Width, son.
The mic is shaped like a big RED PILL.
Think of the width: it’s on a table straight up and down, and you’re looking down at the top. The width is the diameter of the circular dimension.
In one of those photos, the microphone looks like its diameter is nearly that of a basketball, you could imagine someone more athletic than ol’ Mr. Trunalimunumaprzure, palming it like a basketball.
Real microphones, just ain’t that WIDE.
And if you argue perspective, then how come BiteMe’s *hand* doesn’t grow out of all proportion to the rest of his body when it crosses in front of it?
The laws of perspective are being demonstrated differently, for two different objects, supposedly at the exact same distance from the camera.
That’s called a shallow fake.
Right, width. The diameter of a basketball is just over 9 inches. The diameter of the mic windscreen I linked is just over 6.5 inches. These are roughly on par, and the windscreen in the video may well be bigger than that. So I’m not sure your size argument works.
When you include the windscreen, that mic is probably a little bigger than a 10 lb. fire extinguisher. That’s bigger than you’d expect, which would make it easy to misjudge scale and distance in the scene.