Life before smartphones (2020)

Re:Life before smartphones (2020) by jhgb on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:49PM (#28042445)

> These days, (nearly) everyone carries a camera around all the time, and one that is quite probably much better than the one I had in 1992. They can take dozens, even hundreds of pictures without breaking a sweat, and it does not cost anything.

...and despite that, pictures of UFOs are as awful as ever. ;)

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Re:Life before smartphones (2020) by container on Monday August 02, 2021 @05:45PM (#28043097)

I tried taking a photo of the moon a while ago on my phone, and I couldn't really get it to look decent. I don't know if most smartphone users even know how to adjust the exposure setting even if any of that helped. And if they saw something as interesting as a UFO, I don't think they would figure it out on the spot either. I'm not sure if automatic settings would cut it on a fancier phone.

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Re:Life before smartphones (2020) by Smashure on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:36PM (#28043551)

I’ll settle for bad video from tons of angles.

Today if you hovered a UFO over any city over 1000 people you will get endless footage of the event.

I’m waiting for said event.

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Re:Life before smartphones (2020) by mrunseen on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:31AM (#28046572)

It is because of focal length. Although phone manufacturers started to put “tele” cameras, primary camera is wide. Wide lenses mean there will be more coverage but things will get smaller, which happens with moon.

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