Bouncing blue spot at the bottom of a short video - why is it there?

[Brawdy14]

Hi folks

I filmed a short video with an iPhone SE during very blustery weather a few days ago. I put it on YouTube, here:-

Can anyone here tell me what may have caused the small, pale blue, bouncing ball which appears about halfway through?

 

[Gwendolini]

That is a lens flare, light refracted in a dirt spot on the lens, thus it moves in the opposite direction of where the sun is moving.

 

[Brawdy14]

That is a lens flare, light refracted in a dirt spot on the lens, thus it moves in the opposite direction of where the sun is moving.

Thank you for your thoughts on this. I'm not sure what you mean by "the sun is moving" - the sun barely moved in the sky as I panned from west to east.😕

 

[Dave Braine]

Hmm...never seen flare like that.

the sun barely moved in the sky as I panned from west to east

It did in relation to your camcorder.

 

[Brawdy14]

There's an interesting thread about this phenomenon, here:-

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6565527

 

[Gwendolini]

Hmm...never seen flare like that.

Me too, but the shape is reminding me of one. And since the lens elements are so small in an iPhone, that was my only thought, especially since it was moving like one in relation to the sun and lens.

There are even some tutorials out there to recreate that, in order to make your footage more hip, since there is no mFlare 2 for iPhone out yet.

 

[Brawdy14]

Hmm...never seen flare like that.

I've never seen ANYTHING like it before.

It did in relation to your camcorder.

That's the first time I've 'heard' someone refer to an iPhone as a "camcorder"! 😉

 

[Dave Braine]

That's the first time I've 'heard' someone refer to an iPhone as a "camcorder"!

Yeah, my bad. 😀😀😀

 

[Brawdy14]

Yeah, my bad. 😀😀😀

Ha! Now you sound like a usasian! 😉

Truth be told, I've still got one somewhere around! Rather gives away our age, Dave! 🙄

 

[Dave Braine]

I've still got one somewhere around!

Yeah, I've got two. Just upgraded from a miniDV to a AVCHD. 😀

 

[Brawdy14]

Yeah, I've got two. Just upgraded from a miniDV to a AVCHD. 😀

That sounds impressive! 🙄 I'm no photographer or film-maker; I just strolled down to the sea at around high tide and caught the moment!

What did you think about the quality of my video, taken on such a blustery day with an iPhone? It was really hard to hold the camera fairly stable. Someone has suggested to me that there's some kind of stabilisation built in to the iPhone SE but I've no knowledge of that.

 

[Dave Braine]

Your video is fine. When you think of what it's doing, iPhone video is impressive. Somebody won the £25,000 Turner Prize with an iPhone video the other day.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/04/turner-prize-2018-charlotte-prodger-wins-iphone-video/

 

[Brawdy14]

Your video is fine. When you think of what it's doing, iPhone video is impressive. Somebody won the £25,000 Turner Prize with an iPhone video the other day.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/04/turner-prize-2018-charlotte-prodger-wins-iphone-video/

Thanks for your comments. 🙂

I found this, which you might like to watch:-