Comments on: Place the Photographer (a math/photography challenge) http://www.jansch.nl/2009/10/08/place-the-photographer-a-mathphotography-challenge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=place-the-photographer-a-mathphotography-challenge Just another WordPress site Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mathias http://www.jansch.nl/2009/10/08/place-the-photographer-a-mathphotography-challenge/#comment-1486 Mathias Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:24:07 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/?p=2131#comment-1486 May I suggest putting a ruler in front of the camera and snap a photo to see how much of the ruler will end up in the shot, then calculate the angle which the lense would follow. Using that using that angel get the distance from the tower using Tan(angle)/(height of tower) = distance from tower I know nothing of cameras and hardly remember the trigonometry but Wikipedia know a great deal about it :) I hope u can use any of it? Good luck anyway May I suggest putting a ruler in front of the camera and snap a photo to see how much of the ruler will end up in the shot, then calculate the angle which the lense would follow. Using that using that angel get the distance from the tower using Tan(angle)/(height of tower) = distance from tower

I know nothing of cameras and hardly remember the trigonometry but Wikipedia know a great deal about it :)

I hope u can use any of it?

Good luck anyway

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