mystery of the flying rods

[SkemeKOS]

fake

[arcadia4819]

This is in WIKIPEDIA along with a picture of dozens of "rods"-More pple using these pretty hitec recorders "... investigators have shown that rods are mere tricks of light which result from how images (primarily video images) of flying insects are recorded and played back. In particular, the fast passage before the camera of an insect flapping its wings has been shown to produce rodlike effects, due to motion blur, if the camera is shooting with relatively long exposure times"

[thedemoninmybrain]

genius.

[corndab]

I did see myself some rod larve in pond water!!!....no, really, as you say this nonsense should have disappeared when Mars got as big as the full moon that August!!! Someone should post side-by-side video from several video cameras AND a film camera, shooting same scene, same time, with a control reference visible in all media..why don't people just try the speed settings on THEIR OWN CAMCORDERS, people ,prove it to yourselves...because they WANT to believe, credulity, blind faith, not good...

[TheWanderinSoul]

OMFG!!!!!!!! DID YOU SEE ALL THOSE RODS????? But what I want to know is, what the hell happened to the bugs? Did the rods scare them off? If so, should we be scared too????

[Thopter]

@TheWanderinSoul

no, the bugs sense the camera setting change and shape shift INTO rods silly.

[drewkeener]

I'm glad to see there are people who know about cameras and physics! When a fast moving, lit object flies in front of a lens, there will most often be a blur or doubles after it (especially with slow shutter speeds, slow-mo, and night settings. Nice debunk!

[trousersnake7]

k those are all bugs attracted to the light source and creating a streaks of light on the camera if anyone disagrees then you 100% retarded

[Heath75032]

You may be on to something

[alex95187]

look at all those moths:)

[ThankYouESM]

but the problem with this video explaination... the picture is rather jumpy as opposed to what the alleged has documented.

[fatimazh]

it will be good tome if i captured dis rod

[PunjabiSquad]

its wonderfull and amazing. whoaw.

till today i didn't know this exist

[DrSid42]

It would work like this if you had blinking light at frequency higher (5, 6 times) then the camera FPS. That would happen with security cameras and artificial light.

But some rods were pictures in daylight. While I still think it is the same case (ie, moth), I don't understand the mechanism.

[DrSid42]

Oh .. after watching more rod videos .. the blinking light might not be needed at all. And that is because the wings are glossy. As they move at high speed, they would reflect light into to camera only during part of the cycle, and usually at the same phase. Like that even continuously lit and continuously moving wing could be visible only at regular moments during the flight cycle.

I will experiment with still camera, and free flying insect and sunlgight.

[MrDumesday]

this is one good theory except that no footage of an actual rod caught on film depicts the rod as having any curves in itself or it's flight path. It looks like you're using the odd/even field of video to debunk rods when that theory has already been used and disproven.

[shoak]

where has that theory been disproven? that's a load of bs.