Newsflash: f0.0 lens and photography
ziggy53
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Yeah, right!
I found this site where this guy claims to have developed a system which provides f0.0 and allows the photography of things "2 seconds into the future".
http://www.mudhaus.com/f00.html
Nevermind that f0.0 is functionally and mathematically impossible.
He has photographs of the supposed procedure:
http://www.mudhaus.com/camera.html
which he claims (left photo) show him injecting "Cesium gas" into the lens. In actuality, it appears he has attached a can of "Dust Off" or similar to the PC connector of a lens. (Most people probably don't know that some lenses have PC connectors on them.)
The copyright of the opening page shows, "© 2001-2012 MUDHAUS". "2012"?
This guy is either joking or disturbed. Anybody know which it is?
ziggy53
I found this site where this guy claims to have developed a system which provides f0.0 and allows the photography of things "2 seconds into the future".
http://www.mudhaus.com/f00.html
Nevermind that f0.0 is functionally and mathematically impossible.
He has photographs of the supposed procedure:
http://www.mudhaus.com/camera.html
which he claims (left photo) show him injecting "Cesium gas" into the lens. In actuality, it appears he has attached a can of "Dust Off" or similar to the PC connector of a lens. (Most people probably don't know that some lenses have PC connectors on them.)
The copyright of the opening page shows, "© 2001-2012 MUDHAUS". "2012"?
This guy is either joking or disturbed. Anybody know which it is?
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Now back to the 0.0, true it is not feasable but I guess you can "round down." Stops below 2 would go 1.4, 1.0, .7, .5. .35, .25, .17, .12, .8.... yea I can see how even rounding off would not work. "Rounding off" .8 to zero is an infinite number of stops away!
Does anyone know the maximum f/stop of the human eye?
As per the f-stop of the human eye, I'm not sure but it would be fun to know. Me personally, I'm tired of a fixed focal length eye. I don't want a prime eye, I want a zoom eye!
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Magnification-wise we have a 200mm eye. Walk outside and you can resolve the detail that a 200mm lens on a 35m camera would give you.
Perspective-wise we have a 50mm eye, the standard depth expected between objects.
Totality-of-view-wise we have an 8mm eye. We have peripheral vision that extends to 180 degrees on most of us.
No wonder eyes are so expensive.
The new Canon F0.0 L 400mm DO IS!
There might be issues when using the onboard flash though
Here's a view of it mounted on a 20D...
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zigy53
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That alone shows that it must keep going. Can you believe that people think they are seriously chosen at random to recieve this email & that it is true
The engineer in me can't help but in all politeness say that this is the biggest bunch of hooey I've seen in a while.
I agree that the eqpt photo looks like he's injecting Dust-Off into the lens. I suspect that's exactly how that photo was taken -- it was sooooo convenient that the gas cannister was completely out of focus, wasn't it?
Let's assume for the moment that he actually *DID* inject cesium gas into the lens. According to the BBC article (if that's even on the up-and-up), the beam of light emerged from the Cesium gas about a few billionths of a second before it entered. Well, for the camera setup, even if true, "who cares?". Keep in mind, there's already a built-in time delay of about 1 nanosecond per foot just for the light that makes up the image to travel from the object to the front of the lens, so light from an object 10 feet away already took 10 nanoseconds to reach it.
Notice that he hasn't made sure that he's even using the same type of gas as the British researchers and no measurements have been done to validate that he obtained the same result. Or for that matter, that it would even have the same effect using his set-up (or as the Brits might say, "using his kit").
The scary part is that this guy probably read the BBC article and actually believes that he's taking time-travel photos!! ....Not that that should surprise anyone, because the USA is obviously way under-educated in the sciences ... the stuff that people believe without question just blows me away. PT Barnum would just as correct today (about one being born every minute) as he was during his own lifetime.
The other possibility is that this guy actually knows better, but is taking advantage of the public by using this unproven "science" to create lots of P.R./market buzz about his photos. That's somewhat unethical, but he would know that the police won't exactly be breaking down his door over it, either.
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