[TML] Joel brings the New Year in with a bang!

[Knapp]

On Jan 7, 2008 11:11 PM, Ewan Quibell <ewan at quibell.org.uk> wrote:
> traveller at dhimaging.com.au wrote:
>
> >> As the sun came up and the light changed, as we moved around it in the
> >> air coming in, and on the road coming in, it looked different from
> >> moment to moment.
> >>
> >> Words, photos and video don't adequately capture its magnificence, I
> >> discovered.
> >>
>  > ===============================================
>  > [joel]
>  >
>  > That's very true.  Words fail to describe it.  I wonder if it has to
>  > do with the mind's perception?
>
> Yes and no. Yes because it's your mind that perceives the visual change
> through your optic nerve, and no because it's a visual effect.
>
> Video doesn't capture it well because of the quality, and the number of
> frames per second. Very high speed, high res video might do the trick.
>
> Photo's are a snap shot so obviously won't capture the change.
>
> It is stunning though. The changing colours of Uluru at sunset and
> sunrise is probably the best visual effect I've seen. All the more
> magnificent for the fact that it's natural.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ewan
> --
>   ewan at quibell.org.uk
>
>   They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
>   Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
>   At the going down of the sun and in the morning
>   We will remember them.
>                         Laurence Binyon
>
>   My spelling is entirerly due to dyslexia, typos, and poetic license

Don't forget that most video and film is not binocular.
DEK