals and keep fruit and veggies handy. Herbal teas will also soothe your frazzled nerves.

Eating unrefined carbohydrates, nuts and bananas boosts the formation of serotonin, another feel-good drug. Small amounts of protein containing the amino acid tryptamine can give you a boost when stress tires you out.

We need at least 90 mg of vitamin C per day and the best way to get this is by eating at least five servings of fresh fruit and vegetables every day. So hit the oranges and guavas!

Folic acid should be taken regularly by all pregnant mums and people with a low immunity to disease. Folic acid prevents spina bifida in unborn babies and can play a role in cancer prevention. It is found in green leafy vegetables, liver, fruit and bran.

This vitamin, and beta carotene, help to boost immunity against disease. It also assists in the healing process of diseases such as measles and is recommended by the WHO. Good natural sources of vitamin A are kidneys, liver, dairy products, green and yellow vegetables, pawpaw, mangoes, chilli pepper, red sorrel and red palm oil.

Don’t have soft drinks or energy drinks while you're exercising. Stay properly hydrated by drinking enough water during your workout (just don't overdo things, as drinking too much water can also be dangerous).

While you might need energy drinks for long-distance running, in shorter exercise sessions in the gym, your body will burn the glucose from the soft drink first, before starting to burn body fat. Same goes for eating sweets.

Carbohydrates with a high glycaemic index, such as bread, sugar, honey and grain-based food will give instant energy and accelerate your metabolism. If you’re trying to burn fat, stick to beans, rice, pasta, lentils, peas, soya beans and oat bran, all of which have a low GI count.

You've probably heard the old adage that life's too short to stuff a mushroom. But perhaps you should consider the opposite: that life's simply too short NOT to focus on the simple tasks. By slowing down and concentrating on basic things, you'll clear your mind of everything that worries you.

Really concentrate on sensations and experiences again: observe the rough texture of a strawberry's skin as you touch it, and taste the sweet-sour juice as you bite into the fruit; when your partner strokes your hand, pay careful attention to the sensation on your skin; and learn to really focus on simple tasks while doing them, whether it's flowering plants or ironing your clothes.

When you stretch, ease your body into position until you feel the stretch and hold it for about 25 seconds. Breathe deeply to help your body move oxygen-rich blood to those sore muscles. Don't bounce or force yourself into an uncomfortable position.

Experts say weight training should be done first, because it's a higher intensity exercise compared to cardio. Your body is better able to handle weight training early in the workout because you're fresh and you have the energy you need to work it.

Conversely, cardiovascular exercise should be the last thing you do at the gym, because it helps your body recover by increasing blood flow to the muscles, and flushing out lactic acid, which builds up in the muscles while you're weight training. It’s the lactic acid that makes your muscles feel stiff and sore.

To improve your fitness quickly and lose weight, harness the joys of interval training. Set the treadmill or step machine on the interval programme, where your speed and workload varies from minute to minute. Build up gradually, every minute and return to the starting speed. Repeat this routine. Not only will it be less monotonous, but you can train for a shorter time and achieve greater results.

If your ankles, knees, and hips ache from running on pavement, head for the dirt. Soft trails or graded roads are a lot easier on your joints than the hard stuff. Also, dirt surfaces tend to be uneven, forcing you to slow down a bit and focus on where to put your feet – great for agility and concentration.

Rev up your metabolism by alternating your speed and intensity during aerobic workouts. Not only should you alternate your routine to prevent burnout or boredom, but to give your body a jolt.

If you normally walk at 6.5km/h on the treadmill or take 15 minutes to walk a km, up the pace by going at 8km/h for a minute or so during your workout. Do this every five minutes or so. Each time you work out, increase your bouts of speed in small increments.

Don’t eat carbohydrates for at least an hour after exercise. This will force your body to break down body fat, rather than using the food you ingest. Stick to fruit and fluids during that hour, but avoid beer.

Instead of flailing away at gym, enlist the help – even temporarily – of a personal trainer. Make sure you learn to breathe properly and to do the exercises the right way. You’ll get more of a workout while spending less time at the gym.

Don’t smoke and if you smoke already, do everything in your power to quit. Don’t buy into that my-granny-smoked-and-lived-to-be-90 crud – not even the tobacco giants believe it. Apart from the well-known risks of heart disease and cancer, orthopaedic surgeons have found that smoking accelerates bone density loss and constricts blood flow. So you could live to be a 90-year-old amputee who smells of stale tobacco smoke. Unsexy.

Find out your family history. You need to know if there are any inherited diseases prowling your gene pool. According to the Mayo Clinic, USA, finding out what your grandparents died of can provide useful – even lifesaving – information about what’s in store for you. And be candid, not coy: 25% of the children of alcoholics become alcoholics themselves.

Do regular self-examinations of your breasts. Most partners are more than happy to help, not just because breast cancer is the most common cancer among SA women. The best time to examine your breasts is in the week after your period.

Have a pap smear once a year. Not on our list of favourite things, but it’s vital. Cervical cancer kills 200 000 women a year and it’s the most prevalent form of cancer among black women, affecting more than 30 percent.

But the chances of survival are nearly 100 percent if it’s detected early. Be particularly careful if you became sexually active at an early age, have had multiple sex partners or smoke.

Recent research suggests that short-term (less than five years) use of HRT is not associated with an increase in the risk of breast cancer, but that using it for more than ten years might be. Breast cancer is detected earlier in women using HRT, as they are more alert to the disease than other women.

There are more than 240 allergens, some rare and others very common. If you’re a sneezer due to pollen: close your car’s windows while driving, rather switch on the internal fan (drawing in air from the outside), and avoid being outdoors between 5am and 10 am when pollen counts are at their highest; stick to holidays in areas with low pollen counts, such as the seaside and stay away from freshly cut grass.

If you’re allergic to your cat, dog, budgie or pet piglet, stop suffering the ravages of animal dander: Install an air filter in your home.

Keep your pet outside as much as possible and brush him outside of the home to remove loose hair and other allergens. Better yet, ask someone else to do so.

Swimming is the most asthma-friendly sport of all, but cycling, canoeing, fishing, sailing and walking are also good, according to the experts.

Asthma need not hinder peak performance in sport. 1% of the US Olympic team were asthmatics – and between them they won 41 medals.

Sun rays can burn even through thick glass, and under water. Up to 35% of UVB rays and 85% of UVA rays penetrate thick glass, while 50% of UVB rays and 75% of UVA rays penetrate a meter of water and wet cotton clothing.

Which means you’ll need sunscreen while driving your car on holiday, and water resistant block if you’re swimming.

Stay away from perfumed or flavoured suntan lotions which smell of coconut oil or orange if you want your skin to stay young. These lotions contain psoralen, which speeds up the ageing process. Rather use a fake-tan lotion. Avoid sun beds, which are as bad as the sun itself.

Sunscreen is unlikely to stop you from being sunburned, or to reduce your risk of developing skin cancer. That’s because most people don’t apply it properly, and stay in the sun too long.

The solution? Slather on sunscreen daily and reapply it often, especially if you’ve been in the water. How much? At least enough to fill a shot glass.

Having a good sob is reputed to be good for you. So is laughter, which has been shown to help heal bodies, as well as broken hearts. Studies in Japan indicate that laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body shake off allergic reactions.

End relationships that no longer work for you, as you could be spending time in a dead end. Rather head for more meaningful things. You could be missing opportunities while you’re stuck in a meaningless rut, trying to breathe life into something that is long gone.

Ask for assistance. Gnashing your teeth in the dark will not get you extra brownie points. It is a sign of strength to ask for assistance and people will respect you for it. If there is a relationship problem, the one who refuses to go for help is usually the one with whom the problem lies to begin with.

Showering or bathing in water that’s too hot will dry out your skin and cause it to age prematurely. Warm water is much better.

Apply moisturiser while your skin is still damp – it’ll be absorbed more easily. Adding a little olive oil to your bath with help keep your skin moisturised too.

Improve your circulation and help your lymph glands to drain by the way you towel off. Helping your lymph glands function can help prevent them becoming infected.

When drying off your limbs and torso, brush towards the groin on your legs and towards the armpits on your upper body. You can do the same during gentle massage with your partner.

More than three million South Africans suffer from type 2 diabetes, and the incidence is increasing – with new patients getting younger. New studies show this type of diabetes is often part of a metabolic syndrome (X Syndrome), which includes high blood pressure and other risk factors for heart disease.

More than 80% of type 2 diabetics die of heart disease, so make sure you control your glucose levels, and watch your blood pressure and cholesterol counts.

Stress and sex make bad bedfellows, it seems. A US survey showed that stress, kids and work are main factors to dampen libido. With the advent of technology that allows us to work from home, the lines between our jobs and our personal lives have become blurred.

People work longer hours, commutes are longer and work pervades all aspects of our lives, including our sexual relationships. Put nooky and intimacy on the agenda, just like everything else.

Rest heals the body and has been shown to lessen the risk of heart trouble and psychological problems.

Rhinoplasty (Nose Job) is a surgical procedure to improve the appearance of a human nose. There are thousands who have seek for rhinoplasty but not all of them look good after Result.

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