Reply #88: Re: "Riskus camera came out of car much too late"

[crispy]

> See how from frame one to frame two the smoke is pulled from the right to the left of the image of the parking-pass tower in the
> foreground -- and some of tfaintness is due to the fact that there is much less contrast in the second picture, presumably due to the
> camera's reaction to the sudden brightness of the flash.

I see what you are saying about the contrast, but I don't think the longer line of smoke in the second photo is caused by the explosion sucking the smoke toward itself. For that explanation to be necessary the missile would have had to abruptly stop pouring out white smoke. But the trail of smoke is longer in the second because that's the path the missile took, pouring smoke out the whole time until it made contact with the facade. Even disregarding color and contrast, you can tell the trail of smoke in the second photo has already begun to dissipate because it doesn't have the same fluffy texture the one in the first photo has.