Still in little-camera quandary after giving sister in law my Canon S100. As no one will recall (cos hopefully you do not care, and only look at the pictures on this blog), I was going to buy the new Sony RX100. Then James was jealous, but finally he decided to wait for the rumored (sic) Pansonic LX7 to replace his LX5. This somehow left me with my Sony TX10, which has a firmware issue that makes me want to smash it to the ground and stomp on it, only I don't bother since being a "robust" camera that might not kill it. Picked up my Sony TX5 again, which is nice, and worked for a week (see recent posts on this blog for examples!) before its image stabilisation fault resurfaced.
So what to do? I thought I'd interrogate the man and woman on the street...
Left to right, top to to bottom: "getting the shot" DSLR style, NEX+adapter+Canon manual focus super-geek style (woot!), pinky P&S style, colour coordinated phone camera style, "does he realise he's photographing me?" style, backseat driver shooting style, shoot without looking style, and his 'n' hers shooting style x2.
But then I found image making enlightenment...
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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 7/02/2012 04:16:00 PM
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And where the two are both taking roughly the same picture -- I've found I can put pairs like that into a stereo view after the fact. Of course it's like a stereo view in which the distance between your eyes is rather large -- everything in the picture has the size perspective of something seen on a model train table, scaled down considerably. But the accidental stereo views found that way are sometimes striking.
And you don't need identical cameras.
ps -- and when the Terra and Aqua satellites happen to photograph the same location minutes apart in time, and a few hundred miles apart laterally you also get fortuitous greatly enhanced stereo of the Earth and cloud layers.
I've wondered if the atmosphere scientists could use information from that kind of imagery.
Psst -- why not surprise James with one of these?
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=panasonic%20lx7&rh=n%3A3760911%2Ck%3Apanasonic%20lx7&page=1
As you might see from several pics, a hairdryer isn't high on my wish list :-)
(not sure if it's the same for you, but the only thing that comes up on that web page for me is this)
Possibly cruel to link this, but how could I not? :)
Most of the readers here are no doubt too young to know, but Hank should know this: the Apollo astronauts got their smashing stereo shots of Lunar rocks by clicking their Hasselblads twice in quick succession from adjacent locations...
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020713.html
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