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Stalking the Wily Analemma
avi33 writes "Wired has an article on the short list of photographers seeking to capture a shot of the analemma - the sun's figure-eight-shaped declination in the sky over the course of a year. Only a handful of people are known to have done this, and of course the obstacles are many: maintaining the equipment and its positioning, the finicky nature of film, the weather, and the photographer's persistence. Is it just me, or is this crying out for digital automation? Mount a cam to a hardpoint, have it snap a shot every x hours, and overlay them? Why I bet some of you could do this with a perl script in an afternoon. There's a shortage of photos from outside the northern hemisphere, so get busy."
Your computer can also re-produce Beethoven's 9th, "perfectly", as many times as you want.
That is not the same an orchestra performing it.
Some things are just cooler in analong.
Like this? I did that in a few minutes.
I wonder how it's possible to check a digital image to see if it's real or not. I just took an existing analemma and overlayed a random landscape on top of it (which is similar to what is done on film, I think).
"I wonder how it's possible to check a digital image to see if it's real or not."
I can see the extra JPG compression on the landscape versus the analemma.
"Derp de derp."