{"id":25949,"date":"2025-11-08T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=25949"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:40:44","slug":"forensic-image-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/11\/forensic-image-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensic image analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given my interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/images\/\">photography<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.12237\">forensic image analysis<\/a>, only now I had the chance to the read the<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CC_TerrorOfWarReportUpdate_050525_RL3_hh.pdf\"> full AP documentation<\/a> of the &#8220;Napalm Girl&#8221;. It is a cruel and exciting story but a perfect example of provenance research.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any effort to reconstruct what happened on the road using available footage is going to be imperfect, with a wide margin for error. It\u2019s important to keep in mind this took place in an analog world, where film stock and camera rolls were a finite resource&#8230; [Ut&#8217;s Peentax] camera was tested by AP on April 18, 2025. The results appear to show very clear similarities to the famous image and are another marker to suggest that the famous image was likely taken with a Pentax. The negative images do not match exactly. The camera itself seems to be in mint condition, so it is unlikely to have been used in combat for any length of time, and given the date of manufacture, could not have been inherited from Ut\u2019s brother. The investigation showed Ut owned Pentax cameras and used Pentax cameras<br \/>\nwhile covering the war. It does not prove he held a Pentax in Trang Bang on June 8, 1972.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/project\/terror-of-war\/#visual-analysis\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 22.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given my interest in photography and forensic image analysis, only now I had the chance to the read the full AP documentation of the &#8220;Napalm Girl&#8221;. It is a cruel and exciting story but a perfect example of provenance research. Any effort to reconstruct what happened on the road using available footage is going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/11\/forensic-image-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forensic image analysis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25949"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25960,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949\/revisions\/25960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}