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09/21/2009 06:00:50 PM · #1 |
Article.
...this guy's $1.2 billion yacht has anti-photography lasers! Yowzers. |
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09/21/2009 06:08:17 PM · #2 |
Here's a shot of the actual yacht being launched: the illustrated yacht in the OP link is the guy's FORMER yacht, *only* 377 feet or something like that...
//www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1192640/Admiral-Abramovich-launches-300million-mega-yachtski-The-worlds-biggest-submarine.html
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Message edited by author 2009-09-21 18:09:40. |
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09/21/2009 06:11:38 PM · #3 |
| This surely must some scare tactic. Aim a laser at a camera somebody is holding up to their eye? Good recipe for a big ol' lawsuit, if the thing even exists. |
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09/21/2009 06:16:31 PM · #4 |
| Who needs anti-ccd lasers when the Russian Mafia are only a phonecall away. |
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09/21/2009 06:20:29 PM · #5 |
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09/21/2009 06:52:59 PM · #6 |
| Reminds me of the anti-paparazzi purse. |
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09/21/2009 07:12:02 PM · #7 |
I'm just trying to figure out how this is supposed to seriously work, assuming it's not just a hoax in the first place...
It scans... For CCDs... and then fires a burst of LASER at the CCD it detects. Ummm, yeah. So, think about that for a second. To simplify some factors, it's specific to paparazzi, which typically use DSLRs. You're talking about taking a photo of a freakin' yacht, so it's probably day time, and you're shooting at maybe 1/1000 ? Let's be generous and say you've stopped down and shooting at 1/250. So this system can, all in 1/250 of a second, scan an area, identify a CCD sensor "reflection" of some sort, AND fire out a directed blast of light directed AT that CCD-- I can' even finish the sentence, that sounds so insane.
Not to mention that, if I'm a paparazzi, I'm probably using a tele lens, and shooting people *on* the yacht, so I'm shooting tight with a very small angle of view. I'd have to get this magic device actually *in* my shot for it to be able to "detect" my CCD (let's not even ask the question of "what about CMOS," etc.) and blind my sensor. Unless these scanners/lasers are mounted every 3 feet along the handrails, I just don't see (har har) how it's going to work.
I'm just thinking "BS" from every possible angle (heh - no pun intended) on this one.
The purse I can reasonably 1/2 believe might actually work some times... But an "anti-paparazzi" laser system on a boat? C'mon...
Message edited by author 2009-09-21 21:09:39. |
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09/21/2009 08:43:37 PM · #8 |
I certainly would live on that boat. WOW!
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09/21/2009 09:23:48 PM · #9 |
I changed my mind...
Message edited by author 2009-09-21 21:27:48. |
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09/21/2009 09:28:16 PM · #10 |
See Next Post
Message edited by author 2009-09-21 23:13:00. |
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09/21/2009 09:29:02 PM · #11 |
ok then I will change my mind too.
Originally posted by Bugzeye:
perhaps he has another security feature that automatically photoshops photos taken of the boat to change the appearence. lol
Originally posted by CEJ:
The photos look like two totally different boats. |
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09/21/2009 09:39:09 PM · #12 |
| Looks more like a battleship. |
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09/21/2009 09:55:30 PM · #13 |
What's also amazing is that Abramovich aged one year during the reading of that article. First he's 40 years old; ten sentences later he turns 41. I'm glad I don't age that fast. ;-Þ |
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09/21/2009 10:10:06 PM · #14 |
He aged that quick when he found out how much his boat was going to cost him. lol
Originally posted by Pug-H:
What's also amazing is that Abramovich aged one year during the reading of that article. First he's 40 years old; ten sentences later he turns 41. I'm glad I don't age that fast. ;-Þ |
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09/21/2009 10:27:39 PM · #15 |
I agree with  cdrice, the only time it would be able to detect the CCD is if the mirror is up.
I would like to take a large highly reflective mirror and put a CCD or two on it. If there was such a laser it would bounce the beam back and burn his but.
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09/21/2009 10:57:40 PM · #16 |
| Crazy thing. That's a guy worried about his open sea nudity. |
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09/21/2009 11:26:23 PM · #17 |
| Well it looks like the lasers failed miserably!! Who took this pic? It did not get destroyed. |
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09/21/2009 11:30:29 PM · #18 |
Hmm ...
Don't spy satellites use CCD sensors? Can't they read a postage stamp from orbit Don't they look down on such things as ships at sea? Roll back the roof with you and the mistress in bed? (Aren't we apt to violate DPC terms of service??!!?) Wonder if these sensors and anti-papparazi lasers point up?
Inquiring minds want to know!
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09/22/2009 12:11:47 AM · #19 |
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09/22/2009 12:47:14 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by JH:
Looks more like a battleship. |
If I were a Somolian Pirate it would be on my top ten
list of "I want", right a position one. I'd ask for
300 million in ransom. |
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09/22/2009 12:54:58 AM · #21 |
| I smell hoax. Such a system would require detecting a passive, postage-stamp sized sensor that doesn't really emit much of anything from several hundred yards away through a dozen elements of a long lens, and then target and respond within the 1/2000 second shutter flip of a full sun photo before the mirror comes down and renders the laser useless for anything but blinding a photographer who would then sue you for yachts of money. Anybody wanna buy a bridge? |
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09/22/2009 03:22:02 AM · #22 |
| Worst case of over-compensation I've ever seen. Poor little fella... |
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09/22/2009 03:38:02 AM · #23 |
He sailed in to Auckland on this a few years ago in this, Le Grand Bleu
It has a 67 foot speed boat on one side and 74 foot sailing yacht on the other side.
He is a generous man because he "gifted" this boat to a friend & new current owner shortly after these photographs were taken. |
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09/22/2009 03:46:07 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
I smell hoax. Such a system would require detecting a passive, postage-stamp sized sensor that doesn't really emit much of anything from several hundred yards away through a dozen elements of a long lens, and then target and respond within the 1/2000 second shutter flip of a full sun photo before the mirror comes down and renders the laser useless for anything but blinding a photographer who would then sue you for yachts of money. Anybody wanna buy a bridge? |
he would be dead by now since his phone should use camera. |
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09/22/2009 05:13:36 AM · #25 |
So how were the photographs in the article taken????
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