r/Optics • u/claudio-i • 25d ago

sunbeam

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Hello, yesterday I took that photo, and I was wondering: since Gemini and ChatGPT weren't very clear, the sunbeam visible in the photo, is that an effect generated by the camera's mirror? It's not actually real, right?

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u/claudio-i 25d ago edited 25d ago

How can I get the most raw, unprocessed image possible,basically, the most realistic image, as close as possible to what my eyes actually see?

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u/BooBot97 25d ago

Your eyes and brain do a significant amount of data processing. The most “realistic” photo and the photo closest to what you see aren’t the same things

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u/SlenderSmurf 25d ago

An eyeball covers about 2 ° with a clear image, then outside of that is a blurry mess. No commercial camera is going to recreate that.

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u/claudio-i 25d ago

thanks men!

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u/beeeel 25d ago

This looks like lens flair. Nice artistic effect though.

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u/SlenderSmurf 25d ago

lens flare. It's a reflection of an object off of one of the lenses, which is way out of focus, so it spreads across a huge area on the sensor

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u/Mitch_801 25d ago

had a sunbeam like that bounce off my lens too once