To: JoeProBono
It's a bug. Sheesh. Those cameras have infrared LEDs to illuminate the scene. Those LEDs are pulsed on and off very rapidly. (Waive your LED alarm clock around, and you'll see the strobe effect.)
A bug flew across the frame as the still picture was exposed, and so you got the multiple strobe effect of the bug.
Reminds me of the mysterious "rods" that people were videotaping when small digital camcorders first hit the market.
5 posted on
08/28/2010 1:41:41 PM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
A bug flew across the frame as the still picture was exposed, and so you got the multiple strobe effect of the bug.Most plausible answer.
11 posted on
08/28/2010 1:48:35 PM PDT by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: Yo-Yo
“... the string of lights to appear in the photos, taken over a timespan of almost two hours...”
Don’t think your bug theory fits the case.
To: Yo-Yo
Agreed. I’ve seen that effect before. Odd though that it’s in basically the same place in the 2 pics I saw, but still a bug, bird or something.
14 posted on
08/28/2010 1:50:04 PM PDT by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts are holding The Constitution together as the Loose Screws of The Left come undone!)
To: Yo-Yo
19 posted on
08/28/2010 1:55:32 PM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: Yo-Yo; All
It's a bug. Sheesh. Those cameras have infrared LEDs to illuminate the scene. Those LEDs are pulsed on and off very rapidly. (Waive your LED alarm clock around, and you'll see the strobe effect.)
A bug flew across the frame as the still picture was exposed, and so you got the multiple strobe effect of the bug.
Is that you, Philip J. Klass?
Gosh, everybody thought you died! LOL
29 posted on
08/28/2010 2:12:55 PM PDT by
mkjessup
("Wait by the river and your enemies will float by" - old Japanese proverb, and I'm waitin'.)
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