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originally posted by: DrWily
Okay, I went through the entire thread and tallied up two lists. People who realize (or seem to realize) that it's not fake and likely the result of a wide angle lens, along with people who seem to think it's fake. There is also a ???? list for posters who are hard to call.
Not Fake: 58 total
DrWily
Zaphod58
TrueBrit
chrismir
Chadwickus
MacK80
Shamrock6
mikell
eriktheawful
superluminal11
moebius
Sillyolme
elephantstone
DBCowboy
intrptr
hutch622
rockintitz
EartOccupant
DJMSN
smurfy
redbore
yuppa
SaturnFX
TarzanBeta
tornhill
Roningarou
Limbo
Tucket
ParanormalGuy
ziplock9000
Xtrozero
TheScale
Jokatgulm
NAVSEA
MteWamp
puzzlesphere
Shamrock6
Argus100
Elzon1
OrionHunterX
andrew778
Donner
thedigirati
AtomicKangaroo
Uberdoubter
Soylent Green Is People
face23785
Davg80
UltraMind
EvillerBob
Leonidas
Rob48
LostonEarth
Jobeycool
Dawgishly
OneBigMonkeyToo
arcnaver
dragonridr
Fake: 13 total
WaxingGibbons
Raggedyman (seems to think it's a composite image, specifically thanks WaxingGibbons for posting)
Spacespider (seems to think it's a interior and exterior photo photoshopped together)
YouSir (seems to think it's a composite image, specifically thanks WaxingGibbons for posting)
TruthsSword (seems to think it's a composite image)
bobs_uruncle (seems to think it's a composite image)
Neith (could have been a sarcastic comment, taking literally)
samara11278 (seems to think it's a composite image)
tigertatzen (unclear, but seems to support fake to make a point)
MysterX (Openly supports WaxingGibbon, makes vague claims about other fake photos)
underwerks (seems to think it's a composite image)
AlexandrosTheGreat(Seems to generally think NASA is fake)
eugenics(Seems to generally think NASA is fake)
????: 9 total
darkstar57
GBP/JPY
tayton
ManufacturedDissent
Crumbles
carewemust
ExtraDouble
mangust69
ParasuvO
That works out to the following:
NOT FAKE: 72.5%
FAKE: 16.25%
????: 11.25%
Nearly 3 out of 4 people agree that the photos are not fake and just over 1 in 6 think it's fake. I had actually hoped for a higher percentage on the "not fake" side, but I think it's safe to say that this post has been debunked.
And now time for some laser thumb action
originally posted by: AtomicKangaroo
With all this talk about fisheye I wanted to test something out.
Here's one of the original pics posted.
Here's the same pic after I ran a fisheye correction filter on it. (In this case a correction for a Gopro Hero 4 camera)
While no doubt not corrected for the right camera (I have no idea what the image was taken with) it will hopefully give OP and others an idea of what others are trying to explain when they talk about fisheye distortion. As the 'corrected' image looks more like what one expects from LEO images. Hope this makes a bit more sense for them.
e.g fish eye adds curvature. correcting it makes things appear as they should and less spherical.
originally posted by: oldcarpy
I'm also for the "Not Fake" list.
I would be interested to know why anyone who thinks it is fake might think that. Do we have anyone here who actually believes in FE and think the ISS etc is all faked?
originally posted by: Mogget
WaxingGibbons is correct about one aspect of the pictures though. They do not show a complete hemisphere of the Earth. They only show a portion of it.
originally posted by: Starbunks
I applied the lens correction for a Go Pro 4 to this pic.
The 2nd one is the corrected pic showing the curvature of the Earth like it is supposed to be.
Notice anything?
When we make the horizon look correct, we mess up the proportions of objects in the foreground of the pic.
You would almost think it is a composite of at least 2 different pictures.
originally posted by: Limbo
I came across this. I thought I'd seen the name before.
Are you the guy referenced in this video? (0:16)
www.youtube.com...
Limbo
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: Starbunks
I applied the lens correction for a Go Pro 4 to this pic.
The 2nd one is the corrected pic showing the curvature of the Earth like it is supposed to be.
Notice anything?
When we make the horizon look correct, we mess up the proportions of objects in the foreground of the pic.
You would almost think it is a composite of at least 2 different pictures.
That distortion is a common and could be caused by the use of a wide angle lens. Usually, a wide angle lens image is shown as on a "flat plane", and thus foreground objects look distorted, as in the images below (and your 2nd image above).
The fisheye lens is ultra wide angle, but when the images are arranged to match the curvature of the fisheye, the outer parts (usually the background) are distorted, but the foreground center objects look less distorted. However, if the fisheye is stretched to fit a "flat plane" (is in your 2nd image above), the background "edge" objects look less distorted, but then the foreground objects distort.