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Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the digital-would-have-been-easier dept.

BluKnight writes "This guy hacked his camera to his speedometer, and ended up taking a picture EVERY MILE during a trip across the US. Kodak has the results (Flash in use!) of this venture. For my next hack, I'm going to interface to my digital camera to take a picture every time I blink -- I'll never miss what I'm seeing again!" The best part is the fact that he stopped every 36 miles to swap film rolls. Sad thing is, I understand this. (I still love film) The interactive map is -really- well done, but requires flash...

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  1. speedometer? by bellings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wouldn't it have been easier to hook the camera to his odometer, instead of the speedometer?

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  2. getting out more often by Alien54 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Perople who do not get out enough rarely have any notion as to just how $%#$&^@ huge the country is.

    Even if you spent an evening just looking at skimming through these, you could get an idea.

    It used to be that people often lived their whole lives within walking distance of their home village. You can easily have the equivalent of that today, with close knit communities of other types.

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  3. Damn... by dimator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They were beautiful, weren't they?

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    1. Re:Damn... by Mr.Intel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm glad they didn't edit those out like so many movies have. It's a shame to attempt to erase from media what should be an icon of human endeavor.

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    2. Re:Damn... by realdpk · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I have to agree with the AC - on that they weren't beautiful. They're big ugly boxes that happened to be very tall.

      (However, I'm not glad they're gone, I don't particularly care about them. It's sad that lives were lost but buildings on the other end of the country from me are another story. -1, here I come.)

  4. Fishy by Brian+Kendig · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's something fishy with the pictures. Many of them are just *too* picturesque to be believable. Look at pictures 613 and 614, for example; they're both ends of the same service station! The same jeep is even in both pictures! Is this service station really a mile long?

  5. Re:ummm... DIGITAL camera? by Ubergrendle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Digital is not always better. Digital cameras and digitial video certinaly offer alot in cost savings and convenience, but there are certain effects that are still far superior using analog inputs. Consider black & white movies -- films like It's A Wonderful Life have a fabulous luminescance to them that can't be reproduced today...even analog stock manufacturing techniques have changed so much. And NO, it's not practical to assume that you can just build a filter in photoshop/premiere...

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  6. Re:Thats alot of blurry pictures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    he used this strange, mystical stuff called "film" jackass. not everything is digital today, some people actually like using real film.

  7. Re:I didn't know the US was that flat by mgv · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It seems like he went through some of the most boring, flattest parts of the US on his trip. Even through Colorado and Utah, everything was flat. What's up with that?

    Probably too hard to change the film every 36 miles while driving around the edge of a canyon. :-)

    Michael

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