How do you turn a camera into a strobe-light?
"Reverse the polarity."
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it's like listening to characters talk in star trek, total *beep*
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I'm embarassed for the script writers. This film makes MacGuyer seem totally plausible.
Want to turn an old bunker filled with rats and rust into the world's most advanced electronic weapons.... without a soldering iron... without testing... in just a few hours? All you need is a hammer!
Good grief...
But that's not your basic Hobby Lobby hot glue gun... This actually made the sound of an electric drill as he rattled it against the gun. Cuz you rattle glue guns, right?
shareThe same way Stark built a flying armour suite with guns and an arc reactor in a cave in butt-fvck nowhere...
With the wave of an ignorant writer's pen and a resounding "fvck you" from the director to the audience, that's how.
to be fair to this movie, building an armored flying suit with an arc reactor in a remote cave of a 3rd world country seems way too far fetched than just doing some rewiring and other sci fi gadgetry with the lights...but nobody picks on a sci fi part of superhero movies anyway, since they are silly to begin with, so why then do the same to supposedly "serious" sci fi?
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Super high frame rate cameras already require extremely special lighting rigs to properly capture the shot. Also certain 3D (RGB+D) cameras (Like the Kinect / Tango and related technologies) cast a tuned dot grid over the area being scanned. This is essentially a big, very carefully implemented flash light integrated into technology that might be sitting within arms reach of you right now. So while I do agree that 'reverse the polarity' is a little bit too simplified of an answer, the idea that a special camera might also have it's own specialized and highly powerful illumination device absolutely is not. No fiction there.
shareWell, far fetched, for sure - but he did say "it already emits strong UV", so it has some form of projector.
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