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Zooming In on Orb Photos and Getting Fooled by a Pumpkin
from The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422 · #422
4 min
They examine viral drone/orb photos, question whether phone camera zoom distortion explains them, and Joe tells an embarrassing story about excitedly showing people a 'drone' photo that turned out to be a Halloween decoration shaped like a giant certain object.
- Photographer claims a 600mm lens captured the orb photo, presenting himself as a 61-year-old paid photographer with 20 years of experience.
- Tim questions what the image actually shows, wondering if it's a drone or something else entirely.
- A Sony A camera is identified as top-of-the-line equipment, with additional evidence including video from a plane showing orbs above clouds with illuminated objects.
- Tim considers whether this technology might be military testing in advance of a potential conflict with China.
- Discussion of how phone zoom features create squirly distortions when magnifying lights in the sky, making them unreliable for evidence.
- Samsung's 100x digital zoom capability compared to Apple, with Tim noting the Samsung performs significantly better when zooming in on objects.
- Tim admits he got completely fooled by a photo he thought was a drone over his friend's house and was showing it to people as evidence.
- People called him an idiot after he realized what he'd been showing them as proof of a drone sighting.