A metaphysical question

[shadowscast]

These days I'm working crazy hours, but my husband's unemployed (and keeping house for me, which is pretty sweet). Result: he's watching the Buffy DVDs without me! Which is kind of weird, since I think of Buffy as my thing; he even broke the shrink wrap on S7! Anyway, it's fun. He's been watching S7, and I've been catching the odd episode in the evenings.

Today he came up with a wonderful question: If you were to videotape a vampire, and then play the tape on a TV, and place the TV opposite a mirror...would the vampire's image show up in the mirror?

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[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

SLR cameras only use the mirror for the viewfinder - the mirror actually flips out of the way as the shutter is pressed. You could take a vampire's picture, no problem - you just couldn't see it in the viewfinder to aim properly.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/camera7.htm