Okay. Here's an experiment you can perform: Get a small Styrofoam cooler, an old cell phone and a weather balloon. Drill a hole in the cooler, and position the phone's camera out the hole. Set the camera to take pictures every ten minutes, and upload the pictures to the internet. Attach the weather balloon, and fill it with helium.
Alternatively, go to the observation deck of a tall building.
In both small craft airplane, and full-size commercial. But I'm sure my pilot uncle was in on the conspiracy, and made sure his windshield was the proper fish-eye variety. No way that would've been noticeable from the ground.
Thats not a fisheye lens, however, 99% of all lenses kinda fisheye. The only way to get a true picture is to use Optically Correct lenses, which I havent seen manufactured now as much as they were in the 1970s. So yeah, grab any camera you want now and at far distances everything bends. Whats coincidental is that further than that, your eyes are not perfectly optically correct either...
All pro photographers know this, especially corporate photographers for architectural and large-scale engineering work, those pictures have to be corrected digitally because sufficient enough semi-fisheyeness uses less lenses and groups to manufacture. And when optical or digital Optical Correctives are applied, it straightens out objects at a further distance that the human eye had seen curved.
Our eyes are not a straight throughput stream, like a tube or something, its biological, spongy, and electrical. The back of the eye sees the world upside down, the left eye is received by the right brain and the right eye is received by the left brain, and the brain flips the input rightside up and combines them. Does that sound as simple as a camera lens to a CMOS plane?
Okay. Here's an experiment you can perform: Get a small Styrofoam cooler, an old cell phone and a weather balloon. Drill a hole in the cooler, and position the phone's camera out the hole. Set the camera to take pictures every ten minutes, and upload the pictures to the internet. Attach the weather balloon, and fill it with helium.
Alternatively, go to the observation deck of a tall building.
I challenge you to take a telescope to the beach and experiment.
I don't need to. I've been in an airplane. I've seen the curvature of the earth.
Through a fisheye window no doubt.
In both small craft airplane, and full-size commercial. But I'm sure my pilot uncle was in on the conspiracy, and made sure his windshield was the proper fish-eye variety. No way that would've been noticeable from the ground.
Go look again. Take a video while you're there.
Should I keep looking until I'm convinced I can see five lights instead of four?
Have a friend drive a boat out of range where you can't see them and they go over the horizon. Then use your fancy telescope and wala.
https://youtu.be/7ae_XdFEQDw?list=PLybg94GvOJ9GEuq4mp9ruJpj-rjKQ_a6E
Check his debunking playlist for more flatter destruction.
Ok... So go to the beach with your telescope, have a friend drive a boat 20 miles, then look with your telescope. Voila.
why don't you? You are the one making the assertion that you will be able to still see them.
I've already done it. Go fucking try it don't take my word for it
Thats not a fisheye lens, however, 99% of all lenses kinda fisheye. The only way to get a true picture is to use Optically Correct lenses, which I havent seen manufactured now as much as they were in the 1970s. So yeah, grab any camera you want now and at far distances everything bends. Whats coincidental is that further than that, your eyes are not perfectly optically correct either...
All pro photographers know this, especially corporate photographers for architectural and large-scale engineering work, those pictures have to be corrected digitally because sufficient enough semi-fisheyeness uses less lenses and groups to manufacture. And when optical or digital Optical Correctives are applied, it straightens out objects at a further distance that the human eye had seen curved.
Our eyes are not a straight throughput stream, like a tube or something, its biological, spongy, and electrical. The back of the eye sees the world upside down, the left eye is received by the right brain and the right eye is received by the left brain, and the brain flips the input rightside up and combines them. Does that sound as simple as a camera lens to a CMOS plane?