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Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by carlmr »

aidenn0 wrote: post #30
comex wrote: post #27

Literally the same millisecond (according to timestamps), or ‘only’ the same tenth of a second or so (as demonstrated by the pictures being near identical)? Those would both be unlikely and remarkable events, but one is 100 times more unlikely than the other :)

Timestamps are not useful for this since the cameras clocks are likely off by more than a millisecond. I think a millisecond is too strong of a claim, but it's almost certainly much less than 1/10th of a second. (a simple though experiment that you could turn into a real experiment if you have a camera: If you take a 1/10th second exposure of something like this the magnitude of the motion blur will be much greater t…

So if two people are shooting in burst mode, and both have an overlap in their shooting burst of say 2 seconds with 5 images per second. Then the chances is already (2 * 5)/1000 to land a picture in the same millisecond.

You'd expect in 100 burst of pictures taken like this for one to be taken at the same millisecond.

It's not that unlikely. What's more unlikely is that they selected the same shot and found out about it. This probably happens multiple times every day, just by virtue of the billions of people in the world taking a photo every day.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by ggg9990 »

comex wrote: post #27

Literally the same millisecond (according to timestamps), or ‘only’ the same tenth of a second or so (as demonstrated by the pictures being near identical)? Those would both be unlikely and remarkable events, but one is 100 times more unlikely than the other :)

No more than 1/100s apart.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by lobster_johnson »

Cool idea for a service like Flickr (or at least Flickr in its prime, which is not now) to exploit -- given EXIF data and a database of photos, one could find all the photos taken in the same location at the exact time. While almost no cameras embed GPS information, I bet there are ways to infer the location in many cases.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by skrebbel »

This is typical birthday paradox stuff right? The chance that these two photographers would ever snap the same thing at the same time is small, but the chance that any two photographers, anywhere, would do so is, I bet, pretty big (even if you factor in millisecond precision). With photographers being photographers and the internet being the internet, there's also a pretty decent change that they'd find out about it and write a blog post like this, no? :-)

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by phamilton »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #34

Cool idea for a service like Flickr (or at least Flickr in its prime, which is not now) to exploit -- given EXIF data and a database of photos, one could find all the photos taken in the same location at the exact time. While almost no cameras embed GPS information, I bet there are ways to infer the location in many cases.

This was in fact the business of the infamous Color startup[0]. For those not familiar, they raised a ridiculous amount of money, then shut down and returned most of it to the investors. My favorite memory of Color was when they became a landmark when they bought a massive office in downtown Palo Alto, got hit with zoning restrictions which forced them to use the ground floor for retail or leave it empty (they left it empty).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Labs

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by lmnt »

It's possible to judgde the relative positions of the photographers by eye based on some of the waves directly under the lighthouse. In Eric's picture there are some distinct crests immediately below the lighthouse door. In Ron's picture the exact same crests are on a diagonal line from the door toward the lower left corner of the frame. Tracing this imaginary line "out of the picture" would lead us to Eric's position, which means that Eric is to the left of Ron.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by lervag »

TehCorwiz wrote: post #23

This has always been one of my favorite photographic coincidences. https://calculatedimages.blogspot.com/2013/05/3d-lightning.h...

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