Author Topic: Invisible Camera... ? (Read 6294 times)

original_ann · « **on:** March 23, 2011, 05:35:39 PM »

This is utterly astounding!!! I just can't figure out if it's all a sham...

http://fstoppers.com/the-invisible-camera-your-mind-will-be-blown/

LT · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2011, 05:52:45 PM »

Ann - the text says:

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Hopefully some of our more technical readers can explain this to me since I have a feeling it’s going on sale a week from this Friday

check the date of 1 week this friday.

LT · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2011, 05:54:47 PM »

sounds like the perfect next imqossible product though.

LT · « **Reply #3 on:** March 23, 2011, 06:03:58 PM »

The problem is, he gets all the technical stuff arse-about-face:

First he says the film is much slower than 100 ISO - 1/500 ISO in fact. So this would make it so slow it would be virtually unusable - especially in a pinhole! but then he implies that this means they need a really fast shutter ... but of course they wouldn't as the film is really slow, not really fast.

Then there is all the pixel stuff, when has that ever had anything to do with film resolution?

Nice attempt, but could try harder. B Minus.

Mojave · « **Reply #4 on:** March 23, 2011, 06:36:47 PM »

Yeah, but he gets a capital E for Effort because wow, what an elaborate hoax. He even has his own website. I wonder what the gotcha will be for actually signing up to be a field tester.

LT · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2011, 06:38:41 PM »

shall we all do it? Just for larfs?

Mojave · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2011, 06:47:48 PM »

Might be kind of fun. Im sure there has to be some kind of gotcha. I just hope it wouldnt be anything seriously career damaging. You know, like a full article in Time magazine, the cover of which read something along the lines "Desperate analog photographers grasping for straws fall hard for invisible camera hoax."

Mojave · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2011, 07:28:22 PM »

Just thought of something else. Trying this camera and its revolutionary new film out could put an entirely new spin on the whole film wasting idea.

astrobeck · « **Reply #8 on:** March 23, 2011, 07:30:59 PM »

I'm going to sign up. I'm always game for some fun April Foolery!

Mojave · « **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:16:29 PM »

Ok then, Im game!

Mojave · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:22:48 PM »

Oh, this is just funny. They are saying that they expect us to return the film and not develop it ourselves. I bet this has something to do with the gotcha. They will create bogus images and say they were our exposures or something. What a hoot! I wonder if all the pictures will come out to be of aliens or something. HAHAHA!!!

astrobeck · « **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:38:50 PM »

Would be cool if they were LGM. (Little Green Men)

Time will tell!

sapata · « **Reply #12 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:18:59 PM »

That's clever ! You get invisible images with an invisible camera !!

Francois · « **Reply #13 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:59:01 PM »

Will it also take pictures of the invisible man?

Mojave · « **Reply #14 on:** March 23, 2011, 10:03:07 PM »

LOL!!! I am so enjoying this thread.

sapata · « **Reply #15 on:** March 23, 2011, 10:56:42 PM »

Quote from: Francois on March 23, 2011, 09:59:01 PM

Will it also take pictures of the invisible man?

Not only that ! Imagine the man himself using one those ?? He's been waiting for one of those far too long... I bet he's the first one to sign up for a trial...

original_ann · « **Reply #16 on:** March 24, 2011, 11:42:00 AM »

Haha! Thanks Leon - Oh what a let down when I saw those comments below about "a week from Friday" (after I'd posted this). I rather wanted to believe the impossible could become possible!

... so wait... so people CAN see that I'm in my skivvies when holding this camera?? Uh-oh!

)

mijonju · « **Reply #17 on:** March 24, 2011, 12:12:07 PM »

he even made a video responds to my show

For the Mijonju Show

hahaha he is just joking around

Francois · « **Reply #18 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:02:18 PM »

Somehow, I feel uneasy about the original video.
As much as I would like to believe this to be true, I have a hard time finding evidence it could work. If it does, it could be some Nobel winning stuff. It would mean that the film is coated with a nano engineered product which lets all wavelength get through to the film yet protect it from light coming from all sides...
This could be done using polarization... which would make the camera partially opaque.
It could also be done by having sideways grown t-grain...
Or having a membrane of straw like tubes long enough to act as a shade on the film...
Or desensitizing the film so it is only sensitive to coherent light... but that would mean exposing with a laser...

Too bad the site doesn't show a video of the taking and processing of a print in one long take...

astrobeck · « **Reply #19 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:16:43 PM »

I still think it's a April fool's joke, but I have been wondering:

How to make a grain of silver nitrate distinguish between a photon
coming from one direction vs another?

If indeed this could be done, then we could well be on our way.......

I'm sure there is advanced technology out there in the universe somewhere where this might be commonplace.

And if this is truly a joke, then they really pulled all the stops to make it appear valid. There is a Sebastien Fray at the Plank Institute, and he does work with quantum optics.

LT · « **Reply #20 on:** March 24, 2011, 04:05:53 PM »

Quote from: Francois on March 24, 2011, 03:02:18 PM

Somehow, I feel uneasy about the original video.
As much as I would like to believe this to be true, I have a hard time finding evidence it could work. If it does, it could be some Nobel winning stuff. It would mean that the film is coated with a nano engineered product which lets all wavelength get through to the film yet protect it from light coming from all sides...
This could be done using polarization... which would make the camera partially opaque.
It could also be done by having sideways grown t-grain...
Or having a membrane of straw like tubes long enough to act as a shade on the film...
Or desensitizing the film so it is only sensitive to coherent light... but that would mean exposing with a laser...

Too bad the site doesn't show a video of the taking and processing of a print in one long take...

are you serious Francois? It's an april fool. Dont waste your brain energy on this ... get contrapting instead

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #21 on:** March 24, 2011, 06:57:14 PM »

Francois

Don't listen to Leon, you know you can make the film for this!

Mike

edthened · « **Reply #22 on:** March 24, 2011, 09:04:40 PM »

Och tae bee perfectlie 'onest wi yoozz, a dinnae see it ever beein a success

Francois · « **Reply #23 on:** March 24, 2011, 09:32:15 PM »

Quote from: edthened on March 24, 2011, 09:04:40 PM

Och tae bee perfectlie 'onest wi yoozz, a dinnae see it ever beein a success

Never underestimate TIP's minions in their plans for world domination

LT · « **Reply #24 on:** April 01, 2011, 10:40:52 AM »

I guess they had us all fooled .... or maybe not.

http://www.theinvisiblecamera.com/fieldtest/index.php

Francois · « **Reply #25 on:** April 01, 2011, 03:33:59 PM »

Well... I for one am slightly bummed out. Even though I didn't believe in it, I really would have liked to see something like this work.

As Adam Savage often said: "I like being wrong"

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #26 on:** April 01, 2011, 03:45:33 PM »

Well, it took me long enough to get over the shock of the Tooth Fairy not being real. This ranks up there - I'm glad that I read the news sat down with a gin in my hand,

Lino · « **Reply #27 on:** April 01, 2011, 06:17:00 PM »

aw, nuts!

i would've loved being wrong on this one too

Mojave · « **Reply #28 on:** April 01, 2011, 07:20:10 PM »

Darn, I was hoping they'd carry it further than this. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

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