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Mary went to work at the UN Aids, part of the World Health Organization in Geneva and Craig had errands to do and spent much of the day installing a camera system to watch their house since the house next door had been robbed a few days previously. I sat in their large living room with windows facing Mount Blanc and a row of snow capped mountains and let the cats in and out and ate marvelous French bread and cheese with apple juice and drank espresso coffee.
I spent the day trying to figure out how to get high resolution photographs on either my iPhone or my large OMD Mark III Olympus camera. One way of making high resolution photographs with a 12 megapixel sensor for the camera to rapidly take 16 photographs with the sensor shifting very, very slightly between photographs and then combining the 16 photographs (320 pixels) and then down sampling this to 50 megapixels all in the blink of an eye but with a slight lag processing time. The iPhone takes 48 megapixel photographs somehow, maybe the same way, with its much smaller sensor and I’m sure some artificial intelligence magic using its powerful computer.
But, alas, I don’t think either method is going to give me super clear photographs when blown up on the huge virtual screen of the Vision Pro. I know this is an example of the the mind numbing attempt to be technical that makes all of our minds freeze up when dealing with the new technologies. We don’t want to understand, we just want things to work. But, unfortunately, when our tech toys don’t work we have to sort of try to understand why.
But I think I have reached the end of the road for me. I can try both these ways of getting high resolution (crystal clear) photographs and just be resigned to the fact that I won’t be able to do so. In fact, Apple seems to offer a way out. All the panoramas appear first as long rectangles in which the photographs are quite clear. It is only when they are super enlarged in the wrap around totally immersive form that they finally appear fuzzy like the photograph above. So if I want the photographs to be clear I must look at them in the smaller size, if I want to be immersed I will have to settle for fuzziness until Apple improves the iPhone.
Apple, in the demonstration fooled me a little by using much more powerful cameras which produce clear photographs even when they immerse me completely on the moon, or in Yosemite Park or Joshua Tree Park or by the lake looking at Mount Hood.
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