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Topic Started: Dec 5 2007, 06:29 PM (35,896 Views)
TheDeepDark
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Basically, it's a camera that's designed so the image in the viewfinder is the same thing the camera itself is taking a picture of.

Either way, there are so many things I control about the camera's function that it's rather frightening what I can do - and the images are some 12 Mb in size Each.
I haven't hardly Taken pictures with it, cuz it feels like somebody who knows what they're doing better than I ought to be behind the thing.
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Elystriana
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Oh, I see.
Wow, that is...would be so fun to play with.
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Snofox Kari
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i'm still learning all the functions of my camera too XD
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TheDeepDark
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Frightening, but fun yes. ^_^
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Snofox Kari
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i find taking picutes of bright objects (like the moon) are better with low ISO speed (you do need a tripod or something to keep the camera super steady, though)

dunno if it works on the sun, too...haven't tested many sun pictures yet
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TheDeepDark
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Yeah - the tripod in my 'kit' was broke so still waiting for the replacement there.
Got a nine-stop lens filter that lets me get some decent shots just on auto though.
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Snofox Kari
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ah...yeah that auto stuff can get in the way at times D;
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Elystriana
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I just noticed towr's post count in 650c. What's with the 'c'?
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towr
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c = 12 :pirate:

Actually my postcount jumps around seemingly randomly.
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TheDeepDark
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Keeping us on our toes.

Wait, base twelve? Really?
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towr
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No, if that were the case, b (11) would be the highest digit. But aside from that it's also a bit different from a regular base N positional system. For one thing, every digit changes when my postcount increases.
For example, from 5679 to 718a to 3717 to (0)860. And the system I use here has a fixed number of digits (always 4, except when there are leading zeroes), so I'll have to switch to something else eventually. It could be easily extended to have an arbitrary number of digit, however.
I've also scrambled the digits in every position, so in the first position, you will actually always have 7 following 5 and 3 following 7, but in the second position 7 follows 1, and in the last 7 follows a. I didn't feel like inventing characters to substitute them. Besides, it's more confusing this way (and apparently took a year for anyone to notice) :P

The nice thing is that there isn't an identifiable first or last number. Because every digit changes each step, you can't tell (or mistake) which number stands for 0. So it would be perfectly suited to number the pages in a book that has a completely circular story (to the point where you can start reading on any page and continue reading until the previous one without losing the plot).
Well, ok, it would make it pretty difficult to look up any particular page number, because it's hard to judge distance between numbers, but you can't have everything. (Although, truthfully, I haven't examined the underlying mathematics to see whether there is an easy way to judge distance between numbers; so there might be.)
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Either way, serious math geek cred. Probably to programmers too...

Nice
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Elystriana
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Very interesting...although you kinda lost me with all the numbers-switching-thing. But- it's been like that for a year? Though I suppose that's not too surprising, considering I don't really see any need look at the post counts, and I wouldn't notice anything wierd unless (like then) I saw a letter in it.
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Snofox Kari
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he must have changed it back D: i see no more letters ;c
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towr
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There's about a 30% chance there's a letter in my postcount (43/143). So you just picked a bad time :P
After my next post, it'll have a "b" in the end.

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Very interesting...although you kinda lost me with all the numbers-switching-thing.
The first number cycles through the sequence 7,3,0,1,2,6,4,5
The second through 5,0,6,1,7,8,4,3,2
The third through 6,2,3,a,9,4,0,5,7,8,1
The fourth through 2,b,1,5,c,6,9,a,7,0,4,3,8
Because none of the lengths (8,9,11,13) share a common factor, you get a new combination each step, until you've made 8*9*11*13 = 10296 steps, when you get back where you started.

So, knowing that, and using the Chinese remainder theorem, you can calculate the actual postcount :P
(Although if, for whatever reason the postcount was of any interest to anyone, there's at least two easier ways to find it: turn of javascript or look in the members list.)

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But- it's been like that for a year?
Probably longer. Remember when my postcount used to count down? I changed to this around the time I hit 0.
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