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Cameraphones, Binoculars and Arty Landscapes

Posted on January 15, 2008
Filed Under Multimedia, Personal Posts |

Been playing around with the camera on the N95 recently with some arty stuff alongside keeping an eye out for the unusual (and props to that blogging man Charles again for Photogamer), which lead me to grab a monoscope the last time I was over at my Mum and Dad’s. Some scenery first, the view from my old bedroom window…

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The smoke on the horizon is worth pointing out - that’s Mossmoran, a joint chemical plant for Shell and Esso/Exxon. Zooming in on the N95 and you get a closer look at it…

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Which would normally be the best you can manage. But, so my thinking goes, what happens if you were to look through something that magnifies (just like I would do as a kid, which incidentatly would probably get me arrested nowadays). Some balancing and moving around and the unzoomed N95 (to keep the best CCD results) comes up with this…

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Push the optics all the way, and you get this delightful spy-like shot…

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Click through on any to get through to Flickr. And no, no reason to this post beyond I thought these were nice!

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One Response to “Cameraphones, Binoculars and Arty Landscapes”

  1. Linda on January 15th, 2008 16:15

    Ha! Desperately trying to find a bird to identify in those pix. What’s the power on the monoscope? (I see a whole new birding ID-capture in this…)
    -L.

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