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  Yeah, that’s pretty common among people who believe in ghosts
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  Optics engineer: Hmm, their eyes picked up the flash. Should we redesign to try to fix that?
  Product designer: Nah, people will want a camera with the flash built in. >
  
  Yeah I guess the people making it would notice. But the consumers wouldn’t all know what it is.
  Hell, there’s still people who believe in ghosts because of “light orbs” in pictures. And more recently video compression has led people to believe in lizard person conspiracies >
  
  Well the lizard thing is more because the elite class is made of almost all lizards >
  
  Looking at you, Obama. >
  
  I would like to assume it was a chemist/engineer developing color flash photography who knew better. >
  
  I mean, maybe, but I’d like to assume OP’s thought! That would have been hilarious! >
  
  Not quite the same but there were churches that believed cameras would steal your soul.
  Source >
  
  Was hoping this was a link to Crocodile Dundee. :) >
  
  Camera flashes go way back to the glass-plate era, so it would have been grey-eyes at first, and people would have realised that it was a reflection of the flash. >
  
  Is this only true in children? >
  
  Article says “almost exclusively  in children” >
  
  i remember finding a weird website/blog of people who thought little “orbs” of lights in photos were spirits