We all feel like we are king of the camera since all of these new camera's with zooming functies have gotten better and better on all phones. It seems like on every phone that comes out, the most attention is paid to getting the camera to the best at work.
More broadangles lenses, more zooming options, and also more filters and other editting software. You don't really have be a genius anymore and take all kinds of courses to be able to do something nice with a camera.
So you try and experiment, and try and experiment and and with some nice filters it feels like you are ready to take magazine shots and people will buy your images, right? Or does this only happen in my head? :D
This is a 30x zoomed crappy shot of a willow tree about 150 meters away. Even though the lighting was quite decent, and the willow trees has a lot of texture in there, keeping the camera still to get it to focus is just impossible to get a decent shot of it there.
That is the sucky thing with cameras. Once they start thinking for themselves, life does not always get easier.
And then a whole new world and rabbithole opened up again. The world of binoculars! I had no idea how wide the variety of all of these guys was, and also the difference in lenses, usability and also price variety. Where to start in the search?
But eventually the perfect reasonable one was found and since nature is so present here it is nice to spot birds and squirrels and also head out to see deer in the woods in the morning
Funfact: walking with binoculars in the morning to spot deer is not really common here in the city I suppose, as I felt more than embarrased trying to not let anyone see that I was walking around with binoculars before they expected that I was a creep trying to peek into their homes.
When I was telling this at work, one of the guys said: have you tried taking a picture with your camera through the binoculars already, which I hadnt thought about at all to be honest, so I gave that a try.
Just to tell you, putting a camera behind a pair of binoculars is not even that easy. First you have to check out what you want to see and centre it on the binocular for you to see decent with two eyes, then make that to 1 eye. And then put the camera behind it which will again auto-adjust to the settings and click snap at the same time. Being an octopus would surely help in this one.
This is the result of the same willow and the same distance and with the picture above with the optical zoom. That is pretty different in detail right?
Yeah the camera does zoom in further..But not better.
A nice little experiment this is, and I am sure that you can expect some more images through a round lens from me in the future when seeing something nice.
But also... Let's see what comes next when the simple phones gives it some more filters:
Apply some filter and voila: this is the result!
Heck....everyone can play around with this right?