Posts by M Anton

Sod the planes, wot about the camera gear?

Nearly 50 comments and no one's asked how / why the author was tooled up with an £11,000 lens - http://bit.ly/19ovuFI

Enquiring minds would like to know

These sorts of images take a phenomenal amount of work

I shoot 360's panos for fun and even basic 8 shot spherical panos can take a lot of effort to look good.

I've only done a few 100Mp panos tests and these have taken some decent effort to set up. Bright sunlight is a contrast nightmare so cloudy days give much more consistent exposures and don't even go there with accounting for subject movement and depth of view/field.

Yes it's a shame there are obvious stitching artefacts but that is a serious amount of images and data to crunch. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a solid week's worth of stitching time.

This pano of the 2013 Superbowl 'only' had 220 images - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130204/super-bowl-xlvii-gigapan/.

On a connected note, have a look at this article on shooting ultra hi res artwork - http://factum-arte.com/eng/technology/clauss.asp . The £1K camera body would have been the cheapest bit of that platform.

One of the best ones from Mr T

And for more CSi image manipulation bolx, this made me chuckle a few months ago; - http://www.nuk3.com/gallery/comedy/1456/CSI-Enhance-Numberplate.html

The British Army tried this in Berlin in the 80's

Granted it wasn't dazzle' schemes but blocks of urban colours applied to various vehicles.

Chieftain tanks appear to be the most popular subject to get painted.

http://www.emlra.org/articles/berlin_brigade.htm and here's a shot of one I took in Bovington in 2008 http://www.pbase.com/m1ke_a/image/99547512.jpg

+ only really applies to people daft enough to start their GPS at their front door

and thus make a prospective burglar's job even easier.

Oh hang on, is that not common sense?

Do Yorkshire folk have no sense of humour?

Cos here in Sussex we have the hamlets of Cocking and Filching (which aren't that geographically close btw)

Oh and there's a hill in Cornwall called Brown Willy.

So are these muppets...

also going to sue Panoramio, sorry Google for the pictures that have been posted on there by members of the public who subscribe to service? Oh hang on..................

One of the cars went past me this morning in Crawley but I didn't have an opportunity to 'wave' as it went by ;-)

I reckon....

Simon Ball has this spot on and I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of the boats was also trying to get hull shots for the bragging tights.

Oh and another copy of "The Bluffer's Guide to Media Hysteria" for me too.

Another missed point?

Folk have commented on the likely issues faced with hitting (small) projectiles but I suspect this sort of tech will be deployed against decent sized non spinning objects, such as planes and cruise missiles.

I believe the Patriot missile system was originally intended as an anti aircraft platform which was why it's F&C systems had problems against the /ballistic/ SCUD missiles.

Trying to accurately target a very small and rapid object is probably just a big a challenge.

'Special' as in special needs

As a keen amateur photographer I've had a couple of 'discussions' with specialcommunitysupportjobsworths.

A lot of this unfortunately boils down to people either on their on little power trip, or being woefully out of their depth on stuff they should know as part of their job.

You'd like to think common sense would prevail but unfortunately we're lumbered with this nanny state mentality which is allegedly for "our own good".

Had this conversation with Lester....

a couple of years back when El Reg were running T shirts with 'Unix Practical Terrorism' written on them and a cartoon alarm clock cum bomb picture.

Pathetic