Three Legs Or One Leg? 5 Pairs People Mix Up (Part 4) - Video

A flashbulb burns metal foil once and is then thrown away. A speedlight fires again as soon as its capacitor has recharged. Five pairs, two real photographs each, and one detail that settles it.

Which pair did you get wrong? Name it in the comments.

You get to look before you are told. Two photographs go up, the question stays on screen while you decide, and then the one detail arrives. Three legs against one leg is what the thing can do on its own, since the tripod stands by itself and the monopod only takes the shake out of your hands. Macro lens against close up lens is a lens against a filter, one built to focus close and the other screwed onto the front of something else. The pinhole against the glass lens is the one worth waiting for, because with no lens there is nothing to focus, so near and far arrive equally sharp and equally dim.

IN THIS PART
- Three Legs or One Leg
- Bellows or Extension Ring
- Pinhole or Glass Lens
- Macro Lens or Close Up Lens
- Bulb Flash or Speedlight
and it stops in the middle of Flash Shoe or Cold Shoe, which Part 5 starts again from the beginning.

THE FULL VIDEO
This is Part 4 of 5, cut from "SLR Or Rangefinder? 23 Cameras Pairs, One Detail Each". The other Parts and the whole video in one sitting are both on the channel: youtube.com/@EigenBox

HOW THIS WAS MADE
Every photograph is listed below, with the author named on every one whose licence requires it. Nothing is generated: each pair is two real photographs of the two real things, and every panel was checked against its own label by eye rather than by filename.

Eigen Box: maths and physics, argued visually.

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IMAGES
All from Wikimedia Commons, in the order the pairs appear. Each is credited as its licence requires; the file page carries the full text.
- Tripod (photography). Ashley Pomeroy. CC BY-SA 4.0
- Monopod. Kapege.de assumed. CC BY-SA 2.5
- Bellows (photography). Alvesgaspar. CC BY-SA 3.0
- Pinhole camera. Ian from Moscow Russia. CC BY 2.0
- Camera lens. Bill Ebbesen. CC BY 3.0
- Macro photography. Helmut Schütz. CC BY-SA 2.5
- Close-up filter. JD Hancock from Austin, TX, United States. CC BY 2.0
- Flashbulb. Gotanero. CC BY-SA 4.0
- Speedlight flash unit. Bubba73 (Jud McCranie). CC BY-SA 4.0
- EOS 350D Hot-Shoe. Jailbird. CC BY-SA 2.0 de
- Cold shoe. Sumitsurai. CC BY-SA 4.0
Public domain or CC0, where no credit is required: Extension tube.