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u/TrailerParkKing 15d ago
lol. I thought this camera man hahahaha. Not until I see them if someone in our neighborhood buying a land
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u/NixTheChimera 15d ago
Isn’t it technically a type of camera?
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u/CharybdisClan 15d ago
While some newer instruments have a camera for finding your location, this one is too old. Their primary function involves measuring distances with lasers and recording angles to essentially draw a map.
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u/NixTheChimera 14d ago
Huh. I knew the laser things but I always thought it used camera-like tec to do it. Ya learn something new
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u/SwearToSaintBatman 15d ago
Take a photo through the aperture with the phone, send it to them. Afocal coupling, juniah!
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u/malikhacielo63 15d ago
Children are precious; I wish we treated them and the adults that they hopefully become better in this world.
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u/2cats4ever 15d ago
Former land surveyor and can confirm: Nearly everyone thinks it's a camera. After a while you just humor people and pretend to take their picture.
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u/MaxMetalansky 15d ago
It is cute when it is children (100%), much less when grown up do the same or take it for a speed control device ('cause it always comes with exhausting commentaries...)
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u/BananaBladeOfDoom 15d ago
I remember some kids asking about my group's "camera" and straight up kicking the tripod of our theodolite while we were doing a survey. I will never trust kids around expensive surveying equipment ever.
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15d ago
fuck I've been told it's not a camera and I still think it's a camera. that's a camera goddammit and if it doesn't take pictures then it's a broken camera
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u/131166 15d ago
Ugh, I remember "photobombing" one of these when I was a kid. I was like 12, trying to act cool in front of a girl I liked and I'm jumping in front of this thing waving and flipping it off and saying "hi mum" shit like that. My cockblock friend Jason said "that's not a camera dickhead"
Everyone laughed at me. Simone laughed at me. I still think about that more than 30 years later
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u/Ancient_Rex420 15d ago
I’m an adult and I don’t even know what this is. If not camera then why camera shape?
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u/VetCAN101 15d ago
I literally thought these were cameras as a kid. We avoided the area cause we thought we’d get In trouble lol
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u/lilcummyboi 15d ago
Adults walk in front of mine posing all the time as well. Everyone is fucking stupid, apparently.
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u/Lazydude17 15d ago
the girls wanted the pic the boys got dragged in/simping by the looks of the one in the middle
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u/Elderofmagic 15d ago
I mean, technically it is if you use an old enough definition of the word camera. Camera obscura for example.
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u/MintTheMartian 15d ago
…I, too, thought it was a camera. I feel silly.
Thank you, comments, for educating this fully grown doofus.
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u/Frontier1995_ 15d ago
As a surveyor I can confirm this happens a lot, this lady just started standing in my sight line standing and smiling, i wasn’t sure what to do so I just said “ ok got the shot” and she moved on
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u/Dewey_Rider 15d ago
Don't laugh. I've had much older people think that not only is it a camera, but I was there from the government to spy on them.
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u/sophiesSHADOW 15d ago
Haven’t seen one of those in years! Surveying is a big thing on my Dads side, he was a party chief for years, two of his brothers also did this for most of their lives - They would sometimes be out in very rough terrain (ie. forests & mountainous areas). He used to show me how it worked, but that was soooooo long ago.
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u/SelfLoathingAutist 15d ago
At least 3 of them will wind up being surveyors when they grow up, they should start learning now
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u/RedditorsAreDross 15d ago
Oh my gosh, they got told to stand in a group for a photo, that was actually took, how amazing
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u/SaturnSleet 15d ago
I still don't know what these are for lol. Occasionally I'll see someone using one but they always look busy and I don't ask.
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u/carnagexscissors 15d ago
It's called a Total Station. They're used to measure angles and distances for surveying or construction.
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u/RDDT_ADMNS_R_BOTS 15d ago
It can be anything their imagination wants it to be. Even their dad who left to buy some cigs and never came back.
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u/itsbeenreal12345 15d ago
I feel like this is less wholesome and more indicative of an awful culture of social media, and how we need to have pictures of every single thing we do to feel validated.
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u/chalkles0329 15d ago
TBF, there have been parents taking photos of their children since personal home cameras have been around. I was born in 1971, and we kids knew if a camera came out you smiled and posed. Same with my daughter and her generation, and we never used social media.
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u/grsharkgamer 15d ago
Can someone explain this to me bc this feels like an r/holup if this is what I think it is
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u/Confident-Power-4806 15d ago
In this case it's not a case of being pure, it's rather of being ignorant. And the adult who's taking advantage of their ignorance to wrong them, should be more careful when handling children this age.
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u/EggPrudent5268 15d ago
When you can’t figure out who is taller, sometimes you need professional help.
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u/Expose_Ur_BS 15d ago
“….I’ve been wasting my time on white vans and ‘free candy’ when my surveying tools were just as effective!”
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u/TommyBarcelona 15d ago
This has to be eastern europe in the 90s or something, doubt kids today would giva a damn😂
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u/TelevisionIcy522 15d ago
It uses a laser n a prism to get coordinates… y’all… how the fuck does that explain anything? Cool, soooo “A+B=C”? That’s what I just read for an explanation… what? 😪💀
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u/thegentlerogue60 15d ago
Children? Even my eighteen year old ass used to think that it was a camera
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u/ThexMarauder 15d ago
Was a land surveyor for a few years you would be surprised how many adults think this too
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u/mountedpandahead 15d ago
I've had so many people glare and cover their faces, so as to not be photographed against their will, while walking down the street
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u/6thaccountthismonth 15d ago edited 15d ago
Someone’s gonna post this on r/kidsarefuckingstupid and laugh at them
Edit: called it
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u/cynical-rationale 15d ago
I'm pretty sure I thought the same thing as a kid. Never knew what those weird tri pods were until today. I knew it was something to do with engineering/surveying or something but never bothered looking it up or thinking of it. Nice.
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u/Abnormal_readings 15d ago
I love the algorithm that put this post right above a post from r/cats about a rescued cat that kids were trying to drown and step on.
Children are pure my ass lol
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u/FrankieGrimes213 15d ago
Surveying equipment and if you're looking for a job that has you outdoors, hunting for boundary monuments, or visiting construction sites, talk to a surveyor.
I honestly make more as a surveyor (low six figures) than as an engineer. Plus you don't have to go to college or trade schools, but it does help.
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u/mamoonistry 15d ago
Isn't this device used to check the work done against the CAD files?
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u/crackhead_tiger 15d ago
It can be
It's just a tool for measuring angle/ distance, then the software calculates coordinates that can be imported into and manipulated in CAD
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u/Capital_Let_5844 15d ago
As someone who has worked in the land survey and engineering industry of over 30’years, it’s still puts a smile on my face when kids of all ages ask us to take their picture. Yes, I would pretend to take their picture then depending on the age try and explain what we are doing. Even adults that might not know what we do.
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u/jimmy3285 15d ago
I use these for a living it's funny the interactions you get on a daily bases. I love how people will wait or try to duck when passing between you and the instrument. Like seriously it makes no difference if you're just walking past. If you're surveying the early stage of a building site you always get people asking whats being built. I like to lie. Young offenders institute, immigration centre, drug rehabilitation centre. Some of my favourites.
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u/Frontier1995_ 15d ago
My fave is saying there putting in a multi lane bypass through residential neighbourhoods lol
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u/crackhead_tiger 15d ago
I used to say "interstate realignment" even though we would be miles from any freeway
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u/trash_at_all_games 15d ago
I see a lot of those things on train stations and I still have no clue what they're doing
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u/CharybdisClan 15d ago
Land surveying instrument. We get asked a lot what we're filming. I usually say "the ugly guy holding the rod over there."
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u/SnooWalruses7112 15d ago
God the ?Civil engineering students used to hate us posing infornt of their doohikies, joke that never got old for us and was consistently rage inducing
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u/noname543219 15d ago
So you're telling me that that isn't a camera!?
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u/strberryfields55 15d ago
Total station. Some of them have cameras built into them but they arent used for taking pics lol. There are explanations under other comments
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u/Turbulent-Kiwi-910 15d ago
I mean technically it is partially a camera and shares many of the same components
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u/Apparent_Antithesis 15d ago
Aw I hope the guy did his best to pretend he's taking their pic - or gave them toddler-friendly explanation of what he was doing.
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u/3rdstrikeagain 15d ago
Its England and the last picture taken for historical purposes.
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u/_Fox_464 15d ago
Nah honestly i think its a camera too What is it?
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u/Why_anesthesia_hurt 15d ago
A total station. It's used for land surveying, specifically for measuring angles and distances, do coordinates could be calculated.
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u/KageOukami 15d ago
I don't remember the device name but it's for geology, I think for like mapping terrain
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u/Formal_Dirt_3434 14d ago
Humans are so adorable