I like the content, but seriously I’m baffled as to how this is a science meme?
I would assume because it’s related to educating someone about why optical lenses can give an incredible amount of detail that digital just can’t compete with. But that’s just a guess and that might not even be enough for this forum
What’s a digital lens exactly?.. The only thing I can think of are in some point& shoot cameras and phones they have fake factorial zooms that are just cropping into the resolution.
i’m guessing it was a brain shortcut for a “digital zoom lens”
Pika is a real animal?
Gen 1 pokemon really are just funny colored real animals.
Voltorb, Muk, Magnemite, and Mr Mime would all like a word with you. Jynx, however, doesn’t mind.
“Ekans” is just “Snake” spelled backwards.
“Muk” is just…oh, oh god
Pika is pronounced “pie-kuh” generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for “sparking/sparkling” usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).
Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.
Not according to an interview by the creator of Pikachu, Atsuko Nishida:
“Since it was an Electric-type Pokémon, I thought ‘pika‘ [the expression of light flashing in Japanese].
Wtf is a Glumanda?
Bigger lens is better for wildlife photography and long distance shot. Animals scurry away when you try to get close, so it’s best to take a picture from the distance.
Casually using an amazing photo for a meme 👍
A top-shelf flex.
Enhance!
Shit. My ADHD brain doesn’t need another expensive hobby to hyperfixate on.
Wanna buy my setup? My hyperfixation ended.
Edit: but for real, we should introduce a ADHD-sharing network. My old fixation could be yours and vice versa. And I could tell you everything I learned, which is a lot!
I’m super into this idea. It’s got stuff! It’s got sharing! It’s got socializing! Seriously, what a rad idea
Let’s get hyper fixated on this idea and make it a … oh, I could start another hobby?
Can we get someone who can focus for longer than a week for project lead?
slides over What’s your setup?
Oh shit nevermind, my wife is coming!
Did she see anything?
That’s a great idea for a store front. And great for buying for those people that are hard to buy for, cause they have to figure out how the whole collection works lol
Look for a creative reuse store for the art and craft version of this! I’ve got so much art shit on the cheap. So at least it’s less expensive for it to sit in the drawer 🥲
Dont spend money on fancy new cameras, chances are the camera in your phone is already better than 90% of all cameras in history. Don’t drop a dime on equipment until you’ve hit the limits of the hardware you already have.
The picture above isn’t a picture of what an expensive camera can do - it’s a picture of what a good photographer can do, enhanced by specialty equipment. In the hands of a novice the equipment cannot produce pictures like this.
Wildlife photography really is mostly about the equipment though. And waiting/being in the right place obviously. But I can tell you from experience, a novice can absolutely produce pictures like this with the right equipment.
depends on your definition of novice.
a novice that is incredibly passionate and has been absorbing knowledge and experience at a fast pace? sure
a novice that just got a camera who’s shooting in .jpeg and has yet to hear of lightroom? (or alternative photo editing software) no
I did the math for another post and if I remember right the best telephoto lens built into a very recent phone camera has equivalency to around 120mm (anything else is just digital zoom and sometimes AI enhance).
It’s a relatively new gimmick, and it can do wildlife photography from afar (I got some good full body shots of deer recently), but it’s not quite as good as 600mm or the 1000mm from the other post.
how is it physically possible to fit a 120mm lens into a phone?
Like a periscope. It’s actually pretty cool.
SourceI said equivalency, so I don’t think that’s quite literal. That said, it does stick out a bit and is sunken into the phone itself by about a cm.
I’m not really sure how they get the rest of the way.
Yes, but there’s so much more to compositing a good shot than just focal length. I’m recommending to a new hobbyist to walk before they run. Framing, lighting, perspective - a cheap phone from 2019 off eBay is still better than what your grandparents had, and is better than cameras from 99% of human history.
Cheap phone from 2019 is better than medium format film wat?! Better than 35mm film?! I dont see it.
Well, went and did research (gasp!) and found I had been lied to! Or at least to say it’s complicated. My statement does have merit in that yes! The most popular cameras from 2019 average 25 megapixels, and that puts it neck and neck to several uses of film (frequently animated uses).
I still think my primary argument is unchanged, but the precise details of my statement are somewhat hyperbolic. In my defence, “better than film” has been the marketing for at least a decade and there are things that digital photography shine at.
Still, thank you for keeping me in check.
https://www.learnfilm.photography/the-resolution-of-film-negatives/
a cheap phone today is better than a digital camera from 15-20 years ago. but neither can stand up to analogue cameras that use film. we can extract 4k video from footage shot on film in the 80’s (any film footage really, but i mention 80’s because the music video for Last Christmas available on youtube in 4k is a wonderful example)
Phone cameras are great. Their compatibility with telephoto lenses is what sets them back.
They make telephoto lenses for phone case now
Sucky ones.
I get the point but there is no way my phone camera can capture the mountains reflected on the eyes of any animal even on full daylight
Phone cameras are good, yes, but their lenses are not. Even a cheap, used camera is better.
Can you afford to not get into photography, though?
600 mm lens for my camera costs as much as my whole year’s salary🫠
And it weighs more than 3 kg. No way I’m carrying that on a hike.
No way I’m carrying that on a hike.
Not with that attitude you won’t. Where’s that “can do” sipirit, buckaroo?
When you stare into pica, pica stares into you. Also sprach Zarathustra.
Laughs in micro fourthirds.
Listen buddy, I spent a lot of money on my full frame, and a lot of muscle lugging it around, so I’d appreciate it if you could keep your superior sensor to yourself.
What does it say, when it sneezes?
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Pi
Ka
Chuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
beautiful 🤌
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