Our boy does some explaining about photographing vamps.
I guess that I'm a little slow. Can anyone explain why vamps shouldn't photograph? I can see them, so they must reflect light onto my retina. Why wouldn't they reflect light onto film?
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
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Rick - Jun 03, 2004 4:06:08 pm PDT #207 of 10001
Invisible Green - Jun 03, 2004 4:08:09 pm PDT #208 of 10001
Why wouldn't they reflect light onto film?
Well, they don't reflect into mirrors.
Wolfram - Jun 03, 2004 4:24:11 pm PDT #209 of 10001
Visilurking
I think a better question is, does the photo have a reflection?
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2004 4:27:12 pm PDT #210 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, they don't reflect into mirrors.
What does that have to do with being photographable, though?
DXMachina - Jun 03, 2004 4:28:28 pm PDT #211 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Well, they don't reflect into mirrors.
Photographic film is not a mirror. The only difficulty I can see in photographing a vampire would be if you were using a single lens reflex camera, or similar, which uses a mirror to get the image to the viewfinder so you can compose the shot. Once you push the button to take the picture, though, the mirror flips up out of the way, and the light coming through the lens goes directly to the film.
Rick - Jun 03, 2004 4:30:36 pm PDT #212 of 10001
I think a better question is, does the photo have a reflection?
Ah, a lawyer with a scientific mind. Dangerous! This would resolve the competing theories.
libkitty - Jun 03, 2004 4:34:15 pm PDT #213 of 10001
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I think a better question is, does the photo have a reflection?
Sounds like an experiment waiting to happen to me.
Then there's the whole pesky breathing thing.
Wolfram - Jun 03, 2004 4:34:27 pm PDT #214 of 10001
Visilurking
Ah, a lawyer with a scientific mind.
Shhhh, not so loud. I do have a rep to protect.
pulls up collar
Polter-Cow - Jun 03, 2004 4:36:36 pm PDT #215 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I came across an old away message of mine. It went like this:
Watch Wonderfalls! For fuck's sake, do it before I punch you!
Mr. Broom - Jun 03, 2004 4:39:07 pm PDT #216 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Another vampire thingy (non-Buffyverse) claimed that the reason vampires couldn't be seen in mirrors was the same reason they (in this universe) couldn't be photographed--the Native American belief that photgraphs steal a piece of your soul turned out to be true, and vampires lack souls.
Naturally, this little bit of info has no bearing whatsoever on this thread, but I figure my first post should be good and wordy.