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What I'd like to see in new camera's with excess MegaPixels is help for photographers who accidentally behead their subjects.
The camera could take a picture ten percent wider and higher than what is shown in the viewfinder and stuff the extra pixels into comment fields in your jpeg. When you find a beheading in a photo back on your PC you can just press the a reframe button, your extra hidden pixels reappear plus a framing rectangle which you move up to include the heads you missed and voila - perfect picture.
I'm still upto page 150 or so of the first book (fellowship). Every 5 pages or so the hobbits break into song. You can tell which bits are songs - they're in italics.
I initially thought all the singing was some sort of Wizard Of Oz influence (the books were written from the late thirties to the mid fifties) but The Hobbit was written before Wizard Of Oz's 1939 release and its full of songs too.
The Peter Jackson movies don't totally ignore all the singing : Gandalf sings when he arrives in the shire in his cart (not in the book) and Bilbo sings when he leaves the shire (cut from a ten line stanza in the book to just two lines in the movie). I think when Sarraman does his avalanche thing that that was some sort of song.
I'm only upto page 150 of the first book but one difference I really noticed is that every 5 pages or so the Hobbits burst into song.
I have no idea what sort of tune to put to them when singing them in my head, if Jackson had left them in and translated the books to a Musical rather than a fantasy/actioner I wouldn't have this problem.
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What I'd like to see in new camera's with excess MegaPixels is help for photographers who accidentally behead their subjects. The camera could take a picture ten percent wider and higher than what is shown in the viewfinder and stuff the extra pixels into comment fields in your jpeg. When you find a beheading in a photo back on your PC you can just press the a reframe button, your extra hidden pixels reappear plus a framing rectangle which you move up to include the heads you missed and voila - perfect picture.
I initially thought all the singing was some sort of Wizard Of Oz influence (the books were written from the late thirties to the mid fifties) but The Hobbit was written before Wizard Of Oz's 1939 release and its full of songs too.
The Peter Jackson movies don't totally ignore all the singing : Gandalf sings when he arrives in the shire in his cart (not in the book) and Bilbo sings when he leaves the shire (cut from a ten line stanza in the book to just two lines in the movie). I think when Sarraman does his avalanche thing that that was some sort of song.
I have no idea what sort of tune to put to them when singing them in my head, if Jackson had left them in and translated the books to a Musical rather than a fantasy/actioner I wouldn't have this problem.