Hold it, hold it… so vampires’ reflections don’t appear in mirrors, but most phone cameras don’t use mirrors, just like ‘mirrorless’ (non-DSLR) cameras, the light goes directly through the lens and onto the sensor. So they should be visible on any newer cameras without the traditional mirror redirecting light from a viewfinder to film or digital sensor.
/shittyscientist
It’s about the soul. Vampires don’t cast reflections because they are soulless. Cameras have been criticized for stealing peoples souls. Ergo, a camera would suffer the same fate as the mirror: no soul to capture or reflect.
But I mean it’s just made up lore. That’s admittedly stretched thin.
In Daybreakers the vampire society uses cameras and monitors since they don’t show up in mirrors.
I’m pretty sure those sensors use silver, which won’t capture the vampire’s image.
Not an expert, but CMOS sensors (which are the ones used in cameras? I think?) do not use silver, do they? It’s practically all silicon. (CMOS = Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, where the semiconductor is Si, the metal is Al or more recently Poly-Si and the Oxide is SiO2 obtained by oxidizing the Si)
Unless Si also prevents vampire images from being seen? Does vampire lore explicitly say that all materials were tested and only Silver has anti-vampire properties?
I could be wrong on any of the info I just told you, even a cursory Google search can fail me.
Don’t the sensor connectors contain silver in the micro wires though?
Does vampire lore explicitly say that all materials were tested and only Silver has anti-vampire properties?
I don’t think so. I think it’s just old world mythology that silver is pure, and therefore the purity won’t reflect the evil of the vampire. But every element is pure, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I’ve always used Al and Au in mine but I’m in a research institute and so I can’t speak for what people use in real cameras, but it does appear that Ag is somewhat used in wire bonding, so you can be right!
But every element is pure, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Was this purity in the sense of “absence of impurities” or “absence of evil”? Because if it’s the latter I’m pretty sure I’ve met a few Si wafers with evil agendas.
Classically, mirrors used silver metal, and black and white photographs used silver halide. So strictly speaking, a digital or even color film camera would work.
Wait, the “vampires don’t have reflections” doesn’t include their clothes? Which means any fully-reflectionless vampire is nude?
Don’t go to the house of mirrors exhibit in Transylvania.
Now that’s funny
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