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[AWwrgwy]

I say photochopped.

Tracers look like laser beams from Star Wars.  I'd almost buy it without the second fighter.


wrongway

[WilldCrd]

I'd say fake.
1. The plane in the background has the "laserbeam" tracers
2. The plane also has some weird looking effect from behind like a wake someone tried to put into the photo for "coolness"
3. the plane diving away if you lok closely you can see a black line from the film like what many had back in the day, the wing of the plane seems to be on TOP of the line, hence photoshoped in.

It would appear this photo is a still taken from a film, the planes were photoshoped in.
I've seen alot of old B/W WWII photos digitized and tho I'm no expert in any sense of the word it has the feel of fake and with the inconsistencies with the LW planes it doesnt seem authentic.
The second fighter really is the deal breaker for me. It's not even the tracers really its that odd shading behind the fighter, like someone was trying to give it the appearence of "swooping" in for the kill.

Sorry, it would have been a really awesome find  if it was real. Still it looks cool tho

[Die Hard]

At that resolution and with jpeg artifacts it is impossible to tell if it is real or not. B/W photos have a tendency to look fake if they are overexposed and later processed digitally.

Xasthur, why not contact the people running that site and ask about the picture?


Things that support the photo's authenticity is that bomber crews would indeed take pictures of enemy aircraft when they were under attack, and sometimes they got some astonishing shots.

[Fulmar]

[Vulcan]

Fake, 2nd aircraft and lasers are shop'd in as are the smoke trails.

[WWhiskey]

original pic is from a documentery "the history of war"
 the comercials run on history channel fron time to time,
 it is taken from a film clip
fake photo shoped

[bcadoo]

Its appears to be a frame from a film. Notice the vertical black lines.  One on the wing of the 190 and 1 below the inboard cowling.)  Those would be scratches in the film.  The only thing 'suspicious' to me is that the propeller of the 190 is clearly visible and the b24 and other fighter are just blurs, but that could be a synchronization between the RPM of the propeller and the shutter speed of the camera.

This is an enargement of the image that i did in photoshop.

[Panzzer]

Milo, yes, the LW had tracer rounds. And yes that is a 190, just look at the wings.

[Motherland]

I don't think that's supposed to be a 190. The Dora has an annual radiator and a much smaller spinner than that. Also the leading edge of the wing looks too perpendicular to the fuselage/ the trailing edge swept too far forward to be a 190 wing, though it may because of the dihedral and the angle. But the gear are mounted far out on the wings, so it couldn't be a 109 either. I think it's just a poorly photochopped image...

[bcadoo]

This is as close as I could get with the AH Skin Viewer.  This is the Dora

[Motherland]

Thanks for that pic, didn't realize that the gear was too far back as well.

[Widewing]

It's a composite image. Note that the rather slow turning (at cruise RPM) B-24 props are a complete blur. Yet, the fighter's prop is quite distinct. That means two photos at two different shutter speeds.

Look that this photo... This is also a composite image (but the prop blur is similar. I did this in Photoshop with the GML plug-in in about 15 minutes.



My regards,

Widewing