That's not really surprising if you understand how camo works. It's not really designed to hide you, it's designed to break up your pattern while you are moving so it's harder to determine your shape. You see a moving form, but not a distinct outline. It's similar to how the stripes on a zebra work with tall grass when they are running as a herd. The stripes and grass combine to make it very difficult for lions to tell where one zebra ends and another one starts.
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > John Sessoms wrote: > >>From: Miserere >>> On 30 April 2010 23:03, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: >>>> > Sorry, I have worked for the Army for 39+ years and have >>>> > developed an aversion to camo. What triggered it was the >>>> > number of complaints about pedestrians being hit by cars on >>>> > base. Helloooo - they are all wearing camo! And then they >>>> > wander across the street expecting people to see them? >>> >>> That's some damn good camo! I'm sure some smart salesman at the >>> clothes supplier can work that into an ad campaign: "Camouflage so >>> good, not even your own people will see you! [There are currently 3 >>> people wearing our camouflage in this ad.]" >> >>I dunno, but it seems to me if you're on an Army base you ought to >>expect people crossing streets to be wearing camo. > > You expect it on the battlefield, too. That doesn't make it stand out > any better! > > Seriously, the colors of "camo" have been developed over years to be > as difficult as possible for human to pick up in a wide variety of > conditions. Works pretty well: Statistics of motorcycle accidents, for > example, show riders wearing camo/khaki clothing to be over > represented in statistics. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
