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Just realized the mirrorless revolution in full-frame digital photography brought about an unprecedented step-change in the quality of vampire photographs.

(Not if you subscribe to the (frankly ill-forgotten and underrated) Ultraviolet series theory)

TIL vampires were major investors in mobile phone photography, made it much easier for them to pass

@retostamm ok but there's extensive film documentaries about that

@danhon Huh. Not that I subscribe to the canon that vampires can't be seen in mirrors, but vampires influencing photography technology could explain in part why photography does pale-skinned people well but not persons of color.

LOL

@danhon Now you have to ask yourself if they're mucking about in AI, too.

I'm going to be laughing about this all day.

@danhon I hadn't appreciated how easy it would be to spot vampires with a kid's periscope toy until you mentioned it.

@mhoye TIL the world's navies' submarines were primarily concerned with the ocean-originated vampire invasion scenario

@danhon Very few people know this - it was highly classified for a long time, you understand - but after the oceanic vampire problem was largely solved by blessing the ocean in the late 40s, turning all but the deepest undersea trenches into holy water, the Cold War was invented in a secret meeting between U.S. and Soviet submarine corps' to justify their continued existence.

@mhoye you know if we keep doing this we're essentially summoning cstross

@danhon "What's the worst that could happen?"

@danhon This sounds like a plot point in a @cstross novel.

@danhon Ultraviolet was a fantastic miniseries, with a criminally young Idris Elba.

@danhon A great show. I was really hoping for a second season.

@danhon Much easier to get the framing/composition right.

@danhon I've said before: you could rig up a pretty simple vampire detector by designing a system which has two cameras, one mirrored and one mirrorless, and automatically comparing their images.

@foone wait are you saying LIGO is actually an—

@foone @danhon This was actually a piece of tech in the BBC series “Ultraviolet” (featuring a young Idris Elba!), which was pretty cool for the most of the series and then went flying off into WTFery at the end. They had a split-mirror gunsight for quick human/vampire identification in combat situations, as well as allium-compound smoke grenades.

@Meyerweb @foone it was such a brilliant thing the first time you see it on screen