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Note: This can be a risky move if you don't study this ahead of time and know the pros and cons of these actions. Everytime you go this deep, you are responsible for risking your phone's condition, its warranties, and its phone services if any. Be cautious!
I started off by watching several YouTube clips where certain people place their own digital camera/camcorder along a railway. Within a minute or two, they allow a moving train to run over it! For some videos, their cameras stood still. But for everyone else, cameras survived but got tipped over during movement.
And then came this past Memorial Day late morning, just minutes before I drove to work (still had plenty of time). Yeah, miles away from home. I took my Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone which also had HD camera and camcorder capability. The same phone also had active service from T-Mobile and the phone itself was pretty slim. So, I finally placed my smartphone to the test. I did set to record on 720p, so everything you see is straight through the lens of my smartphone as it sits between the rails. A fast stack train led by Norfolk Southern was at least a mile and a half away from my camera's position, so I had to make sure I had enough time to get my phone in place. You have the first minute of basically everyday modern nature! This ranges from vehicles on the highway to chirping birds singing a sweet, sweet song! And then finally, the question (yes, read the title!) is being answered. Watch and learn:
And so, on my very first try here, it survive untouched and it's still full-functioning. How? The first thing I did was use the railway itself to my advantage. There are large blocks of wood with rocks in between. The key here was that as slim as my phone was, I had to move some rocks around to reveal a deep spot next to a nearby block of wood. For the touch screen, I laid that along a block of wood. For the back part where the lens were facing the train, I moved some rocks again so that my smartphone was decently held in place. If I did not do this ahead of time, my smartphone would've been facing up the whole time as flat as it was. While some used digital camcorders, these are smartphones with HD capabilities we're talking about here! After hundreds of playbacks, I feel its sense of adrenaline rush everytime.
There can be mixed reviews about these kinds of things which I also took into consideration when I studied this whole thing. It's between cool and stupid, depending on your view. Take my word that there's no stupidity involved as long as you study things through before hand, the way I did here, and everything's cool. Thanks for watching, reading, and understanding.
I started off by watching several YouTube clips where certain people place their own digital camera/camcorder along a railway. Within a minute or two, they allow a moving train to run over it! For some videos, their cameras stood still. But for everyone else, cameras survived but got tipped over during movement.
And then came this past Memorial Day late morning, just minutes before I drove to work (still had plenty of time). Yeah, miles away from home. I took my Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone which also had HD camera and camcorder capability. The same phone also had active service from T-Mobile and the phone itself was pretty slim. So, I finally placed my smartphone to the test. I did set to record on 720p, so everything you see is straight through the lens of my smartphone as it sits between the rails. A fast stack train led by Norfolk Southern was at least a mile and a half away from my camera's position, so I had to make sure I had enough time to get my phone in place. You have the first minute of basically everyday modern nature! This ranges from vehicles on the highway to chirping birds singing a sweet, sweet song! And then finally, the question (yes, read the title!) is being answered. Watch and learn:
And so, on my very first try here, it survive untouched and it's still full-functioning. How? The first thing I did was use the railway itself to my advantage. There are large blocks of wood with rocks in between. The key here was that as slim as my phone was, I had to move some rocks around to reveal a deep spot next to a nearby block of wood. For the touch screen, I laid that along a block of wood. For the back part where the lens were facing the train, I moved some rocks again so that my smartphone was decently held in place. If I did not do this ahead of time, my smartphone would've been facing up the whole time as flat as it was. While some used digital camcorders, these are smartphones with HD capabilities we're talking about here! After hundreds of playbacks, I feel its sense of adrenaline rush everytime.
There can be mixed reviews about these kinds of things which I also took into consideration when I studied this whole thing. It's between cool and stupid, depending on your view. Take my word that there's no stupidity involved as long as you study things through before hand, the way I did here, and everything's cool. Thanks for watching, reading, and understanding.
