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#Zooming
The Web’s Most Tolerated Feature, by @bocoup:
Designing for User Font-Size and Zoom, by @mia (@OddBird):
Animating Zooming Using CSS: Transform Order Is Important… Sometimes, by @jaffathecake:
Just realised why I have trouble zooming in and out with a mouse. Apple apps appreciate that I have selected “natural scrolling”, but other apps don’t. So zoom direction is inconsistent. Turn off natural scrolling and everything works as expected.
Lens Artists Challenge #350: Zooming
‘Zoom, zoom, zoom!’ says, Anne, who is our host for the Lens-Artists Challenge this week. Unsurprisingly, her choice of subject is ‘Zooming‘, and she adds: ‘It’s one of my favorite types of photography, and it is fun!’ Zooming, or ‘zoom burst’ photography as I’ve seen it called, is certainly great fun. As Anne says, at the core of this technique is mounting a zoom lens on the camera and, when taking an image, changing the focal length of the zoom lens during the exposure. This gives a wonderful ‘burst’ effect, though my attempts have never been as spectacular as Anne’s examples.
But what if you don’t have a zoom lens? Can you still achieve the same effect with a point and shoot, or even a smartphone? Actually, yes. You can, with one of my favourite bits of kit, the DIY Deakinizer. I’ve used the ‘Deakinizer’ in the Lens-Artists Challenge before. Back in January, during the ‘Shoot From Above‘ challenge, I used it to take images of objects around the house. This time, I’ve used it on a ‘walk around the block’.
The DIY Deakinizer is simply a wide-angle converter, one of those odd-looking lenses that screws onto the front of the lens you are using, but held reversed over the camera lens. Positioned correctly, the centre of the image is (roughly) in focus, while around the edges is a lovely starburst effect. It’s not a zoom burst, but it’s pretty darned close. You can pick these up for about 5€ or less, depending on the manufacturer, and like most things I’ve found in my photography accessories, the cheaper, the better. The results you’ll get will vary depending on the camera/converter combination that you use, so it’s a bit hit and miss sometimes finding the right combination that suits you.
For this Challenge, I’m using the Canon Powershot G12 fitted with a lens hood and the Sakar Super Wider Fish-Eye 0.42x wide-angle converter. The converter is fitted to the camera with step-up rings, and the whole arrangement is quite secure. The results were quite spectacular. Reversed, the converter gives the most amazing chromatic aberration that reveals a wonderful multicoloured image with a pronounced zoom effect.
I also tried a different wide angle converter, the Sigma x0.5 Wide Converter for Video, which gave a much cleaner and more subtle effect than the Sakar. Cinematographer Roger Deakins created the Deakinizer in 2007. A lens that would fit over the lens of a movie camera to produce an image with a sharp centre and blurred edges. This became known as the Deakinizer effect and has been used a lot in films ever since. In this case, the combination of Powershot G12 and Sigma x0.5 Wide Converter gave an image more reminiscent of of the Deakinizer effect than the Sakar.
I was really pleased how well the faux zoom-burst effect worked, and I hope that you like the results. All being well, I’ll be using my original Panavision ‘Deakinizer’ with a Zenit 11 single lens reflex camera for the upcoming Crappy Commie Camera Party, and I’ll be sure to post the results — successful or otherwise.
Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can po3st their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.
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#Blurry #Burst #Challenge #Deakinizer #Lens #LensArtists #LensMod #ReverseLens #WideAngle #Zooming #LensArtists
An Aura of Accessibility, by @TPGi:
@handwaving there’s a good way out of #zooming and panning: request an HTML version. This is coming up more and more, eg at @arxiv.
Arkadia Zoomquilt – An infinitely zooming floral botanical painting – Created by Nikolaus Baumgarten and Sophia Schomberg
Hypnotically beautiful!
there's something 'unfun' about the boots of blinding speed, or any exploit to become super fast in #computergames (and especially #ElderScrolls games); it's hard to put my finger on it, but i think it's because it removes the need to carefully plan and determine best routes for efficiency because you're just #zooming all-over-the-place. the moment you become super fast you effectively become all-powerful and it starts to feel like cheating, even if the devs (poorly) intended it.
Zooming is amazing. It turns complex things simple. Think about Earth – so chaotic and full of life up close. But from space, it's just a calm blue dot. This shows us that stepping back can make understanding big, complicated stuff easier. It's all about seeing the bigger picture. #Galactify #Zooming #BigPicture #StartupStory
@KevinMarks @danhon I think the hypertext/linky-notes crowd would like a #zooming-in-space UI.
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/ZoomIng
#Journal, Day 1133
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
#stillnotright #wfh #spectrumoutage
#firstworldproblems
#zooming #birdsofmastodon #noseboop
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