Bright Light caught on Camera. Explain this?

reply to post by wigit


With all the bubbles I guess. It's a pretty picture. So what does it mean when it says the lightsource is unknown?? Doesn't it known when it is a lantern, bug, or flash??

Make
SONY
Model
DSC-W120
Aperture
3.2
Exposure Time
1/50 (0.02 sec)
Focal Length
7.6 mm
Flash
On, Return not detected
File Size
93 kB
File Type
JPEG
MIME Type
image/jpeg
Image Width
640
Image Height
480
Encoding Process
Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample
8
Color Components
3
X Resolution
72
Y Resolution
72
YCbCr Sub Sampling
YCbCr4:2:2 (2 1)
YCbCr Positioning
Co-sited
Exposure Program
Program AE
Date and Time (Original)
2011:08:05 19:34:08
Max Aperture Value
2.8
Metering Mode
Multi-segment
Light Source
Unknown
Color Space
sRGB
Custom Rendered
Normal
Exposure Mode
Auto
White Balance
Auto
Scene Capture Type
Standard
Contrast
Normal
Saturation
Normal
Sharpness
Normal
Quality
Normal
F Number
3.2
Exposure Compensation
N/A
ISO
800
Compression
JPEG (old-style)
Orientation
Horizontal (normal)

Sorry I'm clueless about camera data. Would be great if instead of "unknown" it said genuine alien craft or Highland midges caught in flash. We'd be fighting over a camera that did that.

But if it helps, all the dots and bubble-like things in my photo are the same thing, they just look different because of distance but were all pretty close to the camera flash. The hugest are the closest, the tiny ones probably no more than 2 feet away, maybe a bit more.

reply to post by wigit


Mine was 2 blocks out. That's why I can't see it being a flash back from my camera. It was too far. And can't be a firefly, they don't glow that far.

You'll probably never know exactly what that was, just keep your camera handy anyway. Mine is loaded and at my side all the time, just in case.

reply to post by Manhater


Since you seem quite sure what the bright object isn't...........what do you think it is?

reply to post by Argyll


An unexplainable bright light.
I've seen the faded orbs and it don't look like no faded orb.

reply to post by Manhater


how do ypou know it was two blocks away ? PS how big is a " block " ??????????

Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Manhater

 

how do ypou know it was two blocks away ? PS how big is a " block " ??????????

Given that the OP has already stated that no light was there and they didn't see until they looked at the picture on the camera, I was just going to ask the same thing.

Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Manhater

 

how do ypou know it was two blocks away ? PS how big is a " block " ??????????

From the image it looks to be pretty far out there. That tree is 2 houses down from me and it seems to go past that.

It's something caught in the flash guys.

Move along.

Originally posted by moonrunner
It's something caught in the flash guys.

Move along.

I'm confused by your sig. Am I supposed to 'Bellow' something out or should I condsider that 'Below' me?

I've had a good look at the OPs photo in Photoshop. its hard to make out any defined shape but I do still believe its a bug.