...to take a photo of a camera, with that very same camera, and the camera isn't perfectly horizontal in the photo? Using photoshop or something similar doesn't count.
If you work it out I'd be impressed - I may even share some warm fuzzies with you that Dave gave me the other week... (go check his site out - warm fuzzies all around)
I haven't given it much thought, but I'm thinking it will take a curved reflective surface or something. Maybe you could get tricky with multiple mirrors, but I can't see how that would change things.
In case you're wondering why on earth I'm thinking this, it is because I've seen a few self portraits of people on facebook etc lately taken using a mirror, and just wondered if you could do it and not have the camera perfectly straight. It can be interesting (some may say pointless) to ponder that which hath never been pondered before.
ps, Think a little harder before you're tempted to just hold your camera on an angle in front of a mirror and snap... ;)
If you work it out I'd be impressed - I may even share some warm fuzzies with you that Dave gave me the other week... (go check his site out - warm fuzzies all around)
I haven't given it much thought, but I'm thinking it will take a curved reflective surface or something. Maybe you could get tricky with multiple mirrors, but I can't see how that would change things.
In case you're wondering why on earth I'm thinking this, it is because I've seen a few self portraits of people on facebook etc lately taken using a mirror, and just wondered if you could do it and not have the camera perfectly straight. It can be interesting (some may say pointless) to ponder that which hath never been pondered before.
ps, Think a little harder before you're tempted to just hold your camera on an angle in front of a mirror and snap... ;)
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Interesting thought, i'm intreged. Took a few shots and they all were straight. Don't know if you can do it without a curved mirror, but let me know . . . .
As I said, think a little harder Shoe ;)
When lasers use a beam to measure to point the beam is reflected back to the measuring instrument by a "corner prism " comprised of three reflective surfaces all at right angles to each other. No matter what angle the beam hits the prism it will always be reflected back along its own path ( incident angle = reflective angle etc. )
Does this help ?
No. Don't think so. Thanks anyway old man river.
However, the "laser" doesn't reflect along the exact same path. Its reflected path is parallel to its incident path, but it is offset a bit (the maximum offset being the diameter of the opening to the corner prism).
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