Weird photographic effect -- can you explain it?
Charles says:
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I thought I'd solicit the help of the boing boing community in explaining a weird optical illusion in a photo I took.
I was travelling in a Bombardier turboprop plane recently, looked out my window and saw the propeller. Thought it would make a nice picture, so I took out my cameraphone.
The picture is attached. Unphotoshopped. There are propeller blades that appear to be floating, and that appear in a path that is outside the normal path of the propeller. Not sure what to make of it.
I've got a few other photos showing the same thing, but I'm enclosing the most dramatic one. Can anyone explain what's going on?
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I have been trying to get an explanation on how this works. Glad I found someone else trying to figure this out.
Looks like the linked page has already been killed with spam :(
..oh no, my mistake. There's lots of healthy discussion down the page a bit.
It's not a very clearly designed site.