Originally posted by Bilk22
There's something inherently wrong with that explanation. The camera was not focused on earth. It was focused on the door/hatch they were
monitoring. It then obviously directly pans to the object and then goes off line. It appears the focal length didn't change with the pan. Someone
that was monitoring the camera and the hatch closure manually panned the camera to that object. Do you think they panned to a reflection?
It would be interesting to see the unedited video. I think if you see it you will find that you have false perceptions of what happened.
Here is a hint: look at the ustream logo in the upper right. The changes we see are very clearly video editing as evidenced by the changes in that
logo. I didn't see any panning independent of video editing which also affected the ustream logo.
I think highly of Pauligirl for often finding and linking us ATSers to some great sources, however that was not one of her better finds, so I'm not
really trying to defend everything that source says because there are parts of it I don't agree with either. You may be right about the focal plane
being the hatch, as the hatch does look reasonably well focused and is centered in the frame, as a focal point might be, so I think you have a point
there. However I think the youtube video editor fooled you if you think it was the camera that panned rather than a video edit.
It's such a short clip they should really show it completely raw to begin with, then run it a 2nd time with the editing they want to do.
Originally posted by Bilk22
As for what ever that image is, why would who ever was controlling the camera, pan to it? It does appear the operator noticed it, panned to it and
then realized others may be watching and shut it down.
Youtube video editor, not camera operator.
edit on 15-9-2012 by Arbitrageur
because: clarification