Khaydarian
Paranormal Novice
With that said, I have a few rambling thoughts about the show. First, I agree totally that many of today's camera phones are not equipped to take clear photographs of small objects at a distance. I have made the point to several friends to show them how hard it is to simply capture a photo of a news helicopter on my iphone. You can clearly see the helicopter with your naked eyes, but the photo itself is typically nothing but a blur. It can be very frustrating, so I totally get that camera phones are not the best system to take such clear photos. However, aside from cell phones, there has been an explosion of inexpensive, big sensor DLSRs sold all around the world. Where as 20-30 years ago, only a professional photographer would have nice equipment, with the advances in technology, now most households have a decent, large sensor camera at their disposal. Therefore, I still think it's odd we haven't seen better UFO photos, even if you discount the cell phones. Look at total worldwide DSLR sales in the past 10-15 years, then look at the sheer amount of photographs that are currently online. Photobucket, Flickr, Facebook, etc probably have BILLIONS of photographs ranging from generic vacation snap shots to beautiful long exposure shots of national parks and so forth. Yet, we still don't have that home run photo or video of a clear "flying saucer" (Sorry Ray Stanford, you don't count since you won't release anything to anyone qualified to make a judgement).
My only argument would be that because people have come to rely on cell phones to such a great extent, DSLRs and really any other kind of recording device are often used strictly for special events, and not in day to day activity ( at least for the majority of us). That being said, I think you're right; the fact that we have so little photographic evidence from so many reported sightings is incredibly disheartening. From a personal stand point, its one of my biggest struggles with the topic. I think that why, inevitably, anyone who delves in deep enough comes to the conclusion there has to be more complex than simple "nuts and bolts" as they say.