Re: iChat and iSight

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Alec McKenzie wrote:

> X Kyle M Thompson <kyle.thompson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Graham Lee wrote:
>>
>> >we got one of the new iMacs
>> >and Photo Booth takes pictures the wrong way around;
>>
>> Does it? and here's me sayiing I did't think it did. But now I
>> think about it, of course it does - I took a pic with my aunt and
>> gran on Boxing day (best day to go to the Apple Store - Regent
>> Street empty) and of course I would have noticed is the
>> grandmother to my left appeared on my right... Forgot how mirrors
>> worked for a min.
>
>And how do mirrors work? I am surprised at how many people think
>(wrongly) that a plane mirror produces a left/right inversion.

No, but if Phto Boothe had been a 'camera image' as I had
originally thought it would have been reversed. I'm saying I
forgot mirrors *don't* do that.

I blame sitting at my computer for 10 hours yesterday, and a
further 7 today. Grr, work - who needs it?

kt.
.

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