Comments on: Camera Illusion.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:15:43 +0000

Obviously this guy didn't do his homework. A John Deere D is bigger than the relative size of the Mercedes C. For someone wearing and driving the sterotypical professor accoutriments, i'd expect better.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:29:32 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q75sH71rHCA

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:26:36 +0000

Here's an entire website of stills using the same technique. It's been around for at least 4 years..but I know the idea has been around much longer.
http://dubster.com/cars/index.asp?id=419

By: ted

ted — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:55:52 +0000

Woulda worked better if you hadn't told everyone it was an illusion.

By: fine

fine — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:58:55 +0000

I conjectured

By: diskussed

diskussed — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:53:32 +0000

Wikipedia has a neat explanation on "Depth of field"

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:55:33 +0000

in top secret they had also a librarian with a magnifier, but in fact he had a huge eye.

neat video.

By: artbot

artbot — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:12:27 +0000

This technique goes back about 100 years. It's been used for placing miniatures or paintings into movie scenes before the invention of the optical printer, and even much more recently. It's very easy to do, as long as you have a lot of light, which creates the long focus area so everything from a few inches to infinity is in focus.

I used this technique in my teenage moviemaking days. A friend stood on a ladder far from the camera and a crashed spaceship model was placed right up in front of the camera, so it looked like he was climbing out of the top hatch of the ship. Those were the days!

By: Solo

Solo — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:32:13 +0000

I remember something like that in the movie "Top Secret". It was a telephone, only the telephone was huge and far away and the scene was shot to make you believe the phone was regular size and close to the camera. Until someone picked up the oversized phone.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:29:39 +0000

I saw exactly the same thing about a week ago, except there was a model car with the hood open instead of a model tractor. I can't recall if it was on Neatorama or Digg, but the video looked as if it might have been captured from a kid's show like Sesame Street. So, this may not be original.

By: Droo

Droo — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:46:45 +0000

...okay...
...okaaaaay...
Where is it? What the hell is that guy d -

...

Oh. *brain 'splodes accordingly*