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originally posted by: VulcanWerks
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: play4keeps
Wait, is that distortion from a low end mobile phone imaging chip trying to capture background detail without over saturating the light areas, thus causing them to appear blown out?
Doesn't look like it was captured with high end optics to me. Looks home made.
sorry, but no access to the original images, including the meta data, then no sale.
It’s not the phone IMO.
It’s the way the objects camouflage themselves - from my experience.
I spent a fair amount of money on equipment most people don’t have. I have captured some interesting footage but few “gotcha!” images. And all of my devices record in high quality.
I have a hunch we’re all approaching this wrong. The phenomenon somehow has to do with using light to create camo (based on footage I have analyzed).
There has to be some way to turn it “off” or minimize the effects. If not, at least see the outline of objects that are being obscured.
Said another way, there is a logical explanation for how this works and I suspect the tools to detect it already exist here on earth but are used for different applications (e.g. not hunting craft). Part of me wonders if the military or alphabet agencies are stubbornly approaching the subject the way they would approach a known-earthly foe. If so, they’re probably not going to have much success.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
originally posted by: VulcanWerks
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: play4keeps
Wait, is that distortion from a low end mobile phone imaging chip trying to capture background detail without over saturating the light areas, thus causing them to appear blown out?
Doesn't look like it was captured with high end optics to me. Looks home made.
sorry, but no access to the original images, including the meta data, then no sale.
It’s not the phone IMO.
It’s the way the objects camouflage themselves - from my experience.
I spent a fair amount of money on equipment most people don’t have. I have captured some interesting footage but few “gotcha!” images. And all of my devices record in high quality.
I have a hunch we’re all approaching this wrong. The phenomenon somehow has to do with using light to create camo (based on footage I have analyzed).
There has to be some way to turn it “off” or minimize the effects. If not, at least see the outline of objects that are being obscured.
Said another way, there is a logical explanation for how this works and I suspect the tools to detect it already exist here on earth but are used for different applications (e.g. not hunting craft). Part of me wonders if the military or alphabet agencies are stubbornly approaching the subject the way they would approach a known-earthly foe. If so, they’re probably not going to have much success.
I have touched on previous posts along the way about the need for ways to view brightly lit objects in the sky……
I believe it’s a matter of mating the right filters to the right devices.
Cellphone cameras as of yet….that I’m aware of, do not have “True” filters for the purposes of removing or minimizing blinding brightness. In essence, cellphone cameras are useless to use other than to record and establish that an object of light was physically seen in the sky.
I think we have to think of defining what a bright object in the sky is, in the same way we view the Sun. There are in use, Solar (Sun) filters to significantly cut through the brightness of the Sun to see a more defined body in the space.
Until there are “True” filters (not “Simulated” filters in today’s cellphone cameras and iPads and Apps) that can be “quickly” attached or internally dialed (rotated) in, in front of a cellphone camera lens in the spur of the moment of wanting to capture a bright object in the sky, you’ll always be guessing as to what the object actually looked like behind the brightness.
Example “Simulated” (False) filters(ing) App bundled in an old iPad mini….. IR - Thermal
So then, who is constantly outside with a filtered standard camera, or filtered binoculars (some have cameras built in) strapped around their necks or shoulder hung…. all day, all night?? It becomes inconvenient in a person’s lifestyle.
Also, are there filters in the wavelengths needed to use for flying objects? Are they yet to be invented? Or they do exist only to be used by Classified projects under tighter control then what Night Vision used to be?
…..” Optical filters selectively transmit light in a particular range of wavelengths, that is, colours, while absorbing the remainder. They can usually pass long wavelengths only (longpass), short wavelengths only (shortpass), or a band of wavelengths, blocking both longer and shorter wavelengths (bandpass).”….
UPDATE: Here are 2 possibilities. I can’t speak to the fidelity of the specifications using them for distance such as objects far off into the sky.
👽🛸🔭📷
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
And there in lies….a problem ….“to play with” is the Achilles heal of it all. Sightings are mostly fleeting moments in time.
It’s usually a “hurry up! get the cellphone to video record it or take a still picture of it before it’s gone”.
If exposure time, sensitivity and aperture are all that’s needed to remove the brightness of an object for clarity….. then we should have better pictures presented in this forum. Instead mostly bright balls of lights at a distance is all we mostly get.
I will stick with my assertions that we need filters at the right wavelengths to help reveal what’s under the brightness. The analogy here is NV was developed to see in the dark…. 😉
originally posted by: VulcanWerks
What I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence is that it’s not my equipment that causes blurry photos.
originally posted by: ArMaP
originally posted by: VulcanWerks
What I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence is that it’s not my equipment that causes blurry photos.
Could it be a user problem?
originally posted by: VulcanWerks
I am proficient with a DSLR or a smaller handheld and posses thousands of dollars in camera equipment.
This is a phenomenon issue. But, if you want to drop 10-20k to prove me wrong (before we get to my HD DGI drone) please do.
originally posted by: VulcanWerks
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: play4keeps
Wait, is that distortion from a low end mobile phone imaging chip trying to capture background detail without over saturating the light areas, thus causing them to appear blown out?
Doesn't look like it was captured with high end optics to me. Looks home made.
sorry, but no access to the original images, including the meta data, then no sale.
It’s not the phone IMO.
It’s the way the objects camouflage themselves - from my experience.
I spent a fair amount of money on equipment most people don’t have. I have captured some interesting footage but few “gotcha!” images. And all of my devices record in high quality.
I have a hunch we’re all approaching this wrong. The phenomenon somehow has to do with using light to create camo (based on footage I have analyzed).
There has to be some way to turn it “off” or minimize the effects. If not, at least see the outline of objects that are being obscured.
Said another way, there is a logical explanation for how this works and I suspect the tools to detect it already exist here on earth but are used for different applications (e.g. not hunting craft). Part of me wonders if the military or alphabet agencies are stubbornly approaching the subject the way they would approach a known-earthly foe. If so, they’re probably not going to have much success.
originally posted by: ArMaP
originally posted by: VulcanWerks
I am proficient with a DSLR or a smaller handheld and posses thousands of dollars in camera equipment.
The price of the equipment is less important than the photographer's knowledge, but if you say you are proficient, I can only accept that answer.
This is a phenomenon issue. But, if you want to drop 10-20k to prove me wrong (before we get to my HD DGI drone) please do.
Not possible, I don't have that kind of money or the time to do it. Or even the will to do it, as I'm not really interested in prove a personal opinion wrong.
And, once again, the photographer's knowledge is more important than the price of the equipment, a good photographer can take good photos with a pinhole camera.