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If we’re going to be airing grievances, then I have a bone to pick with Orionid. You have been spending far too much time at work recently. So much so that you haven’t been up to you old crafty ways and delighting us with nifty DIY photo gear projects!

(A contribution has been made in all your names to The Human Fund (Money for People).)

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I switched to DropBox for my hosting this week. It’s actually easier than SkyDrive was. Let’s see if it can withstand the demands of Farktography.

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I like how he’s rocking the tilt to get everyone in focus from front to rear.

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Argh!!!!!! This is the 3rd week in a row that Fark has trashed all my entries.

What changed 3 weeks ago?

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Looks ‘shopped. I can tell by the cell phone antennae. Those must have been added since they didn’t exist when the world was black-and-white. 😀

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Here’s the X-mas gifts for the family.
Green chile jelly and stew.

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Bon voyage! Aloha oi! Be sure to take some pics of your trip so we can see them when you come back. 🙂

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If you’re having problems with rolling shutter, I would recommend skewing the image in post-processing instead of rolling (rotation around lens/fore-aft axis) the camera body. But now that I think about it, you’re exactly right orienting the camera in portrait would totally eliminate the rolling shutter effect as a single column of pixels would be captured all at the same time. It would also have the added benefit of greater resolution.

Also, in case anyone was wondering, I used Irfanview to separate the video into stills, then batch crop into columns, and finally stitch the columns into a single image. I could still use a recommendation for a .MOV frame grabber.

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And here’s a still photo to show you the set-up and that the resolution of the strip photo isn’t so bad consider it was captures as MOV, converted to WMV, extracted to BMP, croped as BMP, stitched into left and right pano JPGs, those two stitched into one JPG, and then resized. The yellow streak above at the right is a tape measure I paper-clipped to the tail to pull the beaver. You can sort of see the paper-clip on his tail above. The strips were taken from about the 39″ mark on the level in this image, between the table and the door frame..

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Well, here it is. The final product. A strip photo taken with a standard dSLR. I was moving the animal at about 4 ips, so for the final I rescaled horizontally by 75% to correct the aspect ratio.

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Ok, so getting a bit mathematical now.
The camera is set-up with a 4′ level across the frame so I can measure stuff. There are 31 inches in the frame, but I’ll round up to 32 to keep things simple. Shooting 640×480 gives a horizontal resolution of 640/32 = 20 pixels per inch (I know not stellar). Now, if I were to take a column of 1 pixel wide, i.e. 1/20″, from each frame, i.e. 1/60 sec., the subject of the image would need to be moving at 1/20″ / 1/60 sec. or 3 inches per second. Wow, that is some slow moving object. Now if I took a 2 pixel wide column, it would go twice as fast, etc. Perhaps if I used dental floss to tie the stuffed animal and drug it across the frame? Let’s give it another try!

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Argh! Why must Canon create impossible to read Quicktime crap MOVs? And why does all the MOV to MPG conversion software suck? Can anyone recommend a program to convert a MOV to individual stills? And why on earth are there so many different encoding, compression, video, audio, and container formats that all seem to be incompatible with each other? Argh!

I have learned however that stuffed animals flying across the screen at 6″ per frame, i.e. 30 feet per second, are moving much too fast to make this work.

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It’s good to know that I’m not the only person who uses the top of the dryer as random crap storage.

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MS Skydrive. It’s free, easy, and 25 GB. (I know, I know. Get a real host. Spend some $$$.) It’s worked fine since FarkCon last April. Only last week and this week have I noticed any problems. 😡

http://sdrv.ms/No6KEx

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Want.

Well, of course you want it. We all know that.
I had to double check the original post to see that it wasn’t you that found this thing in the first place.

The real questions is “What would Orionid do with this?”
Cough it up. Start spilling your guts.
We can take all the time we need until you crack.

DIY 120 format panoramic camera?
Strip camera, perhaps? ( http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/2043 )
Long exposure ‘zooms’?

We must know!!!

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