I recently found out Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator of Mario and Zelda) likes to carry a tape measure around with him, guess how big things are, and measure them to check how close he was
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I have a small keychain laser measurer that I originally bought to use when calculating focal distance with manual camera lenses.
But I find I'm often whipping it out to randomly check how far away I am from random things.
It's oddly very fun.
Do you have a brand or link for that? I’ve yet to see a keychain sized one
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
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Do you have a brand or link for that? I’ve yet to see a keychain sized one
Once I manage to stop hitting the snooze button and crawl my lazy ass out of bed I'll take a photo of it. I bought mine at Canadian Tire. Should be similar in any hardware stores.
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Do you have a brand or link for that? I’ve yet to see a keychain sized one
I lied....in my brain it feels smaller than it is because ive gotten used to it. But now that I actively look at it again, "keychain" sized is a bit of a stretch.
Although I do use it on my keychain, so maybe ive just gotten accustomed to it.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
I’m a carpenter. We love to do that too.
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how big were their dongs?
They were of a size that made measuring necessary. Whether that is big or small is something I'll let you decide for yourself.
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I have a small keychain laser measurer that I originally bought to use when calculating focal distance with manual camera lenses.
But I find I'm often whipping it out to randomly check how far away I am from random things.
It's oddly very fun.
I did the same thing lol trying to learn how to hyperfocus, now i keep it at work in my tray of knick knacks and every time someone sees it they start measuring and guessing and don't believe things are certain distances
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I lied....in my brain it feels smaller than it is because ive gotten used to it. But now that I actively look at it again, "keychain" sized is a bit of a stretch.
Although I do use it on my keychain, so maybe ive just gotten accustomed to it.
Mine is like three times that size so I would call it Keychain sized too haha
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
It's five inches. Always, only five inches.
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Mine is like three times that size so I would call it Keychain sized too haha
I eventually did invest in a bigger boy to carry in my filming kit that can store two measurements at once. It's super handy when you've got two subjects and you need to rack focus between them.
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Whether software, electrical, aerospace, or civil… engineer gonna engineer.
You left out the two most important types, Passenger and Freight
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
Just when I didn't think that it was possible to like this guy more.
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I lied....in my brain it feels smaller than it is because ive gotten used to it. But now that I actively look at it again, "keychain" sized is a bit of a stretch.
Although I do use it on my keychain, so maybe ive just gotten accustomed to it.
Thank you internet stranger. It is pretty small. What are the maximum and minimum distance on this? Most of my lenes go to infinity around 40’ but close focus varies.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
The great thing about carrying a purse is that I can have a tape measure and small flashlight wherever i am. and a mushed up granola bar "for emergencies." and so on. can never find a damn pen, though.
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I’m a carpenter. We love to do that too.
Ditto, I've always got one with me anyway, now it's for fun as well as work
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Thank you internet stranger. It is pretty small. What are the maximum and minimum distance on this? Most of my lenes go to infinity around 40’ but close focus varies.
9 meters max. But as far as focal distance goes, if you have to measure anything more than about 5 meters away, you're just throwing your focal ring to unlimited anyway on most lenses.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
If you realllly get into it. Or if you're into plant ID: you can tattoo a little ruler onto your hand. e.g., along your index finger. Makes it easy to get pictures of plants to scale.
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9 meters max. But as far as focal distance goes, if you have to measure anything more than about 5 meters away, you're just throwing your focal ring to unlimited anyway on most lenses.
Thanks, i can’t seem to find that exact one but just knowing there are small ones is great, I usually see the half brick sized ones and that would be too inconvenient to use for photos. That almost seems mountable.
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Thanks, i can’t seem to find that exact one but just knowing there are small ones is great, I usually see the half brick sized ones and that would be too inconvenient to use for photos. That almost seems mountable.
That almost seems mountable.
Exactly why I bought it. I originally had a screw mount attached to the back of it, which could attach it to the side of my camera cage lined up with the sensor. Basically a laser scope for my mirrorless Lumix.
And this was a few years ago. It still uses the old micro-usb even. So there's probably going to be a newer version.
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If you realllly get into it. Or if you're into plant ID: you can tattoo a little ruler onto your hand. e.g., along your index finger. Makes it easy to get pictures of plants to scale.
The tattoo will eventually get a little inaccurate, but still seems like a good point of reference.Adam savage has a ruler tattoo on his arm.
