shot with a $200 p&s!

[hepcat]

Perspective control is an amazing thing...

http://www.viralnova.com/toy-car-world/

 

[benji77]

This is superb!

 

[froyd]

Nicely done, and a beautiful "reality" he has created. I agree with the writer of the piece: I'd like to climb into that world for a few hours.

 

[DanielDuarte]

fantastic!

 

[sevo]

The notion that he "only" does it with a $200 point-and-shoot is misleading, though. If the goal is a in-camera single shot illusion rather than post-processed composites, it can only be done with a tiny sensor camera.

 

[iamzip]

I first saw this here: http://www.cracked.com/article_18444_17-more-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped.html

 

[rinzlerb]

I don't get it. Why only tiny-sensor camera? It works fine for the application, but wouldn't any camera with big depth of field be able to do this? I guess perhaps you need the lack of resolution to lose a bit of the detail in the background to match the toy cars. Is that it?

 

[hepcat]

I don't get it. Why only tiny-sensor camera? It works fine for the application, but wouldn't any camera with big depth of field be able to do this? I guess perhaps you need the lack of resolution to lose a bit of the detail in the background to match the toy cars. Is that it?

The point isn't the tiny-sensor camera (although it does cause them to have a '40s and '50s Brownie kind of look) and there's some validity to the DOF issue with the small sensor; the point is that you don't NEED an expensive, full-frame interchangeable-lens system to accomplish what he does.

We can speculate on his choice of camera, but only the photographer could tell us why that's his choice. The results, though, are remarkable.

 

[Addy101]

It is impressive. But not because it was done with "just" a $200,- camera. It could've done with a $50,- camera just as well...

 

[sevo]

I don't get it. Why only tiny-sensor camera? It works fine for the application, but wouldn't any camera with big depth of field be able to do this?

Yes. However, your 50mm (or even the 35mm on the crop DSLR) won't deliver as much DOF as needed - and shooting that thing with a 12mm on FF would deliver a very, very different perspective (which would completely ruin that period look).

Technically speaking, it is possible to have a short lens with deep DOF and normal angle in big formats, by using a relay lens construction - model shots and matte composites in cine SFX used to be done that way until CGI took over. But a decent tiny sensor compact will deliver the same at fractions of the cost of such a Hollywood SFX rig.