New camera, slight addition
If you have a cameraphone, or other type of cheap camera, you may have accidentally taken a photo like the following one I took on my mobile…
Notice how the car in the shot appears to be skewed. That’s because some cheaper cameras, like the one in my phone, don’t take a photo immediately you click the button, they instead “scan” the image and actually take a photo one line of pixels at a time over a few milliseconds, meaning that if you (or the object you’re taking a photo of) are moving, then the image can become oddly distorted like that.
One thing I mentioned to include in my previous post, but… erm, forgot, is that my Canon A480 camera doesn’t have any trace of this “rolling shutter” phenomenon. I’m sure you’re looking at the screen, wondering what the hell I’m on about. Here’s an interesting article which I’m sure I’ve linked to before.
That is all.
June 14th, 2010 at 11:30:05 am
“And it works!” And you sounded supprised, just wastched the video in the
middle of an exam!
June 18th, 2010 at 8:03:38 am
Heh, I wasn’t surprised, just glad that the 16Gb memory card worked in the camera – the Acer couldn’t handle SDHC cards, so I could only get a 2Gb card for it. This one works fine with all of the 16Gb cards I have.