In a way, this is a case of "photographer photographed." It is a photo of the webcam that has been placed on the roof of the beautiful old building that dwells the office du tourisme.
You can see what is taking place on la Place de la Comédie here.
The problem is the system used by Viewsurf, the company that installed the webcam, shows a few seconds' sequence "en boucle" (loop sequence?) for a few minutes and changes it for another few seconds' sequence, etc.
Personally I think it is not a very good system. If you have a webcam in your city which works in real time as a camera is supposed to work, please let me know. I will tell the mayor :-))
I hate seeing modern things on beautiful old buildings--and I dislike surveillance. (Although I understand the need for it.)
RépondreSupprimerIt's not surveillance, it's promotion. But Marie's right: the image is terrible. There are tens of thousands of webcams that show real time, and I didn't know this wasn't one of them on my last trip, so I sent e-mails to folks around the world, figured out a time that'd be convenient for the majority, and went to the Comédie to wave to them. That's when I found out about the loop. Really stupid, because people actually do tune in webcams to watch stuff happening in real time.
RépondreSupprimerI don't mind too much (just a bit...) with those cameras! But it looks some kind of insanity (to say the least) to put them in such a way on beautiful monuments...
RépondreSupprimerI understand the need but the loop thing makes no sense.....Nice shot though!
RépondreSupprimerHmm, don't like the idea of cameras watching mostly innocent people, whatever the reason.
RépondreSupprimerYes quite strange. Just watched a scene from 9.20pm several times over. I prefer ones that are either in real-time or just show a still whether updated every few minutes or once an hour.
RépondreSupprimerI've got links to my favourite webcams at http://geraldengland.co.uk/ge/camlinks.htm My favourites are Chester, Nuuk and Warnemunde.
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