The brain gets disoriented trying to reconcile the difference between the distance to the image and the foreshortened viewing angle.
Spectators at that opening ceremony held up a colored piece of plastic under their noses to create an image that, from a distance, looked like a map of the world.
For those looking to capture a beautiful and sharp image up close or at a distance, the new COOLPIX P520 boasts a 42x optical zoom-NIKKOR glass lens with an impressive zoom range from a wide 24mm to a whopping 1000mm (35mm equivalent), for users that require the very best in performance and versatility.
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Today's facial-recognition systems use a camera to zoom in on an individual's eyes, mouth and nose, and extract a "feature vector, " a set of numbers that describes key aspects of the image, such as the precise distance between the eyes. (Remember, in the end, digital images are just numbers.) Those numbers can be fed back into a large database of faces in search of a match.
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We started out by taking photos of a still projected image of some foliage, from a distance of around two feet from the screen -- by which time the light from the projector had had quite a journey.
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Additionally, it features a macro switching ring on the lens barrel which instantly shortens the minimum focusing distance to approximately 20cm (from image plane), allowing the camera to capture small, close-up subjects with exquisite detail.
The boulevard rises like a raking stage, and framed by the green rostrum at right, balconies that furiously recede at left, and a prosceniumlike black band and red banner that compress the image at center dissolves in the distance as the parade lurches to the right and disappears.
Sonar scans done at a safe distance of 10 metres create a rough image known as a data-point cloud.
At this setting, the pixelation was pretty clear and the image was downright fuzzy even when viewed from a distance.
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HDTVs tend to get blurry from up close at around 50 inches, but with UHD having four times the number of pixels the image on much larger panels stays sharp from any distance.
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Later in the '70s, Summer became a born-again Christian and began to distance herself ever so slightly from her sexy image.
Canon's PowerShot SX260 HS camera delivers a powerful 20x Optical Zoom and 25mm Wide-Angle lens with Optical Image Stabilization delivers stunning images from up close or at a distance and measuring just 1.29-inches thick.
Included in the listing is an image shot high above the house of the surrounding greens and the coastline in the distance.
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