Tag: tv
Years ago my dad told me that if you wanted to photograph a TV screen your shutter speed should be 1/15th second.
Obviously, you can’t see, know or numerically choose the shutter speed on an iPhone. However, if you are attempting to iphotograph an TV, play with increasing and decreasing the phone’s distance from the TV and observe how the image changes on your screen. Using this method I was able to shoot this same shot without any black lines.
In my opinion, the introduction of the in-seat TV screen is the greatest thing to happen to flying since escape hatches.
Finally, we are in control of what we want to watch.
However, the sight of a hundred or so people tightly packed next to each other wearing headphones and intenty staring at their own personal screen definitely diminishes any sense of flying as a shared experience.
Flying used to be an adventure. Now it’s an inconvenience. Security measures in our post-9/11 world have a lot to do with that, but a general malaise towards the engineering marvel that is scheduled mass passenger flight already exsisted before our ‘war-on-terror’ reality.
Heaven help us if the entertainment system were to go down. We may have to read, or introduce ourselves to our elbow neighbour, or stare out the window at a sight that human eyes had never seen a scant century ago.
