If the image is not a single circle when using binoculars something is wrong. It always slightly irritates me when you see that effect in TV programme's and films. Unless we're supposed to assume that being a hero means never have to adjust your inter-pupilary distance :)
I spy: Drug drops and foxy couples
When I was a child, mid-September was the time when the holiday photos turned up in the post from the developer. It seems I cannot shake this photographic jetlag in adulthood, as I have only just this week removed the SD card from my camera to look at what I shot in the south of France last month. I’m not very skilled in …
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Friday 14th September 2012 11:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
10x optical zoom?
That's rubbish.
These are supposed to be designed for seeing things that are far away. That's what binoculars do, right?
Yet a budget, compact DV camera has 32x optical zoom.
Digital zoom should always be disabled for capture purposes and it is basically just an unnecessary crop.
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Friday 14th September 2012 11:59 GMT Fuzz
Re: 10x optical zoom?
32x on a camcorder/camera is not the same thing as 32x on binoculars.
32x zoom on a camcorder means the telephoto end of the zoom lens is 32x the wide angle.
32x zoom on binoculars would mean that at maximum zoom objects viewed through the binoculars are 32x larger than they would be in real life.
The two things aren't really comparable.
Also in this situation the digital zoom is important, the imaging sensor is about 4 megapixels. HD video is around 2 megapixels, that gets you from 10x to 15x without any up-scaling.
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Friday 14th September 2012 11:42 GMT Anonymous Coward
"What it actually feels like, though, is a gigantic View-Master. Now that was a boy’s toy to reckon with."
Amazing coincidence ... just read an article elsewhere on a list of (US) kids favorite (non-electronic I assume) toys and while GI Joe was up at number 1 with Lego and Barbie close behind I was amazed to see ViewMaster up there in the top 10 ... didn't realize they were still around!
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Friday 14th September 2012 17:12 GMT Destroy All Monsters
Re: Scorpion Stare
Unfortunately all the companies able to implement it are now either owned by US or Chinese interests or else on the government black list. You gotta face the Elder Gods with bare hands.
Meanwhile, iPhones with frankly dangerous level of demonological glamour are being pushed at unsuspecting punters. What can one do?
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Friday 14th September 2012 16:41 GMT Robert Carnegie
Speaking of teenage boy dream fullfillment,
ITV4 is repeating the 60s "Batman" and they just got into episodes featuring Batgirl.
That's if Catwoman, and most of the other headline villains bringing along a floozy of the week, and Aunt Harriet, all passed you by. In which case you may be looking in the wrong place.
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Friday 14th September 2012 19:46 GMT John Savard
One Problem
I found one characteristic of these binoculars, visible from the picture of them, to be disappointing.
Instead of the two objective lenses being as far apart from each other as they can be placed in the case, they're close together in the middle. This reduces the degree to which distant objects - what one normally looks at with binoculars - manifest any stereoscopic effect.
Of course, it can be argued that distant objectives cause "modelling", an illusion that one is looking at a small-scale model of the real world, instead of at large distant objects, but the point of using binoculars is lost if the two images given to one's two eyes are so nearly identical that one can't perceive any differences in distance in the scene one sees through the stereo effect.
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Saturday 15th September 2012 19:47 GMT keithpeter
Re: How does it far aganst the Night?
I suspect not, plus the noise fromthe ccds might be too great. Most astrophotgraphy using ccd detectors hung off telescopes uses frame stacking (signal adds, noise is different in each frame and tends not to add, so s/n ratio gain).
Don't take my word for it though. I'm one of those strange people who think that the royal couple should be left alone.
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