Very "complexifying" apps on Google App store!
So I recently took out my iPod from what has seemed literally like a decade
long hibernation, only to download a very perplexing app; long exposure
camera (or something like that anyways). It really got me thinking as to the
process of creating long exposure photography; whereas usually, with an
SLR, you’d take a single, seamless and continuous, long exposure, with the
iPod it worked to some extent, albeit the resulting exposure was made from
combining still video frames at 30 frames per second, which meant that the
resulting photo had gaps in between each exposure, so for example, if you
move a light source too quickly (all too easily done) in front of the iPod’s camera,
the resulting streak(s) of light aren’t continuous, but instead dashed. Although
I’ve got to admit that this is a dissapointment, I still think that it’s intriguing that
there’s continuous live view during the capture of the exposure! That’s
something that I don’t think that any regular camera aimed at photography can
do, albeit maybe unless it’s tethered to another device! Think about having
such a feature on an SLR! The implications could run wild, and you could view
the live image on an external monitor while doing light painting, and over time,
gain experience which could become addicting to do. 30 Frames per second just doesn’t
seem to make it when it comes to getting seamless exposures. Perhaps something more like 1000 frames
per second, or maybe many time faster, would be practical. For comparison, when I do a long exposure
on an SLR, it’s all just one single exposure, which is essentially made up of an unlimited amount of
frames, even though that’s not an exact description, you should get the point. Just you wait until Apple or Android come out with an app-oriented camera, specifically oriented
towards professional photography; then there might very likely be only one word
for such a concept: WOAH! And besides this, I made up my own word, “perplexifying”, because there isn’t really any other word
that could describe the clusterfuck of complexity that I’m trying to explain.
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