Differentiating between videos and photographs

15th Specious Argument: Differentiating between videos and photographs

Some of them even go so far as to say: “video imaging”.

The response:
The matter is simple, inshā‘ Allāh. All we need to do is clarify what videos are.

So what are they?

If you pause a video, what do you see? An image.
Play it again, then pause it. What do you see? An image.
And so on.

If you pause a video and then start pressing the forward and rewind buttons, you will see how it appears to you as separate, independent images. And if you press quickly, you will notice how it appears as though it is moving, even though the video itself is not playing.

The conclusion?

A video is a collection of images—image after image after image.
Twenty-four images per second… at the very least, in our present time.

It is just like hand-drawn animated flipbooks that contain a large sequence of successive drawings; when the pages are flipped rapidly, they appear to move.

This technique is based on the principle of optical illusion, whereby the drawings change gradually so as to give the impression of continuous motion.

The speed of succession of the images is what creates the illusion of movement.

Therefore, when a camera records a video directly, it is doing nothing more than capturing a vast number of images and displaying them in sequence.

Have you noticed how some devices can reverse the direction of the sequence, as though time itself were moving backward?

Accordingly, you may define videos as: a rapid display of a series of images.

You may also say that videos are based on illusion: the thing being displayed as though it were moving is not, in reality, moving. Rather, it is static, but you are seeing numerous images that show it in different positions during its movement at the time of recording.

p. 226–227

Example: https://t.me/sourgeOfPhotography/118

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