Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Geese and More Picture Viewing!


I finally captured some pictures of geese while driving around from my car and was satisfied with the results.  I didn’t get any pictures with them at a lake or some location with water but the fact that it was convenient to just roll up and start clicking away was perfect.  I also took some pictures of some cats and some other random things not from my car.  This was like a new thing to just start randomly taking pictures from my car.  I thought to myself that all I need was some binoculars and I might be considered a stalker.  I guess some rope, shovel, map, some plastic wrap, and a baseball bat wouldn’t be a good idea either.   It was like guerilla photography from my car and I also started to feel like a member of the paparazzi.  The weather outside was still cold and now it was the middle of February I felt like the winter came by so fast that I was going to go crazy.  I went to the local wine, beer, and spirits store around the corner and a game shop and displayed the camera to a bunch of friends.  I took some pictures of them and they were all amazed by the screen of the camera and it was the first time that they were in 3D.  Some of them loved the technology even with having no prior understanding of it, some were skeptical about the 3D revolution and others just flat out became overly excited.  It was kind of fun showing off this new toy before it becomes normal like cell phones.  I liked looking at my friends in 3D because it felt a little more realistic because you get a little more immersed when looking at these 3D Pictures.  This is the same intended effect that movies in 3D seem to try to produce and I know that “Avatar” definitely accomplished that.  I remember when I went to see “Avatar” in 2D a few weeks ago that It was torture knowing what the 3D was like and not being able to see it in 3D made me almost want to leave the theater and walk into a 3D viewing, but I did not do this because I noticed the colors were a little different.  The colors seemed richer and slightly brighter in the non-3D version.  I remember reading articles that the Dolby 3D projection had better or different color variations then other digital 3D projection systems.  I had no way of validating this because I wasn’t sure what kind of Projection Systems that I was seeing but I know that they used RealD glasses (excluding the IMAX version).  It might have been Sony or Texas Instrumental based projection equipment, however I never asked the theater employees about the projectors because it didn’t seem important at the time.  I wasn’t really a fan of projectors as far as the home consumer market is concerned, but to think about a dual projector or even a 4K projector was always mind boggling.  I started wondering about showing my pictures to people again and the only way that I could truly show them was with the screen of the camera.  There had to be a better and somewhat portable way to achieve this so I decided that it was time to investigate this even more thoroughly!

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