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Well, this not to be interpreted as an attack on you, I'm sure you are quoting the "acceptable opinion" (accepted opinion), the problem is that this is the same kind of stuff they say about the foam, the crew dying instantly, about the shuttle flying sideways (we know the hyper-sonic X-15A-3 crash did anyway), and who knows what else. To publicly say that the shuttle's design and implementation was anything less than perfect is just too politically unacceptable.

If bonemccoy (one of our leading "foam-ologists, as coined by the upper management who "knew better") had worked at NASA and promoted the idea that their flaky-foam design had killed the shuttle, he would have been ridiculed (and in fact he was), his opinions silenced, he most probably would have been demoted and/or fired for not being a "team-player", and the hi-speed, large-foam tests would not have been performed (at least not in the public eye). For me, it's a lot like what I been seeing in the Democratic party, another politically elitist behemoth, the loss of credibility.

I would still like to see the pictures and make my own conclusions, NASA's esteemed opinions notwithstanding.

IRRC , It seems to me that the particular wierd photo(s) were an anomaly associated with wide aperaturs and long shutter speeds with that particular model of camera, some sort of Nikon, or something to that effect.