rynner said:
The pictures are good, but the accompanying 'explanation' is just ungrammatical blather!
True, enough...
Well, it is definitely shot with a camcorder that was made
within the last few years... it is 720 pixels by 480 pixels...
that is the digital cam aspect ratio (the older cams were
only 640 x 480 -- at least in my experience.)
The frame rate HAS to be 30 frames-per-second if shot in
the US (NTSC format) or 24 fps if shot in the UK (PAL format.)
All video cameras are stuck with these frame rates. (Except for
the new HD cams that George Lucas is using on Episode 3!)
Film cameras, however CAN shoot at different frame rates.
Since you can see the "blank" lines that alternate down the picture, you can tell that the person is capturing a "field"
(2 fields make up one frame -- the difference in each field is
what makes the "motion" smooth when you view a video
at the appropriate rate.) The one issue I have with this series
of "photos" (technically, still fields of video) is that very
often, those missing lines create a "jittery" type effect when viewed on a video monitor... could that have contributed to
the "rod" type effect?
I put the 5th photo into Photoshop and used the "deinterlace" filter... this is what I commonly use to get rid of this "jitter"
effect in freeze-frames of video. Many of the insects smoothed out, but a few retained the classic "peapod" shape.
(I'm not sure what the legal ramifications of posting someone elses photos are... otherwise, I'd attach it here!)
This makes me very confident that many rods are indeed
an insect/animal that is flying past the lens as the person
who shot this video "meant" to say.
TVgeek