Buffy question
05-07-02 | 07:16 AM
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Buffy question
I'm sure I could find this out somewhere, but I'm hoping someone will answer me.
I thought that vampires couldn't be photographed. I seem to remember some episode of Angel in season one where he couldn't be photographed. I think some photographer wanted him to model, or something.
Anyway, why can the nerds catch Spike on camera? Magic cameras? because of the chip in his head?
Anyone?
I thought that vampires couldn't be photographed. I seem to remember some episode of Angel in season one where he couldn't be photographed. I think some photographer wanted him to model, or something.
Anyway, why can the nerds catch Spike on camera? Magic cameras? because of the chip in his head?
Anyone?
05-07-02 | 07:27 AM
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From http://www.w3pg.com/tv/buffy/high_stakes_vamps.html :
I think it's just a difference between the way the two types of cameras work...
If vampires have no reflection, how can they be videotaped?
Spike had a crony videotape a fight between Buffy and a vampire. Angel had no reflection in glass, and mirrors don't reflect vampire images. Light entering a video camera lens falls upon a CCD (charge coupled device) which outputs an encoded electrical signal to the tape recording part and miniature TV view-finder. A vampire probably cannot be seen through the viewfinder of an SLR camera, as a small mirror is used to direct light until the shutter is snapped. It has been implied that vampires cannot see their own reflections (Willow: "Angel, how do you shave?")
Spike had a crony videotape a fight between Buffy and a vampire. Angel had no reflection in glass, and mirrors don't reflect vampire images. Light entering a video camera lens falls upon a CCD (charge coupled device) which outputs an encoded electrical signal to the tape recording part and miniature TV view-finder. A vampire probably cannot be seen through the viewfinder of an SLR camera, as a small mirror is used to direct light until the shutter is snapped. It has been implied that vampires cannot see their own reflections (Willow: "Angel, how do you shave?")
05-07-02 | 08:10 AM
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Also, some folks take the mythos of vampires and add their own touch to it. Such as the vampires poofing into dust. They do that so that there isn't the worry of constant clean up after vamps are killed.
05-07-02 | 08:13 AM
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Thanks for your answers. I'm just sure that we've already established that in the Buffy-verse, vampires can't be photographed, but now we see them on video. I was just wondering about the inconsistency, but maybe the way the cameras work explains it.
Thanks.
Thanks.
05-07-02 | 09:40 AM
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I think that was a dream, Patman
I believe, that episode was entitled "Restless" at the end of Season 4, in which all the Scoobs had dreams. In Giles's dream, Spike posed for photographs at the circus. It was not real. It was a dream.
05-07-02 | 10:39 AM
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There was an episode of Angel where he was videotaped on a police survelliance camera, and those shots were outputed as stills.
I think mirrors are the only way vampires aren't seen, and that's more of a "mystical" thing. If you took it to the extreme, if there was a scientific reason for them not being photographed, then they you wouldn't be able to SEE them either.
Just the mirrors...
I think mirrors are the only way vampires aren't seen, and that's more of a "mystical" thing. If you took it to the extreme, if there was a scientific reason for them not being photographed, then they you wouldn't be able to SEE them either.
Just the mirrors...
05-07-02 | 11:10 AM
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I'm willing to go along with ctyner's pseudo-scientific explanation.
I could swear they said something once about vampires not being able to be photographed. Given what ctyner quoted about camera's working the way they do, it's logical that they can't be captured on film either, but can be videotaped.
It's all okay.
I could swear they said something once about vampires not being able to be photographed. Given what ctyner quoted about camera's working the way they do, it's logical that they can't be captured on film either, but can be videotaped.
It's all okay.
05-07-02 | 11:21 AM
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I have seen every ep of every show and I honestly do not remember them saying that.
If they did, then I can think of at least three examples off the top of my head that don't support that, so I doubt they ever came out and said it.
If they did, then I can think of at least three examples off the top of my head that don't support that, so I doubt they ever came out and said it.
05-07-02 | 12:11 PM
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Originally posted by Patman
Not all cameras are SLR's.
Not all cameras are SLR's.
As far as vampire photography goes, I assumed from the subject header that it wasn't allowed in the Buffyverse. I couldn't think of any examples offhand where that happened, but a quick bit of research turned up a couple of quick examples ("Helpless" and "Lie To Me"; in the latter, Drusilla is photographed, and after her transformation).
05-07-02 | 12:56 PM
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Kralik.
