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Friends, 3200 is the (ISO/ASA) speed of the film, a property unrelated to the lens he uses.
Regular film speeds for everyday use range between 100 ISO (sunny days at the beach) and 400 ISO (people wearing grey sweaters on a cloudy Sunday afternoon in industrial Liverpool).
Basically, Biff, as often, has completely misunderstood a concept and gotten it the opposite way it is. In this case, it is the gauge used to describe the light sensitivity of photographic film, and he will hence get a totally black (overexposed) negative when he develops it.
In my darkroom days, I used to joke myself in the opposite direction when I experimented with 25 ISO negative film, that even cardboard would be more light-sensitive.
I even made up a claim for a fictious advertisement praising a 25 ISO speed film as “the negative for catching that next supernova just right”.
Even if Biff uses a tiny aperture so as to not horribly overexpose the film, a 3200 ISO would produce such a grainy image that the man in the sun could not be distinguished.
Sigh.. another attempt to finally prove the existence of The Man in the Sun to the skeptical scientific community, foiled.
OMG. I started at #200 and went backwards to this. Between the comics (funny) and the comments (funnier) I’m laughing so hard I’m snorting. I have almost peed my pants at least twice.
November 24th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
I don’t think it works that way…
December 1st, 2006 at 1:50 am
i didnt know there was a man in the sun..
December 5th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
You just have to look really hard.
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
sounds like fun i’ll try it
January 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
He’s about to be in a world of pain….
January 13th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
3200 magnification telescope + sun=Retina? What’s a retina?
January 13th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Er, thought it was a telescope for some reason. Really, really big lens then. XD
January 19th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Friends, 3200 is the (ISO/ASA) speed of the film, a property unrelated to the lens he uses.
Regular film speeds for everyday use range between 100 ISO (sunny days at the beach) and 400 ISO (people wearing grey sweaters on a cloudy Sunday afternoon in industrial Liverpool).
Basically, Biff, as often, has completely misunderstood a concept and gotten it the opposite way it is. In this case, it is the gauge used to describe the light sensitivity of photographic film, and he will hence get a totally black (overexposed) negative when he develops it.
In my darkroom days, I used to joke myself in the opposite direction when I experimented with 25 ISO negative film, that even cardboard would be more light-sensitive.
I even made up a claim for a fictious advertisement praising a 25 ISO speed film as “the negative for catching that next supernova just right”.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Retina?!? He may just fry a hole straight thru his entire head!
February 4th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Even if Biff uses a tiny aperture so as to not horribly overexpose the film, a 3200 ISO would produce such a grainy image that the man in the sun could not be distinguished.
Sigh.. another attempt to finally prove the existence of The Man in the Sun to the skeptical scientific community, foiled.
April 9th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Yay for blindness!
April 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Is it bad that I find a tad more pleasure in reading all of your astute comments than in most of the panels?
April 14th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Nope. I’m the same way.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
OMG. I started at #200 and went backwards to this. Between the comics (funny) and the comments (funnier) I’m laughing so hard I’m snorting. I have almost peed my pants at least twice.
April 22nd, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Wow…..uhm….WAY more info than I needed, there. Ew.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:20 am
biff looks a little odd in this one, its just something about him is different
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:30 am
Could it be his eyebrows going backwards?
May 30th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
It’s going to explode his head like an ant under a magnifying glass.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:33 am
The man in the sun is the guy who makes all the flaming hammers
June 14th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
whats a flaming hammer? Hey stephennie, another backwards reader like me. Finally.
August 8th, 2007 at 4:42 am
A world of pain? The sun is far, far bigger than worlds. He’s in for pain on interstellar scale. And that makes me smile.
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Why can’t we see the light burning through the BACK of his head?
March 10th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
because…thats in another comic =P