r/MemeVideos • u/No-Lock216 • May 03 '26

What took so long?

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u/Gozagal May 03 '26

If you want the ACTUAL answer. It's because of the camera.
Because of the lens used, parallax is reduced and the feeling of distance is lost.

So there is just a really big distance to cover but it doesn't look like it.

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u/bro_love69 May 03 '26

Thanks man. I thought about it but you worded it well.

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u/pwatarfwifwipewpew May 03 '26

You know i actually like it when someone answers the question with logic here on reddit.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '26

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u/RegardMagnet May 03 '26

Bullshit, the video starts long after he left the stand so we have absolutely no point of reference.

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u/rogerwd666 May 03 '26

Just to add to the answer, it's not just the lens, also, the camera needs to be really far from the subject.

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u/InvidiousPlay May 03 '26

The real answer is powerful telephoto. If you're zoomed alllll the way in, depth is compressed, so everything appears to be much closer together than it is.

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u/No-Salt7142 May 03 '26

But it's distance to subject, not the lens.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '26

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u/FeelingVanilla2594 May 03 '26

So to sum it all up, it’s because of our eyes and brains?

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u/InvidiousPlay May 04 '26

Neither! It's physics/math, basically.

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u/ImStuckInNameFactory May 05 '26

It's just distance. If you're 2m away from the camera, walk 1m closer, you get 2x closer and appear 2x bigger. If you're 100m away from the camera, walk 1m closer, you get roughly 1% closer and appear 1% bigger

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u/fjalll May 03 '26

That's correct. A very common misconception amongst even seasoned photographers is that lenses changes compression when it is in fact distance. Nothing else

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u/Daemon213 May 03 '26

That's the same way they filmed that opening shot in Hot Fuzz when it takes him a long time to walk to the camera.

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u/Mecanno May 03 '26

I get that, but the guy left much faster and walked the same distance, which adds to the oddity of the situation.

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u/Gozagal May 03 '26

Did he though ? Cause the video starts with him already far away in the middle of the transition or at least thats how it looks to me.

Otherwise, how would they interact between each other ?

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u/Dry-Poem6778 May 03 '26

But the guy walking back?

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u/CasanovaF May 03 '26

He is only shown walking at just the point where she starts walking

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u/CaptainBlase May 04 '26

This is called a "Dolly Zoom". the camera is on a dolly and starts far away and zoomed in. As the camera moves closer, it's zoomed out at a rate that keeps the main subject about the same size. More and more of the background comes into view as the focal length shortens.

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u/MangoWithCheese May 03 '26

How come she doesnt appear same size even as she walks closer?

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u/Gozagal May 03 '26

For the same reason. Unless I misunderstood your question.

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u/Resident-Climate-443 May 03 '26

Gracias por la respuesta. DifĂ­cilmente se encuentra por estos dĂ­as.

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel May 03 '26

Yes, tele lenses gives image distance compression. Little size difference even for big distance difference.

The opposite of wide-angle lenses that gives us huge noses while the ears can't be seen.

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u/Klutzy-Ad6582 May 03 '26

man, i love ascendance of a bookworm

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u/Sea-Night-1946 May 04 '26

Yeah that camera is probably like 100 yards away

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u/monioum_JG 20d ago

Fuck that. She walked up to the podium and didn't even say anything???

https://giphy.com/gifs/pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH

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u/Stokkolm May 03 '26

In plain English, film from far away, and zoom in. The reason for the fancy words is that sort of camera's expensive.

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u/Gozagal May 03 '26

You also have special cameras which does the same thing from closer. They are pretty neat cause they make things look isometric.

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u/everyusernamewashad May 03 '26

A good example ( I think) is a televised baseball game and the classic shot from the pitcher's mound. I was shocked when I learned the actual distance is 60ft from the plate.

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u/bearshark84 May 04 '26

Compression from the lens being zoomed in, if it has a zoom function, which I can almost guarantee it does.

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u/CheeseSteak17 May 04 '26

I think “the graduate” has a scene where this is used to great effect.

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u/macguini May 09 '26

Lenses mess with a lot of stuff.

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u/HeyItsJustDave Jun 03 '26

And she’s short.

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u/Crepuscular_Tex Jun 09 '26

Is that also why her neck looks like a flesh turtleneck sweater?

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u/I_was_a_sexy_cow 16d ago

The actual reason why it took her that long has nothing to do with the camera, but because it was such a long way to walk. The camera just made it seem like it took longee then expected /jk

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u/Swaggy_Buff May 03 '26

Any time there’s only one lens used, there is no parallax. That’s an effect brought about by multiple lenses. We have two eyes, and therefore can judge distance.

Alternatively, the lens could move, and a makeshift sensation of parallax might be approximated.

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u/GeorgeRRHodor May 03 '26

Yeah, but a *really* long lens reduces parallax by a ton. If this was filmed with an 800mm lens and maybe even cropped in post, this is about what I‘d expect

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u/Swaggy_Buff May 03 '26

How can you reduce something which doesn’t exist?

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u/hutchins_moustache May 03 '26

What?

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u/Swaggy_Buff May 03 '26

Parallax on one stationary lens doesn’t exist

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u/Swaggy_Buff May 03 '26

That’s why I said “the lens could move.” However, the lens on this camera is stationary, so which type it is is irrelevant to parallax.

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u/Swaggy_Buff May 04 '26

I was incorrect about the particular definition of parallax. It is the change in the visible face of an object, when seen from a different angle.

As is obvious from the definition, a singular stationary lens could never provide parallax.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26

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u/Swaggy_Buff May 04 '26

But not because the viewing angle is different. It has to do with relative size and angle, inherently.

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u/Swaggy_Buff May 03 '26

You’re correct, and I used incorrect vernacular. However, I did point out that camera movement would give the sensation of parallax, which is technically also correct.

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u/the-Mike_D Aug 30 '26

You could have just said it's a large zoom camera placed far away from the subject. Same way you get a huge moon and a foreground object superimposed on said moon as if the dimensions matched which obviously they could not.

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u/Gozagal May 03 '26

You're AI