- Here’s a gorgeous Palestinian kid-with-sparkler image. The rest of gallery is good, too.
- How-to: Make your iPhone 4 look “like a beautiful old Leica.” You can also see Photojojo’s tips on How To Make Your Cell Phone Look Like Your Favorite Camera.
- Photoshop gone wrong:
- Bloomingdale’s really approved this retouching job? Seriously? [Via John Lin]
- Credit an Egyptian newspaper for coining “performing surgery” to explain away their manipulation of the news. [Via Harris Fogel]
- Check out this fun little SLR-shaped USB thumb drive.
Actually, SLR cameras have the same kind of side-effects, although much less so nowadays. Look at old shots of racing cars, and you’ll see the wheels looking weirdly elongated (which coincidentally imparts a sense of speed). This effect was used subsequently by cartoonists, since the public had seen so many elongated wheels.
It’s caused by a focal plane shutter, which (typically) moves sideways across the film plane. Since there are two curtains, one which opens and a second one which closes soon after, at higher shutter speeds you have, in effect, a traveling slit, scanning across the film. The subject is moving during the scan, so the image gets stretched or squeezed accordingly.
These high-speed digital scan images are much more interesting though, and it’s an effect that is harder to achieve with the 1/8000 shutter speeds of modern SLRs.
Hi John,
Thought you would be interested in this along the same vein.
Dot: The world’s smallest stop-motion film made using a cameraphone and a microscope… and a tiny doll no bigger than a pencil nib. Sept 22
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1314190/Dot-worlds-smallest-film-using-cameraphone-microscope.html