Flashaholic Oddities: Have You Noticed...

...that when you see someone else holding one of your powerful flashlights, you get to take in the full brightness more so that just controlling and holding the beam yourself? Odd how lights seem brighter when other people use them.

...that if you turn a flashlight on, tailstand it on a flat surface with the beam hitting and ceiling and then drag it, you can see the beam on the ceiling appears to move less than how far you are sliding in when viewing it at its base! That is so weird! It looks like two dimensions where the flashlight base in one dimension (viewed from the bottom) is moving more while the other dimension (the ceiling) is moving less. So friggin weird! lol

Maybe my pain meds are just working on me! :pLaughing

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What the... you're right. Weird beam illusion.

Any explanation on the beam not moving as fast?

Just joking Joe!

I notice if handled by someone else mine looks bigger.

Seriously, the beam moves slower than the base of a light slid along--and it really doesn't matter that I took another pain pill. lol

It’s because the beam is much wider than the flashlight so there’s much more movement on the ceiling than the few inches you moved the base.

I found out it has to do with human behavior and/or physics. The illusion will not happen if the light is truly erect all the time, as expected. It seems we have a tendency to point the beam in one position even if our light(hand) moves. When I put my light in a small plastic can before moving it the illusion disappeared.

Some things I have noticed...

When the beam is pointed up in the sky and I walk away from the light it looks like its right over head.

My eyes will color-calibrate to a very broad range of color tints. My warmest incan will appear plain white... until I shine a pale white tint LED next to it.

That's not an illusion, they all get bigger when handled buy someone else. It must have been well handled too, since it set your hair on fire.

Also perception of color depends on the intensity of light.

I won"t take that the wrong way LOL

Keith

I've noticed I love a 4B tint

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