{"id":249,"date":"2004-07-05T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T12:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-02-01T21:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:19:36","slug":"binoculars-as-zoom-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Binoculars as zoom lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried using my compact binoculars as a zoom lens for the Sony Cyber-shot I am borrowing at the moment. You can see the results yourself, below.<br \/>\nAn interesting effect, but nowhere near as good as when I look through the binoculars myself.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting that what the camera sees, and what I see, are two totally different things.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a thought to take out for dinner on this lovely Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_250\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250\" title=\"binoculars\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/binocs.jpg\" alt=\"The binocular view\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/binocs.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/binocs-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The binocular view<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried using my compact binoculars as a zoom lens for the Sony Cyber-shot I am borrowing at the moment. You can see the results yourself, below. An interesting effect, but nowhere near as good as when I look through the binoculars myself. Interesting that what the camera sees, and what I see, are two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}