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Amarnath S6-Jan-24 0:19
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trønderen7-Jan-24 15:38
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jmaida wrote:
Still trying to fully understand the camera play.
What is difficult to understand?

The guy writes on a transparent surface (glass or plastic - that doesn't matter) with some sort of pen that leaves very solid lines on the glass. Because the camera sees the writing from the back of the glass, it appears mirrored, written from right to left. So the electronic mirror the mirrored image, which is trivial: Just scan the lines in the opposite direction.(*) The text comes out the right way.

Also, the guy is mirrored. But as the camera sees him directly through the glass, he is not mirrored, to the camera. So when the processing mirrors both text and man (by scanning lines backwards), he comes out mirrored: His right hand, which writes the text, looks like a left hand.

If you want to see the scene the way the camera saw it, watch your screen via a mirror, and you will see that the guy is right handed.

(*)
Mirroring is so trivial that my first digital video camera, bought in 1997, did it in the camera. I had an underwater house for it, but there was no way to use the ocular viewfinder from outside the house. The camera had a large foldout LCD viewfinder screen, but you couldn't fold it out inside the house, and it would not be easy to see from outside. But you could flip this screen around and fold it back to the camera body, with the image side pointing out, straight to the left. Then the viewfinder image flipped to mirrored.

Why? The house had a clear window right in front of the screen. On the outside of the house was a mirror that would fold out 45 degrees. When I looked into that mirror from the back end of the camera, I saw the mirror image of the LCD viewfinder inside the underwater house. Since I viewed it via a mirror, the LCD image had to be mirrored to come out the right way to my eyes.

This was done 25+ years ago in an amateur video camera. Doing it with today's electronics is probably even simpler than trivial.

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