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when the children are little, parents often take heaps of pictures of their treasured ‘ankle-biters’ but often when the said ‘ankle-biters’ are grown up there are woefully few pictures of the parents for future generations to pore over.
also, if you are a lone traveller, photographs of yourself are
only available if a friendly stranger will take one for you.
I propose a camera that takes two photographs simultaneously; one of the view in the finder and one of the person taking the picture.
“smile” say cheese!
6mm Nikor lens
http://www.mir.com....llenses/6mmfish.htm
What a beautiful tool ! I want one.....can rent one for $400 USD a day..... [normzone, Nov 11 2004]
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"Mommy, why do all these reciprocal photos of you show this funny camera-ish gizmo stuck on the front of your face? Were you born that way?" |
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Interesting. The family album has very few photos of me, not because I am repellent to look at, but because I'm always the one with the camera. |
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Will the photograph of the photographer be anything other than a close-up of the person's eye? |
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digital should be ok but I imagine the old type of film cameras would capture that manic look that you got of the person loading/unloading the film! |
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Funny, I imagined some kind of twin camera setup: one aimed at the principal subject, and the second mounted on a Z-rod pointing back at the photographer, both snapping off images simultaneously. I imagined both Andy Warhol and David Hockney being very pleased with this invention. |
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Eh? Am I missing something? If you had a camera that could take a decent picture of the photographer, why is the friendly stranger involved? |
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How about a mirror on a stand that you set out a small distance in front of the camera? Alternatively, the mirror could be on an armature attached to the tripod mounting point on the bottom of the camera. |
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you know you have arrived when you have 2 auto-boners. |
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Well, they may just have disliked the idea. |
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The family album has very few photos of me, not because I am repellent to look at, but because I'm only the middle child. |
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This is a wonderful idea for digital cameras, [po]. |
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It's saddens me that as active a person as I am, there are no images of me doing anything. Crashing mountainbikes, falling off horses, jumping into the ocean, crashing motorcycles [not necessarily in chronological order] - no pictures. |
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Standing there waiting for someone to focus the camera? Lots of photos......I'm a photographer - there are lots of images of my friends swordfighting, etc. |
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So you get my vote if the camera can take a beating and capture my active moments. |
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//as active a person as I am//
//Crashing mountainbikes, falling off horses, jumping into the ocean, crashing motorcycles// |
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Err, the word is "clumsy", rather than "active", I think. |
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Well, it's not as if the words "coordinated" and "Norman" wind up in the same sentence on a regular basis. |
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But I was thinking of the more photo-worthy moments of my activities. And having survived my share of close calls, I can at least lay claim to some kind of ability to dodge, or a minor in charmed life, or something. |
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And as a member of the Jackie Chan fan club, yes, I do all my own stunts, and the outtakes can be pretty amusing. Remind me to tell you about taking my mountainbike down the stairs at work into the test area.....twice. Got it right the second time..... |
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Norman Schwarzkopf co-ordinated Operation Desert Storm fairly well. |
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Thanks, [UnaBubba}. Stormin' Norman is one of my better namesakes....I always run across people who remember Norman Bates. |
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His father, Also Norman, was one of the men who co-ordinated the US- and UK-backed coup to depose Mohammed Mossadegh from office and install the Shah of Persia, in about 1953. |
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It's a double-edged sword. |
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The co-ordinated attacks of the Norman invasion led to the fall of Britain to French marauders in 1066. |
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A fisheye lense would help if the picture
taker is really close up. + |
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Yeah. Nikon used to make a 220° fisheye that can see behind itself. I think that it is (was) beyond the budget of most vacation photographers. |
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I once shared a house with a photographer who had a 6mm Nikkor lens (220°). It weighed about 5kg/11lb and was worth about AUD$22,000, in 1988. It looked like some mad witch's crystal ball. Marty took some amazing photographs with it. |
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He also had a pair of Hasselblad cameras and an old Rolleiflex. |
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Marty told me he wants them back, or he'll press charges. |
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and then there was Norman Wisdom. still throwing himself about, I think. |
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I think he sold them, before moving back to Canada. He lives in Vancouver... well, Surrey, BC, these days. |
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If Marty does press charges, maybe the judge will hear his argument in camera. |
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Hey, po, I like this. My family album is light on photos of my wife, because she always seems to be the one wielding the camera. |
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that's a shame [thud] I hear that she's the pretty one after all. |
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<blows loud raspberry at po> |
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[thud] is a girl, too, [po]. She's a bit sensitive about her looks. |
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I'll get back to you later on that one, UB. The 5th rule applies. ;-) |
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