{"id":18039,"date":"2020-08-07T05:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T09:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=18039"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:35:58","slug":"down-periscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/down-periscope\/","title":{"rendered":"down periscope &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18040\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/periscope-lens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18040\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18040\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/periscope-lens-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Periscope Lens in Smartphone courtesy of How-To Geek<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Do you remember submarine movies? Somewhere in the plot you would hear &#8220;down periscope&#8221; before a dive alarm sounded. Recently, I was surprised to see the term being used today to refer to a smartphone-sized telephoto lens design,<\/p>\n<p>By using this technique, a lens physically longer than the width of a smartphone can be used. An alternative of a smaller size lens and a smaller sensor instead would cause a deterioration of the image.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about this lens design and why it is needed in today&#8217;s world of smartphones. (It is said that a smartphone camera is the most popular in the world today.) The blog, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/news\/\">How-To Geek<\/a>&#8221; published an article by Harry Guinness on August 4th titled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/683770\/what-is-a-periscope-lens-for-smartphone-cameras\/\">What Is a Periscope Lens for Smartphone Cameras?<\/a>. At the bottom of the page that I linked in this post is a paragraph about Harry Guinness including this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/author\/harryguinness\/\">link<\/a> to his bio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Do you remember submarine movies? Somewhere in the plot you would hear &#8220;down periscope&#8221; before a dive alarm sounded. Recently, I was surprised to see the term being used today to refer to a smartphone-sized telephoto lens design, By &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/down-periscope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[401,3270,740],"class_list":["post-18039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-lens","tag-modern","tag-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18045,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039\/revisions\/18045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}