One of the most frequent questions I am asked is how can the cross hairs that are etched onto the camera lens appear to be behind an object in the photo?
Does this prove that the photos have been staged?
If you were to ask a photographer, they would suggest that the bright reflection of the white object has overpowered the dark fine cross hair because of intensity of the reflected light. Not convinced? Then take a look at the following images.
The image above shows how a bright object can obscure a finer dark line on a lens: Thanks to Ian William Goddards suggestion.
Still not convinced then take a look at the image below taken from Apollo 17, in this case the object is neither in front nor behind the cross hair. How can this be? In my opinion this image shows that bright objects can obscure the cross hairs. If you don't agree then please send me a photo in which a darker object obsures a cross hair.
