New Camera

[deguspice]

I got a new camera (Sony WX1) and I've been playing with it. One nifty feature of the camera is that it'll make panorama shots. You just press the shutter, and then pan the camera.

A normal shot looks like this (a barn in Vermont).

From Random

But if you try to confuse the camera and follow a moving object (Ann riding a horse), you get a picture like this:

From Random

Comments

Re: Reminds me of Nude Descending A Staircase

[c1.livejournal.com]

Does the panorama insist on up->down, left->right, or can you reverse the direction?

DP Review is indeed a great resource. When I spec'ed my very first digital camera, it was that site that totally changed my mind on what I thought I was going to get. (I was going back and forth between a Nikon and an Olympus, but after reading DP R's review on the Canon G1, ended up buying into Canon.)
Look also at photo.net, if you haven't already. Their tutorials section is particularly useful.

If we could find a nice open staircase, we could try for a photo inspired by the painting (perhaps with a guy in a gorilla suit :)
*snerk*
Something tells me there has to be one somewhere along the infinite corridor. One could also create a similar image by shooting against a black background, and doing multiple exposures.

Re: Reminds me of Nude Descending A Staircase

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

"Does the panorama insist on up->down, left->right, or can you reverse the direction?"

There's a menu option to pick the direction. It needs to know what direction you're going to move the camera because it allocates the memory first, and then writes out a portion of the image as you move the camera. It also needs a scene with distinct features that it can grab as reference points as the camera moves. The first panorama I tried failed because a shingled roof doesn't have enough distinct features, turning the camera sides and telling it I was doing an up/down panorama fixed the problem. (sideways, I could include the barn windows in the picture)

"Something tells me there has to be one somewhere along the infinite corridor."

The stairs from building 8 down to building 16 might work.

"One could also create a similar image by shooting against a black background, and doing multiple exposures."

Or a long exposure and a flashing strobe. But I think the serendipity of using the panorama mode be more interesting.