reply to post by ArMaP
Sorry ArMaP,
Being a bit sloppy today
All of the footage posted on this thread is fake.
Just taking the OP's fake footage (the others have already been discussed elswhere)...
Here's a cropped screen shot from the OP's footage:
Notice how parallel it is with the frame edges - suspicious IMO. Either that, or it's firing "at" the camera man - yeah right... lamp post with a
grudge
Then there's the perspective problem. If the beam is firing towards you, keeping in mind lasers are supposed to be more or lees parallel beams of
light, why does it not look like it's narrowing, the further away it gets? Sloppy work IMO
Here's a blow up of the object and "beam":
Notice the "anomaly" where the "beam" emerges from the object. It suddenly thinns. Sloppy work IMO.
Then there's the "laser" itself. As anyone who has used a laser knows, you can't see the beam
unless there are substantial particulates in
the air - ie smoke, dust, mist, fog.
Look at the other lights. When the air is not clear, you'd see halos and general haziness around the lights. You don't, so it's obvious the air is
clear, and there are virtually no particulates in the air - ie, you wouldn't be able to see the beam under these conditions... if there was one.
To say this is a camera anomaly is laughable, and I know the other photographers on here will agree. It screams fake, just like all the other "object
firing lasers" footage that has started cropping up does. "Laser beams firing" like this is one of the easiest things to fake, almost anyone could
do it using photoshop etc, but to make a good job of it and make it look authentic, is actually quite hard, especially when the faker knows little or
nothing about how lasers actually appear to look under various conditions.
[edit on 23-11-2008 by C.H.U.D.]