INCREDIBLE ZOOM | Nikon P1000 | Ben Lomond | Scotland
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as an eye-opening demonstration of how much a consumer camera can resolve at long range, relevant to privacy and surveillance threads.
What it is
Footage shot with a Nikon P1000 superzoom camera showing extreme optical zoom on distant targets from Ben Lomond in Scotland.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends 14 · 2023-10 · on “Ask HN: How hackable are the Meta smart glasses?”
Really who cares if they can discretely take your photo out in public. You have no expectation of privacy in public and totally legal to take someone’s picture. In fact if they had say a Nikon p1000 they could very clearly take your picture from a mile away. Check out this zoom test and you can see people 3.5 miles away it will blow your mind. From a mile it would be trivial. [this video]
Cites 14 · 2020-09 · on “'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland”
I was just looking at the zoom of the Nikon p1000 and from over 3 miles away you can easily zoom in and read a piece of paper. Even if these people don’t want someone recording them on the ground, a camera could literally be so far away they would not even see it recording them. It just seems ignorant. I pretty much assume I am being recorded at all times and act as such. Too many hidden cameras, security cameras and cameras so good I would not even see them in action. [this video]
Cites walrus01 · 2021-03 · on “Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place”
Unless something dramatic changes in the field of optics, lenses and how to deal with atmospheric blur at those distances, resolving features smaller than 15-20cm from low earth orbit remains a low probability. Take a look at some youtube videos of a Nikon P1000 at maximum zoom looking through ordinary atmosphere at some distance away for an example. [this video]
Cites IceWreck · 2021-03 · on “Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place”
> Take a look at some youtube videos of a Nikon P1000 at maximum zoom looking through ordinary atmosphere at some distance away for an example. [this video] This is unbelievable.