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Real Earth-Zoom!

In our earth-zoom tutorial from 2007, I jokingly suggested one method of capturing aerial photography was to send a video camera into space with a weather baloon. Well, someone finally took one of my jokes too far and sent a real camera into space. Admittedly this project was just a coincidence but the fact that it is possible is quite cool and yet somehow frightening…

Hats off to those guys for the uplifting experiment.

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Now if only I could find a clip from the simpsons where Bart launches a weather baloon in the meteor episode… oh well.

65 RESPONSES TO “Real Earth-Zoom!”

NICE!!!

Now that’s amazing. I’d like to see all pics it took.

Very cool

crack up

Unfortunately shot with a small nikon digital camera.

But I’m sure it looks great! lol :D

well ar least it was a cheap camera and not a £300 one
of the cable snapped or the camera fell off i would be annoyed lol

Haha, awesome. I wish i had one of those.

haha :) stick it to the man!! :)

LOL

Wait your were joking? What am I supposed to do with all this string and Helium ballons I bought?

by Bayden Docking

HAHA, I wonder if they could get it to work filming video. That would look cool.

lol, how did they get the camera back?

Awesome sauce. :P

Big LOL…are there more pictures or videoclip they have capure?

That’s funny. Wow, two posts in one day!

This is so cool

uau!! they are from catalunya!! my country :D :D:D visca catalunya!!

wiii bye!

haha that’s awesome

awesome!!

Kramer is influencing the world… Render farm, now earth zoom :P

I hope none tries the demon thing in Face Warp tutorial…

Last thing i need is Lucifer washing my windows :P

waiting for “Real Planet Explosion” ^_^

So the Demon face is a no-no!! damn, I have a bunch of candles at home I have not idea what to do with them :D
This is awesome man, thanks for sharing AK….

It’s great to see we share a love for DIGG….but then again what else is there to do when you work in an office like me…lol

hehe

Balloons are fun! Like when you blow it up and then pull the lip apart and its makes that squealing sound.

wow..imma gonna get me one of those hehe

“waiting for “Real Planet Explosion” ^_^”

LMAO

Saw that on digg.

Hmm… blueprints of the dummy… notarized photos of you making the dummy… and an alternate wording for the banner, “Buttzilla”.

why didnt they use a $100+ video camera…
anyway nice work!

Having a RED camera attached and when the Ballon explodes, the fall back to earth would have been A REAL 2K EARTH ZOMM EXPERIENCE!
But that’d be just Experiments for the big bugs ;)

lol, and they are gonna need some after effects tutorials to get rid of that string in the picture! rofl

Cool !! but what about air traffic ? I guess all was fixed before lunch the baloon. :)

oh…. I didnt know you were joking. Attached my sony V1u to a balloon… the cord snapped.
All well.

Photos on flickr from the project:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/

I heard they almost forgot to load the batteries in the camera… :-)

Whoa….

Thats really really really cool.

by Flim By Tim Productions

I can tell someone looks at digg, nice though.

NICE!!

I can post that requested clip of the Simpsons if you’d like… Let me know.

hahahaha that joke came true….

oh, so it was a joke!

anyone need a balloon maybe?

Andrew U R RoOoCk man

And I thought our earth zoom looked good. Dang! way to go guys. next stop better shots of the moon. LOL

Despite the fact that is great science, is no one wondering about the dangers attached to this whole event? Like the article said, they had to cross the commercial airline zone. The balloon could well end up in one of those aircraft engines. And second first thing I thought about was were is the equipment going to land? Maybe on someones car, house, chiwawa , or even your own head. Wind may have blown the whole piece many km’s out of flight line, bizarre the equipment survived the fall at all!

I really need this tutorial. Thanks. Hope it will be available soon.

Catalonia to the world!!

by TheOneProduction

lets just hope someone doesnt go into there back yard and pick up a pile of dirt and hold it in there hand with a small fire cracker so that when there hand blows off they can sue the fireworks company so they can then purchess particular like you said to do in Meteor Crash 3D p1 haha

Good to see students using their brain for something besides phone-texting and video-taping schoolyard fights. Big kudos to the students and teacher. If we had more students like these guys, I would have a lot more faith in the future of our youth.

Are you serious?
I think that was the first tutorial I watched on this site (since then I’ve been hooked) and I actually believed you when you said how to get those pictures…

but still that experiment must’ve been awesome to execute!
:)

Well done! Just goes to show what a little imagination and alot of spirit can do in this crazy world…

HAHA, this is amazing!!

When I said I need this tutorial, I commented the wrong article :) It was a comment for previous one – lighting of 3D text.

Congrats Europe! The Americans got beaten another time xD

Bueno pues un orgullo para los jovenes de hablas hispana.
Y recuerda Andrés Kramer, la coincidencia , simplemente no existe.

Saludos buddy.

Please, don’t make a Nuke joke.

They didn’t forget to press the “REC” button! ;)

Beautiful result!

Amazing

Yes…. From cataluña…Spanish region…. and not catalunya as a country like somebody said before…

by Muhammad Waseem Ata Attari

Hi to all,
i have no words to share for this IMAGE yar exactally very nice.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/sets/

Here are the rest of the pictures :=)

by Aitor CeReceto

heyy im cataloniann and this is Awesome! :)

huges from Barcelona! :)

there is also this attempt that uses a videocamera. it is also impressive.maybe even more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxX7YxslgSU&feature=related

by Atahan Kiltan

Yeah that was funny

My brother launched a ballon as well, which captured both video and high resolution images: http://www.natrium42.com/halo/flight2/

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