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These are a combination of a self-darkening welder's mask and the dark glasses so favoured by celebrities.
The lenses would normally be clear or very slightly tinted, but would darken in response to a camera flash.
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
http://hitchhikers....ensitive_Sunglasses
Good old Douglas A ... [8th of 7, Feb 06 2011]
More aggressive version
http://www.timesonl.../article6841380.ece
Assuming, of course, that it's more than rumor. [mouseposture, Feb 06 2011]
Baked during the cold war
http://www.usafals....LTZ Goggles/Cal.htm
Nuclear flash goggles [AntiQuark, Feb 07 2011]
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This is an excellent idea. And by "excellent" I mean "doomed
to failure". |
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LCDs will take a good millisecond to respond, which is
roughly the duration of the flash itself. You will therefore be
dazzled immediately before being plunged into darkness. |
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Ah, you've met Peter Mandelson, then ? The Albert
Speer of the Brown administration ... |
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I prefer to say that Peter Mandelson has met me. |
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We prefer to say, "Peter Mandelson ? Who ?" |
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//"Peter Mandelson ? Who ?"// |
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//LCDs will take a good millisecond to respond// There
might be a way around that problem <link> |
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If some-one could just convince all camera and flash manufacturers to put a left-hand circularly-polarising filter on the front of their flashes, then the 'victims' of paparazzi only need to wear right-hand circularly-polarised glasses, and the problem is solved. |
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