{"id":434,"date":"2009-08-11T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2022-04-13T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T01:58:40","slug":"cameras-as-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2009\/08\/11\/cameras-as-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"cameras as tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in the habit of carrying my camera, a Canon Powershot A720, with me everywhere I go. Ever striving to view through my eyeballs in the present moment instead of watch life pass on a tiny screen, I don’t shoot every fascinating thing. A lot of experiences you can’t capture anyway, so you might as well just live them.<\/p>\n

I have, however, increasingly been using my camera as a tool. It’s more than a memory catcher\u2014to remember for myself and to share with others. It’s also a damn good set of eyes that can see what I cannot and that can capture things quickly. For example, instead of taking time to read the buffalo statue<\/a>‘s plaque in small-town Alberta with my out-of-sight Greyhound threatening to take off without me at any moment, I snapped a shot then read the inscription<\/a> once safely back on the bus.<\/p>\n

Because of their dark or otherwise colored lenses, trying on sunglasses and checking them out in a mirror doesn’t give you an accurate idea of what they actually look like on you. The solution? CAMERA TOOL!<\/p>\n

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As another example, one day waiting for a city bus, I noticed some kind of parking lot sale across a busy street. I couldn’t read the sign and didn’t want to cross the street to check it out and potentially miss my bus\u2014but nor did I want to miss out on some mega-ridiculous street shirt sale, if indeed it were mega-ridiculous.<\/p>\n

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Zooming in and taking a picture, I found the shirts were $20 and nothing special. THANK YOU, CAMERA TOOL!<\/p>\n

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I did this trick again with my family. We noticed a bumper sticker stating “26.2” and all suffered temporary brain-blanks. Figuring the fine print we couldn’t read might be a clue, I zoomed, snapped, viewed, zoomed and duh, it’s for a marathon.<\/p>\n

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I’ve also used cameras to flash-and-snap inside dark rooms and to see what’s on the other side of tall obstructions. I know none of this is new, but I’m willing to bet it’s unrecognized and under-utilized by most folks\u2014many of whom carry a camera, whether a point-and-shoot or in their phones.<\/p>\n

Your camera is your friend! Exploit it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THANK YOU, CAMERA TOOL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}