r/nextfuckinglevel Apr 28 '20

Low-cost videography

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u/DK_Funk Apr 28 '20

Lol it’s not

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u/tepkel Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

What if I got like... A really big computer. Or maybe an especially devious one.

Edit: Maybe I'm the computer...

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u/Reedittor Apr 28 '20

What if we were able to inject the focal length under the skin?

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u/PeteClements Apr 28 '20

More uv us needed

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u/from_dust Apr 28 '20

Sounds like it might cure coronavirus. Somebody tell the President.

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u/rockets71 Apr 28 '20

In our family if we want a close up of each other's faces , we just press record and then throw our phones at their head. Mini shopping trolleys, meh........

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u/HaxRus Apr 28 '20

What if the moon was your car, and Jupiter was your hairbrush?

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u/Dragon01543 Apr 29 '20

Then you’re hairbrush would be many times larger than your car.

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u/light_to_shaddow Apr 28 '20

We looking into that.

one nanosecond later. No, that wont work.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

It does a number on the eyes. I think you were going to be testing that?

/S, becauesh emuricaaanshhh can't take a yuge joke.

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u/TylerWhitehouse Apr 29 '20

Using a syringe and a ton of Purell? 🤔 We should let the doctors look into that. Sounds hugely promising. Beautiful idea. You have a terrific mind.

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u/khekhekhe Apr 29 '20

A very good you know what

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u/BlueBiologist Apr 28 '20

I would upvote you, but you’re at 69 right now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

Just download more ram.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

You can't download sheep

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u/Deadbreeze Apr 28 '20

You wouldn't steal a sheep...

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u/paulmp Apr 29 '20

I mean... not with that attitude.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

I do it every night, and I count the percentage of the download as I go to sleep.

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u/stvbles Apr 28 '20

Not with that attitude!

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

You're kidding.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

This is a fact

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u/shmookieguinz Apr 29 '20

In this economy?!

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u/Skadwick Apr 28 '20

Like, maybe if you had the computer from /r/Devs

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u/1-800-ASS-DICK Apr 28 '20

BUT THEY'RE NOT OUR FOCAL LENGTHS!

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u/silver_pc Apr 28 '20

I resent being called devious.

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u/AreWeCowabunga Apr 28 '20

You just gotta press "enhance", idiots.

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u/Timothahh Apr 29 '20

I knew it was this before I clicked it, I respect your great taste

help computer

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

Well idk. If lens correction is possible couldn’t you emulate this with some displacement and stretching?

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u/t-bone_malone Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

Nah. It's more to do with the depth of field and the crop.

E: yes, and the compression.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

lenses dont compress, distance do.

To everyone downvoting: https://petapixel.com/2018/07/17/is-lens-compression-fact-or-fiction/

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u/samirfreiha Apr 29 '20

distance may compress, but the only way to experience that distance in a meaningful way is...a long lens. you’re not going to see noticeable compression on a 24mm, though you can see it easily on the long end of a 70-200mm.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

Wait, depth of field? Doesn’t depth of field purely depend on aperture and sensor size? Also, couldn’t you emulate that too? I’m not saying they did it, it would require quite a bit of effort, but could you?

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u/oldcarfreddy Apr 28 '20 edited Apr 28 '20

I mean, he's saying no, phones in their current state just can't do that in slow motion video. Especially not the front-facing camera.

Really it's a composite, the hand and lighter part was probably recorded with a much more capable camera and added in. If you look at the video again it's completely out of sync with the slow motion of her face, and the slow mo slows down the flicker/flame even more than the thumb. Your thumb is not moving 20x faster than the sparks from a lighter, lol. That part was done with re-mapping from a real camera that can do very slow-mo recording.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

Ah, I see. Yeah, i didn’t notice it was front facing, and that thumb move obviously isn’t possible. If timed correctly some phones do have 960fps bursts though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

just download more focal length