At $650 US to buy one, it will be a similar cult to the Leica one, I'd say.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > The ultimate "spray and pray" approach. I'm sure it's bound to get > some nice shots. Obviously not for me; taking the shots is my hobby. > I doubt it will supplant cell phone cameras, and most people are not > going to want to go through all those shots. Could be a cult thing, I > guess. > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Don't know what I really think of this: >> http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/09/24/omg-life-creates-autographer-wearable-automatic-camera >> but I saw it shortly after viewing this neat instructional video >> http://cinematography-howto.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-time-lapse-video-with-dslr-and-intervalometer-269678/ >> and it gave me an idea: >> >> It would be interesting to wear the Pentax Q around one's neck and >> just have it set to take images with its built-in intervalometer while >> walking around the streets or something (hands-off). People would >> pretty much ignore a camera that doesn't have the wearer's hands on >> it. This idea would work for any camera with a built-in intervalometer >> (like the K-5) but it think it probably becomes a little more >> problematic (in multiple ways) to handle the larger the camera in this >> way. The built-in intervalometer can take up to 999 images, so you'd >> have to do the math to determine how often to have it take a photo for >> the length of time you wanted it to "run" (also your card capacity and >> whether you were shooting JPEG or RAW/+). >> >> Another (related) idea would be to use this to create time-lapse video >> from still shots. Imagine walking through a crowded rush hour city >> sidewalk and into a cafe shooting this way at 1 image every 3 seconds. >> That's 20 frames per minute and if you put that together (for example >> in QuickTime Pro) at 20 fps you have a 1 minute of real life = 1 >> second of your time-lapse video. 1 hour of real life = 1 minute of >> time-lapse video. >> >> Think this is dumb or does it have merit? >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
