Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s the distance from the lens to the focal point, as in where the picture focuses on the sensor behind the lens. If you have a very long focal length like a telescope, you can see things further away but the range you can see is very small. With a short focal length you can’t see as far but you can see a much wider view. Check out this chart:

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  If you get very close to something with a short focal length or far away from it with a long focal length you can get essentially the same picture of a main subject (although what you can see in the background will be different), but even then a short lens will sort of taper your subject closer to a single point and a long lens will widen it. You can see this effect easily on faces: see this gif or this gif or this picture for an example.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow, what an amazing reply, thank you very much. Those images help a lot.

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