> > > On 01/17/2011 09:55 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com <mailto:sa...@pobox.com>> > > wrote: > > One of the major photography rags of the era (Pop Photo or Modern > Photography, I forget which) ran an article on him, partly due > to his claim to be able to "think" things onto film, which claim > they didn't care for. Apparently the folks at SRI weren't as > careful as the photography magazine's reporter, who found Randi > unconvincing. > When the reporter was out of the room, Geller lifted the lens cap an inch or so off the reporter's camera and snapped a picture, presumably thinking it would result in a blur and he could then claim to have been thinking at it or something.
He didn't realize that the camera was fitted with a 'fisheye' lens, and the resulting picture was a clear shot of Geller's fingers holding the lens cap and Geller peering at the lens.
