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Which is the best camera for shooting UFO's
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OpticsEngineer
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an Olympus Stylus 1.
Very good EVF. One needs that for tracking far away smallish objects. Good zoom with constant f/2.8. 1/1.7 inch sensor. Small enough to carry around everywhere.
I am going to get lucky one of these days. New Mexico is where the modern UFO craze got started. It will be the first place they come when it is time.
Very good EVF. One needs that for tracking far away smallish objects. Good zoom with constant f/2.8. 1/1.7 inch sensor. Small enough to carry around everywhere.
I am going to get lucky one of these days. New Mexico is where the modern UFO craze got started. It will be the first place they come when it is time.
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cosmicnode
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I have had my eyes replaced by bionic implants imported from 2034 Nikon ev6 model, all the photos I have taken are classified so I cant show them or comm_______
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If I'd be dead serious about capturing a ufo, I would always carry an automatic 35 slr camera with a fast uncaped AF 70-200 zoom with the focus collar taped to infinity. Loaded with Fuji 1600 negative color film.
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tom1234567
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Which is the best camera for shooting UFO's
the one you have with you at the time????
the one you have with you at the time????
The best ones are obtained from cops who have confiscated them from motorists, thinking they were radar/laser detectors. It's very hard to convince a policeman that you're UFO hunting. Until they get sucked up into the thing for an exam. Then it's too late. Poor cop, he was really a nice guy...
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What's the best camera for shooting the picturesque natives of those primitive planets?
CQui
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It has to:
- be Black and White,
- have low resolution
- produce bad focus from movement even if the photographer and the UFO are not moving.
- point to the guy who hold it even if the UFO is the other way,
I give up, which camera? (I can never get this things...)
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zackiedawg
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We all know Aliens have technology far beyond ours...I'm sure they have cameras capable of photographing UFOs - they have lots of practice photographing their own craft. So here's the plan:
Move to a trailer in a very unpopulated corner of a western state, and have all your friends stop calling or seeing you. Become a loner, and spend lots of time inside watching TV with the lights out and drinking beer. This will surely lure aliens to come seek you out for special scientific experiments...this is precisely the type that aliens prefer to study. Little do they know, you're only pretending!
Pretend to sleep, so when the bright lights appear all around your trailer, and the small green man with the big head and huge eyes beams into your bedroom, you whip the taser out from under the covers and zap him! Hold him hostage with a good old American sawed-off shotgun (no worries - one probably came with the trailer when you bought it)...and tell the other aliens that you'll blow part of his head off (it's a big head, so even a shotgun probably won't get it all) unless they turn over their best camera system and a manual on how to use it.
Now you can even get photos of them as they're scurrying away and as their craft beams off into space. With their technology, you can probably still photograph them even in space. I'll bet their camera even has ISO 10 million...and unencrypted 14bit RAW. Chances are it's still a Sony sensor, but they probably figured out how to get much more out of it than Sony can.
Move to a trailer in a very unpopulated corner of a western state, and have all your friends stop calling or seeing you. Become a loner, and spend lots of time inside watching TV with the lights out and drinking beer. This will surely lure aliens to come seek you out for special scientific experiments...this is precisely the type that aliens prefer to study. Little do they know, you're only pretending!
Pretend to sleep, so when the bright lights appear all around your trailer, and the small green man with the big head and huge eyes beams into your bedroom, you whip the taser out from under the covers and zap him! Hold him hostage with a good old American sawed-off shotgun (no worries - one probably came with the trailer when you bought it)...and tell the other aliens that you'll blow part of his head off (it's a big head, so even a shotgun probably won't get it all) unless they turn over their best camera system and a manual on how to use it.
Now you can even get photos of them as they're scurrying away and as their craft beams off into space. With their technology, you can probably still photograph them even in space. I'll bet their camera even has ISO 10 million...and unencrypted 14bit RAW. Chances are it's still a Sony sensor, but they probably figured out how to get much more out of it than Sony can.
CQui
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Well, if you can get a clear picture of it, you or someone else will soon or late be able to identify it and it will no longer be a UFO,
OP want his pictures to be UFO certified, your camera has to follow the prerequisites already stated by me.
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Thomas Rose
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The way the question is worded presumes the existence of UFOs, which is far from proven ... at least if by UFO is meant a craft of extra-terrestrial origin, rather than its literal meaning of something flying that we cannot identify.
What surprises me is that after thousands of "sightings" of such UFOs we have very few photos of them and no unambiguous, definitive, totally believable photos at all. The absence of high quality photographs of UFOs should make us suspicious How is it that armies of UFO hunters have failed to provide us with anything better than distant, fuzzy, ambiguous images?
What is even more surprising is that people go UFO-hunting (or military personnel go to check up on sightings) and DO NOT BOTHER TO TAKE A CAMERA! Instead we get eyewitness accounts. Frankly, I am not likely to be convinced by anything less than a detailed photograph or video that passes every possible test to ensure it is not a forgery.
If I ever see a UFO (not that I am expecting to see one any time soon, if ever) I'll whip out whatever camera I have with me and I'll have a high-res image within seconds.
Requirements:
What surprises me is that after thousands of "sightings" of such UFOs we have very few photos of them and no unambiguous, definitive, totally believable photos at all. The absence of high quality photographs of UFOs should make us suspicious How is it that armies of UFO hunters have failed to provide us with anything better than distant, fuzzy, ambiguous images?
What is even more surprising is that people go UFO-hunting (or military personnel go to check up on sightings) and DO NOT BOTHER TO TAKE A CAMERA! Instead we get eyewitness accounts. Frankly, I am not likely to be convinced by anything less than a detailed photograph or video that passes every possible test to ensure it is not a forgery.
If I ever see a UFO (not that I am expecting to see one any time soon, if ever) I'll whip out whatever camera I have with me and I'll have a high-res image within seconds.
Requirements:
- Small and pocketable (so you have it with you)
- Relatively long focal length (so we see more than a fuzzy dot in the distance)
- Good at high-ISO setting (as light might be poor, and you might be using a long focal length)
- Quick to start up (so that you don't miss the shot)
- Battery retains charge well so that when you spot a UFO in six months time you don't find your battery to be dead and the camera unusable. [This suggests a film camera - but a film camera does not do detail and high-ISO so well]
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FIlm is still best as the images are verifiable It is always necessary when possible to show a sufficient amount of the scene, the location, to give some idea of scale.
Pre-Internet days I have vivid memories of all the traffic on the motorway out of Paris on a sunny Saturday afternoon halting in both directions and tens of thousands of us standing on the road gawping at an absolutely huge and very real spaceship, but without being able to include the landscape , or at least a bit of it and the road on the hillside, for which a 12mm or 14mm on a 35mm camera would have been necessary, unless you were yourself there, it would be impossible to gauge its size.
And this is pre-digital, pre mobile phone era. People didn't go shopping with their cameras in their bags then, and nobody carried a Super 8 or 16mm camera at all. Even I, a photographer, had of course left my gear at home.
Unlike Fatima, not being overtly a religious vision, it has been forgotten, but it changed our lives: "Merde, c'est un vasseau spatiale" screamed our driver as she braked before ramming the car in front of us. Unforgettable, not like the crumbs offerred us now!!
Pre-Internet days I have vivid memories of all the traffic on the motorway out of Paris on a sunny Saturday afternoon halting in both directions and tens of thousands of us standing on the road gawping at an absolutely huge and very real spaceship, but without being able to include the landscape , or at least a bit of it and the road on the hillside, for which a 12mm or 14mm on a 35mm camera would have been necessary, unless you were yourself there, it would be impossible to gauge its size.
And this is pre-digital, pre mobile phone era. People didn't go shopping with their cameras in their bags then, and nobody carried a Super 8 or 16mm camera at all. Even I, a photographer, had of course left my gear at home.
Unlike Fatima, not being overtly a religious vision, it has been forgotten, but it changed our lives: "Merde, c'est un vasseau spatiale" screamed our driver as she braked before ramming the car in front of us. Unforgettable, not like the crumbs offerred us now!!
lambert4
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Snap Glasses, that way you can live stream the abductions also.
I've been a night-walker and stargazer for close to 50 years now and only hope your last thought won't be "I wasted my time and money"...
There's for sure plenty to photograph by night, but choose other subjects than ufos, please. And select the gear suitable for the subjects... that G7x certainly wouldn't be my choice for night photography.
Either way, Happy Hunting! :-D
I must say, that is very old school. What, with kites and toy soldier paratroopers being all the rage these days? Just attach LEDs and voila - instant UFO.
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