Poll: Do Photos Do the Giant Squid Justice?

[Clem]

Well? Are you satisfied with the first ever photographs of Architeuthis alive in its domain, or bitterly diasppointed that it wasn't captured in the medium of your choice?

Please weigh in.

Clem

 

[William Tyson]

vids would be nice, but as they say beggers cant be choosers, and we have been beggin for a long time.

 

[joel_ang]

The photo's were rather disappointing IMO... Also a pity that it had to lose a tentacle.

 

[Architeuthoceras]

What I wouldnt give for 550 jpg's of a live ammonoid, almost as good as soft tissue preservation. Looking at the photos as a flip show probably shows a little more animation than was actually present. All in all they do show a live animal with pics as good as those the Mars rovers are sending back, from a place almost as distant.

 

[Jillykim]

Anyone emailed the good doctor to find out if he could render a film from the images? Hoe many frames pers second were the pics taken at?

 

[um...]

1/30 fps, I think. Not very revealing, but it would still be cool to see.

 

[Steve O'Shea]

... it was video, in a sense, but as the Right Honourably, Regal-Footed Sir Dr Ummmm..... points out, it's all about frames per second.

Remember, this was done on a shoe-string budget; things are SO about to change. This is when we sit down and chew our nails .... will it be that little yellow rectangle organisation, or will it be Discovery Channel? Nail chew, nail chew, nail chew .....

 

[DHyslop]

This is when we sit down and chew our nails .... will it be that little yellow rectangle organisation, or will it be Discovery Channel? Nail chew, nail chew, nail chew .....

...as if there's any difference.

 

[Steve O'Shea]

We'll not be waiting long .....

 

[WhiteKiboko]

Finally.... Discovery has dropped beaucoup bucks in reparations for the crap theyve been putting out in the last 10 (but mostly 5) years....

or did NG buy themselves an O'shea?

either way i say let the cash flow....

 

[ArchieFan]

Anyone got more photos of that? All I've seen is low res turned into 2 inch video frames. I heard they photographed it for four hours one photo every 30 seconds. Even a slug would look fast if you tied that into a video stream and showed them even 1/4 second intervals. Let alone that thing was trying to free itself from the hooks of the jig. Are they holding back, or does someone have more pictures of it?

 

[ArchieFan]

Not to say I think Archie could be "slow as a snail" though. Its intuitive that it would be fast anyways. Most squid are. As uniformed as my opinion might be

 

[ArchieFan]

oops too quick on the clicker :0 didnt mean to post again.

 

[chrono_war01]

(Press the delte button)

And from what I've gathered from Dr. SOS's holy bible of Archi, it's not a fast swimmer.

 

[Fujisawas Sake]

(Press the delte button)

And from what I've gathered from Dr. SOS's holy bible of Archi, it's not a fast swimmer.

Well, its a helluva lot faster than any of us....