J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread IV (Closed to posting)
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Agreed, but if You look who Goneless is, You will know that he's one of the better "informed" or "reliable" photographer. That does not excudes a manupulated image by someone else, but maybe ....
AssassinsMace
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Is this the guy that the paints the nose cone green? I want to puke when I see those pics.
Surely not, just take a look at Airliners.net (including Y-20 and J-20 prototype, ...) ... and You will know what I mean !
Deino
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Okay, thank God... seeing the negative contrast of those images reminded me of the ones I've seen of the J-20 painted white with the green nose cone in the same style of some the PLAAF's older aircraft.
the first image is a photo-negative of the second one. the fact that "goneless" has posted both these photos means that he probably recieved the first one, inversed the colour, and got the second picture with what appears to show the j-20 in light coloured paint (primer?)
however it looks like the second photo (the supposed original) has, like you say, been heavily manipulated; the contrast has been turned up so far that the highlights are completely blown out (eg. rear ventral stabilizer, top half of fuselage under the cockpit).
looks like a very smart trick by the person who inverted the original photo to me: post a manipulated photo-negative, make the fanboys invert the colours so they feel like accomplished detectives when they get the "original." if this person only posted the second photo, people would instantly call b.s. because the photo manipulation is obvious. when people have to do work for the original image, it suddenly seems more credible. i originally opened the first photo and inverted it myself with irfanview, without having looked at the second photo. for a moment i was fooled, before realizing how messed up the photo looked.
I just realized there is no 200X numbering on the nose, which should still be there if the manipulation was merely to make the photos negatives of the original.
So, could this be a flight of an unpainted J-20?
But that doesn't make sense either, because we had pictures of the cropped tail of a j-20 with the PLAAF star stamped on a while back. Maybe this picture was taken long before and only released now?
Or maybe the photographer just decided to doctor out the nose number....
But that's also a little confusing, because the picture suggests the radome is a very different colour from the rest of the fuselage...
Err I think its not even worth trying to figure this one out.
So, could this be a flight of an unpainted J-20?
But that doesn't make sense either, because we had pictures of the cropped tail of a j-20 with the PLAAF star stamped on a while back. Maybe this picture was taken long before and only released now?
Or maybe the photographer just decided to doctor out the nose number....
But that's also a little confusing, because the picture suggests the radome is a very different colour from the rest of the fuselage...
Err I think its not even worth trying to figure this one out.
They're not going to change our girl at this stage, she's going to be back in the lime-light soon, somebodys gonna have to fly those long range intercepts, she's likely gonna have a future role after all. brat
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