Comments on: (rt) Photography: iPhones as Leicas, Photoshop disasters, & more http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/09/rt-photography-iphones-as-leicas-photoshop-disasters-more.html Sun, 19 May 2013 21:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cris DeRaud http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/09/rt-photography-iphones-as-leicas-photoshop-disasters-more.html#comment-23038 Cris DeRaud Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:05:31 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=2830#comment-23038 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

]]> By: Allen http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/09/rt-photography-iphones-as-leicas-photoshop-disasters-more.html#comment-22994 Allen Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:21:03 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/?p=2830#comment-22994 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.

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