science – YLovePhoto https://www.ylovephoto.com/en Intrigued by photography Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:20:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 158 lenses = 1 photo camera https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2010/03/15/158-lenses-1-photo-camera/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:05:21 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=5121 Associate professor Yojiro Ishino and his students at the Nagoya Institute of Technology obtained an official recognition of their achievement when the Guinness World Records certified them as holding the world record for a camera with largest number of lenses.

Record camera with 158 lenses
Record camera with 158 lenses

Usually, a DSLR has 1 lens attached. Some 3D cameras have two.

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This piece of technological achievement has four rows of 39 or 40 lenses allowing it to take 3D images of complex objects like a flame using Computed Tomography (CT) technology.

As could be expected the lenses are quite small (2 cm in diameter, less than an inch) and cheap, and mounted on an aluminum structure. It reminds me of the 120 photo camera structure created for the slow motion “bullet time” sequences: Many photo cameras triggered in sequence. Same idea but for a smaller object and a much more affordable price.

]]> Wildlife photographers, shut up! https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/08/19/wildlife-photographers-shut-up/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:15:48 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=3470 It has been revealed by a scientific study that ecotourists (and certainly wildlife photographers like you and me are falling in this category) are actually much more disturbing to wildlife than initially supposed. As written by New Scientist, “The sound of even a quiet conversation caused the birds [hoatzins in the Amazonian forest] to begin clucking and defecating – a common defense response – at longer approach distances than for quiet approaches.”

So, if you want to make a good photo, if you want to limit your impact on Nature when shooting photos, forget about speaking, concentrate on the image and think about not frightening your models. Shouldn’t that be the a natural way to approach wildlife photography?

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Creative Commons License photo credit: Veronique Debord

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