@qurlyjoe Spiritually, I probably should have embraced the "geeky star wars" self, but I think I was quite concerned growing up as being seen as too geeky. 🤔
I would, however, quickly pick up an old Graflex camera flash if it were a good price. (The last one I ran across, sadly, was priced into the stratosphere, as the folks selling it knew what they had).
Snagged that photo off eBay.... let's see how much detail we can get out of the reflection. Crop to the flash. Rotate to the image. It appears we have a person in a room with a ceiling fan, perhaps sitting in a dining room, kitchen to their left (view right). Male. Stereo behind their right shoulder. Cell phone camera... ;-)
Remember in the movie BLADE RUNNER when Deckard keeps zooming into the photo and goes around a corner? I remember thinking "that's too much of a credibility reach." Oh well!
@tomjennings@ai6yr I figured it was doing some futuristic reverse ray-tracing analysis of the image. One can see the matte lines in the vfx of the enhance sequence as it reveal parts of the room that weren’t captured in the photo (but were somehow derived by the enhancement machine in the logic of the film). It’s an even greater leap than the later imitators in film and tv that just say “enhance” and clear up a blurry photo.
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