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Originally posted by miniatus
Also keep in mind that we're talking about INTERNAL REFLECTION and light bouncing off the barrel of the camera .. this can cause unusual optical artifacts with the lens flares..This isn't like just aiming your average camera at the sun and shooting.. Couple that with the fact that this artifact ONLY appears on the image that has been processed ( the embossed image ) .. You don't see this "object" in the second camera aimed at the same space... this means there's no object there..
This narrows down the possibilities
A) It's either an internal light reflection in the first camera that isn't in the second camera, entirely possible since they are separate devices.
B) It's an artifact introduced by the processing that the image is going through
Or as I suspect
C) A combination of A and B
There's clearly not actually an object there...
edit on 1/1/2012 by miniatus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheMur
You gotta love how many many many images are debunked as lense flares etc, I guess we should state then that all images taken threw lenses are all flares, nothing more. At this point we can say that you would have to see something with your own eyes to belive it,and if you do say you saw something people will ask for camera or video footage and we find our selfs going full circle, ...you get it yet?
Originally posted by TheMur
You gotta love how many many many images are debunked as lense flares etc, I guess we should state then that all images taken threw lenses are all flares, nothing more. At this point we can say that you would have to see something with your own eyes to belive it,and if you do say you saw something people will ask for camera or video footage and we find our selfs going full circle, ...you get it yet?
Originally posted by TheMur
You gotta love how many many many images are debunked as lense flares etc, I guess we should state then that all images taken threw lenses are all flares, nothing more. At this point we can say that you would have to see something with your own eyes to belive it,and if you do say you saw something people will ask for camera or video footage and we find our selfs going full circle, ...you get it yet?
Originally posted by TreehouseIndustries
Originally posted by TheMur
You gotta love how many many many images are debunked as lense flares etc, I guess we should state then that all images taken threw lenses are all flares, nothing more. At this point we can say that you would have to see something with your own eyes to belive it,and if you do say you saw something people will ask for camera or video footage and we find our selfs going full circle, ...you get it yet?
I think its perfectly rational to question the authenticity of digital images and to not accept things on face value, I work with digital footage every day and am not at all surprised that most "UFO" images can be explained as image aberrations or damage to the equipment taking the image. this thread is an excellent example of "I want to believe"
Its foolish reductive logic to assume everything is a lens flare but when it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck its most likely an imaging aberration. I want a UFO to land in my back garden as much as the next person but doesn't it keep us stuck on the fringe of rational discussion to leap to conclusions that prove everything seen is a spacecraft coming for earth.
Originally posted by Destinyone
Originally posted by TheMur
You gotta love how many many many images are debunked as lense flares etc, I guess we should state then that all images taken threw lenses are all flares, nothing more. At this point we can say that you would have to see something with your own eyes to belive it,and if you do say you saw something people will ask for camera or video footage and we find our selfs going full circle, ...you get it yet?
LOL...yup it appears that way. I'll tell you...if ever a UFO lands in my front yard, and ET comes strolling out.
I'll grab his happy grey A$$, and drag him to ATS headquarters, and let them deal with all the skeptics here.
Until that happens, I'm content with the caliber of healthy discussion here. I still rely on my own gut feelings regarding some post. but, I always take in all the valid scientific data presented.
Originally posted by britelite1971
Originally posted by Destinyone
Originally posted by TheMur
You gotta love how many many many images are debunked as lense flares etc, I guess we should state then that all images taken threw lenses are all flares, nothing more. At this point we can say that you would have to see something with your own eyes to belive it,and if you do say you saw something people will ask for camera or video footage and we find our selfs going full circle, ...you get it yet?
LOL...yup it appears that way. I'll tell you...if ever a UFO lands in my front yard, and ET comes strolling out.
I'll grab his happy grey A$$, and drag him to ATS headquarters, and let them deal with all the skeptics here.
Until that happens, I'm content with the caliber of healthy discussion here. I still rely on my own gut feelings regarding some post. but, I always take in all the valid scientific data presented.
The receptionist will probably look at you and ET and say..."another lens flare, sign in and take a seat."
Originally posted by Unknown Soldier
Just another case of youtube pareidolia imo,