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Billion Pixel Pictures from your point and shoot (not joking).
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Billion Pixel Pictures from your point and shoot (not joking).
Eric Stevens wrote in
: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...gapan-pictures .html Eric Stevens Crap. |
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Billion Pixel Pictures from your point and shoot (not joking).
On Thu, 28 May 2009 20:38:23 -0500, Rich wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote in : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-pictures.html Eric Stevens Crap. Maybe, but see http://www.gigapan.org/index.php http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/gigapan.html http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/01/post-4/ Eric Stevens |
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Billion Pixel Pictures from your point and shoot (not joking).
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:11:22 -0700 (PDT), Rich
wrote: On May 30, 1:44*pm, Evan Platt wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2009 12:30:27 +1200, Eric Stevens wrote: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...gigapan-pictur... There was a great site with the Obama photos, and comments such as "Look! A two headed monster!" and a close up of a body with two heads from the photograph.. I've often marveled at how people have managed to do panoramas and yet have avoided any obvious sign that it was a stitch-job, especially when there are active things like humans or cars in the scene. The reason I said "crap" about the story was that the idea that some automated shooting platform is some kind of technological miracle is incredibly silly. Case in point, we've had amateur telescopes that can home in on and track objects with several arc-second accuracy for decades. What I do wonder is if anyone in the distant past produced something like a mechanical device (no electronics) that allowed this? I saw a 40 year old camera that had a wind-up motor drive the other day, I thought that was pretty nifty. I remember the 'Robot' camera from 1954 which used a wind-up drive. According to http://www.vintagephoto.tv/robotjr.shtml the first Robot was made in 1934 - 75 years ago. Eric Stevens |
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Billion Pixel Pictures from your point and shoot (not joking).
"What I do wonder is if anyone in the distant past produced
something like a mechanical device (no electronics) that allowed this? " Don't google panoramic camera. Just keep wondering. John |
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Billion Pixel Pictures from your point and shoot (not joking).
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:11:22 -0700 (PDT), Rich
wrote: On May 30, 1:44*pm, Evan Platt wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2009 12:30:27 +1200, Eric Stevens wrote: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...gigapan-pictur... There was a great site with the Obama photos, and comments such as "Look! A two headed monster!" and a close up of a body with two heads from the photograph.. I've often marveled at how people have managed to do panoramas and yet have avoided any obvious sign that it was a stitch-job, especially when there are active things like humans or cars in the scene. The reason I said "crap" about the story was that the idea that some automated shooting platform is some kind of technological miracle is incredibly silly. I don't think the advance is the automated shooting platform. Its the ability to later stitch together the photographs taken from that platform to make an image with more detail than any single image. Case in point, we've had amateur telescopes that can home in on and track objects with several arc-second accuracy for decades. What I do wonder is if anyone in the distant past produced something like a mechanical device (no electronics) that allowed this? Clockwork drives were becoming 'common' in the early 19th century. I saw a 40 year old camera that had a wind-up motor drive the other day, I thought that was pretty nifty. Eric Stevens |
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