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The eye test image mystery

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    whs
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    Feel like this video is too padded to fill a certain length. To summarize Nidek make the autorefractor machine used in eye exam. Their machine feature the balloon over a long road test image....

    Feel like this video is too padded to fill a certain length. To summarize

    • Nidek make the autorefractor machine used in eye exam. Their machine feature the balloon over a long road test image. Nidek states that test images featuring houses are not used on their machines.
    • The image is composited from different images. This fact was confirmed by Nidek to several people. However, whether it is 2 (road + sky/balloon) or 3 (road + sky + baloon) or others is unknown.
    • The road is revealed in a Japanese TV show among other sources, and image matching to be taken at Forrest Gump point in Monument Valley, Utah.
    • The balloon was identified by redditors to be Raven RX-7. A search through balloon database shows a N4036Y built in 1983, located in Colorado with similar livery. It is now out of service.
    • Nidek doesn't disclose the author of the image other than that it is one of their employee. The author theorized that Nidek CEO loves to travel to the USA and sponsored a balloon with their logo, but if it is their CEO who made the images they probably be boasting about that fact.
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    1. cfabbro
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      Yeah, it was unfortunately quite unnecessarily padded out. I was even tempted to include my own TLDW because of that. :/ But thanks for providing one yourself for people who (understandably) might...

      Yeah, it was unfortunately quite unnecessarily padded out. I was even tempted to include my own TLDW because of that. :/ But thanks for providing one yourself for people who (understandably) might not want to watch the whole video.

      6 votes
    2. creesch
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      I honestly enjoyed the story telling, maybe it could have been a bit shorter (20 vs 30 minutes) but overall I think it worked well as just a story to tell. If you just expected to be presented...

      I honestly enjoyed the story telling, maybe it could have been a bit shorter (20 vs 30 minutes) but overall I think it worked well as just a story to tell. If you just expected to be presented with plain facts I'd agree, but this didn't feel like such a video.

      3 votes