Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dial indicator

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 23 Jun 2021 at 17:27:10 (UTC)

Reason: High quality lead image of its article. A dial indicator is used for precision manufacturing. The measuring sensitivity of this instrument is 0.01 mm (0.0004 inch). It has been a while since we had a technology FP.
Articles in which this image appears: Indicator (distance amplifying instrument)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others
Creator: Lucasbosch

Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 17:27, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I own four similar indicators (for use in my live steam hobby), and they are all-metal. This one looks to have a shell and shaft of transparent plastic - which it most probably hasn't. I guess it's an issue with the studio lighting and reflections in the metal, thus a bit misleading. Compare with this one [[1]], where the lighting is such that the shaft is clearly seen to be of metal. I've never seen one with transparent parts... ;-) --Janke | Talk 20:14, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It definitely doesn't have a plastic or transparent shell/shaft. There is no such thing :-) The shaft is entirely steel, and polished, it's highly reflective. That's where the bright white comes from. One can call the lighting over-exposed, but definitely not plastic! Another image: [2] for reference. Bammesk (talk) 02:06, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. I oppose because it looks transparent, even though it isn't. Thus, the picture gives an incorrect impression. --Janke | Talk 10:02, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You implied that it could 'probably' be plastic by writing: "plastic - which it most probably hasn't". I had to address that 'probability', I wasn't questioning your vote. Cheers. Bammesk (talk) 03:13, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:46, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]