*** Binoculars Experiment ***

[Michael11945]

Rob, you have no idea how dangerous was your little experiment !

I just experimented a bit with the 950 by holding a 8x25 binoculars in
front of its lens. First attempts were handheld and obviously horrible.
Second attempt by placing both the binoculars and cam on book on a pillow
were slightly better. Still unhappy with the results I removed the rubber
eyepiece of the binoculars thus positioning the cam's lenses as close to
the bino's lens as possible. The result amazed me, you can actually look
into the livingroom of an appartment in a flat about 1 kilometer away.
You can even see the painting haning on the wall! At Night!

I think I start making my own telelens...

The original picture was highest res 1600x1200 preset shutter 1/1, f4.0,
auto iso (no noise!). The shot below here is a part of this shot,
original size, no touch ups or anything.

happy experimenting,

This shot is worrying, several obvious points:
1 it is of people's apartments at night
2 the people are clearly oblivious to your presence
3 do you stop when innocent of your activities they start to undress,
make love or do whatever?

worried Michael

Our sense of humour is obviously quite different, what was meant flipantly was taken seriously. I out of curiosity will ask a question once asked of me at a job interview 'What do you find funny?' even the last point 'worried Michael' wasn't taken a cue that what came before it might not have been written/said with an entirely straight face.

take the world more seriously, don't smile Michael

 

[Mike.]

Shudder, Excellent work rob, however to be pedantic

http://www.photopoint.com/copyright.html

"All photos are copyrighted material of the original photographers and
may not be used without their permission."

Anyhow I give you permission to do what you like with it,
adding an animiated gif of the person in the window waving a finger
would of been a nice touch...

BR,
Mike.

No Rob, I took that shot from the back yard - didnt really pay much
attention

Mike, maybe should or you will be BANNED from this forum...

 

[max]

I do tend to pull on both barrels upon the slightest hint of a Big Brother.
Too many people are willing to take your comments and act upon them seriously.

take the world more seriously, don't smile Michael

 

[Rob Wijhenke]

Mike, in my enthausiasm I completely overlooked your copyright statements. I didn't know you were competing for Photo of the Year' with this one...

Anyway, thanks a bundle for uour help in making this thread into a really nice one!

-rw