Friday, May 17, 2013

Weekend Humor: Canon Firmware Bug Renders All Photos of Musicians as Their Instruments


This is a brief excerpt from thePhoBlographer




Weekend Humor isn’t meant to be taken seriously. So don’t, ya rube.

It was supposed to be a standard firmware update for Canon, but due to a few sleeping interns, it was one that produced unsavory results. A line of code was accidentally slipped into the update that triggered the camera’s microphone when taking still images. The sound received then screwed with the sensor in that it changed the content of the image. Canon-toting concert photographers everywhere noticed this when their photographs rendered musicians as the sum of their parts.

Devon McNally was on assignment for Rolling Stone at Mumford & Sons’ Edinburgh gig when he realized that something wasn’t quite right with his 5D Mark III. “I was there thinkin’, ‘Man, I love their banjos.’ And I was getting all of these great shots. At least, I thought I was,” McNally told us. When he brought the images into Lightroom back at his flat, he saw that something had gone horribly wrong. Every photo of the band was just a pile of banjos on stage. The number of banjos per photo varied depending on when during any given song he took the shot. Some photos …



By: Julius Motal


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