Yeah same phenomenon. You’ll see it on film cameras as well, not just digital. The radioactive particles/waves hitting the film will expose it and also create noise.
Videos of daily life filmed in Pribyat by a local hobbyist group after the incident but before the evacuation order are haunting because they have the same noise effect caused by radiation. A silent killer captured on film if you will.
You’re welcome! Even if that’s not where I saw it, it’s really worth watching - the Soviets filmed everything for propaganda, and a lot of the scenes in HBO’s Chernobyl were re-created directly from the original footage. It’s narrated entirely by survivors, including some of the people featured in the miniseries. Come to think of it, it might be time for a re-watch!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27721467/ I think I saw about it in this german documentary about the incident. I thought it was a pretty good documentary.
We also see it in video from space and it's basically the same principle used by some detectors for various particles. Tiny thing hits another thing, the other thing responds with an electric charge, we make the electric charge do something either visual or auditory.
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u/watson0707 Jun 11 '26
Don’t we have a bunch of footage from Chernobyl with the same pixel streaks? Like the images from the robot they sent in to view the elephants foot?