Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 29 Aug 2006 at 6:38, Frank Filippone wrote: > There was an article in the NRA publication about a new scope for rifles > that has a full digital camera built in. Essentially you > view your target through a camera, with a built in LCD screen. Some > trivial ( to me, I do not shoot) details include a USB port, a > Memory card, and a parallax free optical path. Why a memory card in a > rifle scope? Who knows.... maybe you can download the sight > of Bambi getting a bullet in her head so that you can sit at home with a > long necked beer and enjoy the kill over and over on your > 'puter..... More likely the ability to watch a high-framerate video of the entire process so that if your shot goes wrong and you DON'T get a clean kill on Bambi (usually a heart shot as opposed to a head shot, btw) you can have a better look at where, EXACTLY, you were pointing when you fired. We're talking thousandths and ten-thousandths of a second here, so having a tunable camera that could capture the exact instants needed could be of great help. As with photography, specific types of technical errors result in specific types of misses. If you consistently miss low right, you're doing a specific thing; if you're consistently throwing high, you're doing a specific OTHER thing with a different correction. It's the same way we lean photography by looking at the shots that DON'T do exactly what we want them to do, and trying to sort out what actually happened and how we can do it better next time. Attaboys are a lot less instructive than Ted's critiques, no? -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request