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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 bjpbakker »

lervag wrote: post #40
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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The certificate is signed by a Google intermediate CA using GlobalSign as the root CA.

I don't use Chrome but I find it hard to believe that Chrome now distrusts Google's own CAs. A user errors seems more likely :)

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by hmottestad »

lervag wrote: post #40
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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Fyi. This is the cert I'm getting: https://imgur.com/a/D1RQ2

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by sambeau »

ScottBurson wrote: post #48

I would love to see these in a stereoscopic viewer. If they really were taken that close together in time, and given the huge binocular separation, there should be a hell of a 3-D effect.

If you squint your eyes enough you can make them overlap and sure enough you get a perfect piece of 3D. The water at the front is a mess but the lighthouse and the spray have real depth.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by rangibaby »

thinkloop wrote: post #41

Wasn't he shooting continuously for 45 minutes? That's 3% of a day. Wouldn't he have a shot of the same millisecond of any photos taken during that time?

There are 1000 ms per second, the camera he used takes 7 frames per second.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by vidarh »

OJFord wrote: post #45
skrebbel wrote: post #36

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…

It's made more remarkable IMO that they were two _professional_ photographers though, and that it's not just two snaps that happen to have the same timestamp, they both chose that moment to feature from the burst they probably took around that moment, the hundreds of other moments in proximity, and the thousands (I suppose? I'm no photographer) they each took throughout the day.

It's made more likely that they (when there's first an overlap in their shooting) would select the same picture by virtue of getting roughly the same shots and their shots being likely to have many of the same qualities. Chances are they'll value many of the same qualities and so would at least exclude shots of many of the same moments for the same reasons.

That they're professional photographers might reduce the odds by virtue of there being fewer of them, but might increase the odds by virtue of them being more likely to be the kind of people to know of specific spots to go out of their way to take pictures from during a storm, and more likely to value the same qualities i their shots, as well as more likely to publicize their photos enough for one of them to find the other persons photo.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by laneb »

skrebbel wrote: post #36

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…

The birthday paradox arises because the probability that two candidates do not match is small compared to the number of candidates. In this case, the candidates are photos and a match in fact requires a match on multiple variables (e.g. angle, timing) that are effectively continuous. A match between 2 arbitrary photos must then have zero-ish probability and a non-match must have one-ish. So it still seems inestimably improbable that something like this would happen.

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by panic »

ScottBurson wrote: post #48

I would love to see these in a stereoscopic viewer. If they really were taken that close together in time, and given the huge binocular separation, there should be a hell of a 3-D effect.

Check out the comments at the bottom of the article -- "trialex" put together a "wiggle gif" version (https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/42ab07151119e1a3d5a43fa...) and "Michael Wise" posted a cross-eyed version (https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2903120ac9e726088a33b8d...).

Re: Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time

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Post by rangibaby »

murukesh_s wrote: post #4

5d's image looks remarkably better in terms of colour depth and details.. wondering whether it's due to the sensor size (full frame vs aps-c) or some other factor?

I will edit this to reply properly later but from the pic it looks like the main difference is the lens
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