Would like some comments please.
I need to know..... What caused the blurred lines to be broken lines and not long continuous streaks?
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On the reasoning behind the broken streaks I see two possibilities...
The lights were pulsating. Think of an airplane crossing the frame with the navigation lights turning off and then on. The effect on the exposure would be a series of dashes. I'm thinking this is not very likely that you could get an entire city pulsing at the same wavelength unless... these were all florescent lights which are sometimes used in exterior lighting and they are flickering off and on at 60 cycles per second.
The other possibility is that the camera is sampling the light at the rate of whatever the CPU is running at. Since this frequency would normally be much higher I doubt you could move the camera fast enough to get the visible flicker... Also this is just speculating on how a sensor works.
I was going to suggest an experiment where you photograph a point of light that is florescent and another that is incandescent - low and behold this photo has both. If you look closely there are several of the streaks that are not broken - hence not pulsating. I'm gonna bet the first theory is the correct one.
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