At one point or another we’ve all most likely played around between two mirrors facing each other, dancing and ducking as our reflection appears to repeat infinitely. As most of us know, the same effect can be achieved by pointing a camera at a live feed of its own image. While this phenomenon is certainly nothing new, YouTuber Jong Chool Do has taken this classic illusion to the next level by incorporating tilts, pans, zooms, and even some finger movement to make for quite the orchestrated performance. What may seem like child’s play at first could have you breaking out the HDMI cable by the time you’re finished watching.
Judging by the rest of his videos, Jong is quite the bright minded individual, and proves through this video that sometimes all you need to have fun is your camera, television, an HDMI cable, and a tripod. As a broke college student, I’ve done my fair share of no-budget setups and DIY amusements. Photographers are expert problem solvers, what’s the most mundane things you’ve had fun with? Let us know with a comment.
For more of Jong's tinkering as well as some next-level DIY creations, head over to his YouTube channel.
This is a joke right? I have tons of videos like this shot in the 80's on video8 and even back then I didn't think this kind of obvious playing would merit a news article. I'm always a bit sad when obvious tricks like this are presented as fun new inventions, people are so damn busy with numbers and "best" whatever they forget to play.
Yeah, this popped up on reddit the other day and people were quick to explain how old this technique is. Not to mention how many other (and better) examples there are out there.
This went viral...there was no such thing as "viral" in the 80's. Most of the things that go viral happen because of young people ages 13-18 that are on Reddit, Vine, Instagram. Fstoppers is just cashing in on it.
There was no 'viral" as in using that expression, no. But believe me, copies on vhs, coming together to watch the latest and greatest 16mm/8mm or weird video: it all happened. Just without the massive access the internet gives us, and we had weird art channels on cable tv, I produced 1hour a week for a channel like that. It is where I learned you can explain incompetence or really stupid mistakes as artistic choice :) the latest and greatest was talked about, just like today, just different ways of distribution.
Wow! It got to the point where I couldn't believe this was done with a Camera and Television. So Good!
That's how the original Doctor Who title sequence was made... in the 60's
I was always told any feed back loop was bad for the sensors.
I think I did this the first week of owning my first video camera in the 90s. It's fun, but I'm not sure I understand the reason for the article. Seems not that useful and ground that's been covered for decades.
Thought that was pretty cool! Thanks for the share! Don't know why people are complaining. Not like they are forced to read this article haha. Haters gonna hate.