So your head's more like a camera? (Destiny)

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Thursday, August 06, 2015, 12:48 (3495 days ago) @ uberfoop
edited by iconicbanana, Thursday, August 06, 2015, 12:59

Which way would you press the tripod head to tilt it down?

Which part?

Ha! Probably should have been more specific:

On the back side I'd press up to tilt it down, but I'd also press left to turn it right, and whatnot. You'd have to invert both axes to get consistent behavior.

On the front side I'd press down to tilt down, up to tilt up, left to turn left, and right to turn right.

I'd never really thought about moving a camera from the lens, good point sir. I should clarify. When we're talking about Inverted controls, we're talking about rotating the camera around the x-axis (with the x axis being the horizontal axis). So with the original example:

The x axis is the middle of the image, at the pivot point of the tripod head; the z-axis is horizontally passing through it, the y-axis is vertically passing through it. I always think of the stick on a controller of a video game console like the head of a tripod, or any lever around its pivot point. When I press forward I'm rotating around that x-axis. The camera will tilt forward, panning down. With an fps, that corresponds to leaning forward, and looking down. The same would be true of pitch with a plane, although as you've mentioned elsewhere, that's where that comparison ends (unless you're doing a barrel roll).

Likewise as you've mentioned, this is all very arbitrary, as the human brain can sort all of this out for itself. I was mostly just carrying on a longstanding tradition of arguing about things of little consequence on the internet. And here we are.