A "What is it?" thread

[tom_mann1]

<p>We haven't had one of these in a while. Try to identify the objects in the images posted by others and / or add one of your own.</p>

<p>I'll start with the attached image. It's a JPG taken straight from the camera with the only changes being cropping and down-rez'ing to 700 px for display in this forum.</p>

<p>Tom M</p><div></div>

[MichaelChang]

<p>Tom, I'm guessing a 3-1/2" full range speaker. What I'm not sure of is whether it's lens DoF or software blurring.</p>

<p>Let me see if I have anything to post. </p>

[mbkissel]

<p>Looks like the inside of a thermos bottle or coffee mug.</p>

[MichaelChang]

<p>Mark, I was certain it was a speaker because of the shinny outer ring; what looks like the foam surround, until your post. I think you might be right. :-) </p>

<p>Interesting how we can see things so differently. </p>

[jsc1]

<p>Re-formatted, cropped and down-sized for display...</p><div></div>

[mbkissel]

<p>How about this one?</p><div></div>

[kts]

<p>Mark, if it was green or red i'd say a section of some window pane LSD circa 1973.....yummy!</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>Mark, you nailed it on the 1st try by ID'ing mine as the inside of a thermos bottle. Michael, I did nothing to the image, xcept for cropping to a more or less square format and down-rez'ing it for in-line display in this forum. Other than that, it was straight out of a Canon G12 using room light in our kitchen.</p>

<p>Tom M</p>

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[ed_v.]

<p>Mark, my guess is a waffle iron. It's tough to say if those features are pyramids or depressions, though, but I'm sticking with it.</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>Mark, is it a meat tenderizer (such as this one)?</p>

<p>Tom M</p>

<p>PS - I just saw Ed V's guess and his sounds even better than mine.</p>

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[ed_v.]

<p>Well, it's breakfast time where I am so I guess that's where my mind is.</p>

<p>Here's one from me.</p><div></div>

[sarah_fox]

<p>Stapler!</p>

[ed_v.]

<p>Alright! Sarah wins the stapler!</p>

[dzaebst]

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<p>Alright! Sarah wins the stapler!</p>

 

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<p>Is it a red Swingline? You don't want to give up your red Swingline, do you? </p>

[mbkissel]

<p>Ed, I thought it looked like a waffle iron, too. But Tom got it right; it is the face of a metal meat tenderizer.</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>Oops, I'm late to the party. Let's see, I'm sure I've got something a bit unlikely around here somewhere ...</p><div></div>

[mbkissel]

<p>Wow, don't have any guesses for Josiah's or yours, Matt. I'm stumped on both. How about a wee hint from you both?</p>

[bobbollinger]

<p>Josiah, your photo is both baffling and fascinating. </p>

<p> My best guess is that the orange container is sitting on a table, fresh out of the freezer, and it contains some frozen substance that ruptured the lid, and that swirly stuff is condensation coming off it. </p>

[bobbollinger]

<p>After staring at it for several minutes and racking my brain, I think Matt may have a reflection in a piece of chrome on the fender of a car. But if I try to visualize what it is much longer, I will need an Excedrin. </p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>Josiah posted his inscrutible image first, so I won't drop any clues until <em>he</em> does! As for what the heck he has depicted, there - I'm pretty stumped, too. My first reaction was to say it looked like a piece of butter melting in hot water. Though that seems increasingly unlikely given the bit of red involved. Curious!</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>Josiah's and Matt's images also have me stumped. </p>

<p>I have a feeling Josiah's is something like mixing of paints in a bucket with a piece of semi-hardened film floating on the surface, but I have little confidence in my guess.</p>

<p>For Matt's, I keep thinking that it's probably a honeycomb grid lighting modifier, but the angle looks wrong. I really don't know, but they are both great teaser shots! </p>

<p>Tom M</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>Ding! Tom wins the prize, and now I don't have to think up a hint. The prize, by the way, is ... the personal gratification that comes with being a smarty-pants and figuring it out. That's all I've got! Here's the larger shot. It's an out-take from a product shooting set-up. We're seeing through the umbrella shaft hole in a monolight's metal reflector. We are indeed seeing a 20-degree honeycomb from <em>within</em> the reflector - which is indeed a wrong-looking angle!</p><div></div>

[tom_mann1]

<p>So THAT's why the angle looks "wrong". I hadn't thought of the possibility of looking through the hole. Thanks for posting the overall view of the scene. No matter what the answer was, I was going to ask if you had such a shot.</p>

<p>Again, a great shot, Matt.</p>

<p>Tom M</p>

[jsc1]

<p>Two hints: 1) think cold, colder than 'ice;' 2) and think safe, color 'food additives.</p>

[jsc1]

<p>Two hints: 1) think cold, colder than 'ice;' 2) and think safe, color 'food additives.</p>