Flash Photo Helps Spot Rotten Potatoes

Flash Photo Helps Spot Rotten Potatoes FARM HOME Food 33-6-4 Damian Lakatos, Johnstown, Penn., uses a camera as a simple way to find rotten potatoes in dim-lit storage areas. The camera's flash causes potatoes with rotten spots to show up darker than the other potatoes. "The rotten potatoes look fine to the eye in a dim-lit cellar, and they don't show up in photos taken without a flash. But the flash picks them out," says Lakatos. "It lets me remove the rotten potatoes before they can spoil the entire bin. "I discovered this method by accident," he told FARM SHOW. "I wanted to send my sister some photos of the potatoes I was storing in a dim-lit bin so I took a few shots. I forgot to turn on the flash in the first photo so I took another photo, this time using the flash." After downloading the photos from the camera, Lakatos noticed that a few of the potatoes showed up darker in the flash photo. "As it turns out, the darker potatoes were just starting to rot, and I was able to pick them out before they made a mess. In the non-flash photo, all the potatoes look fine." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Damian Lakatos, Johnstown, Penn. (damian@ floodcity.net).

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