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Re: coil photography



Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

One can take quite reasonable pictures with point and shoot cameras. In fact my best (conventional) tesla photo on my index page is taken this way. Here are a few tips from my site.
http://tesladownunder.com/Misc.htm#Photos
I take about 5000 photos per year and only about 1 in 10 to 1 in 100 gets to be seen.
You need some background light, and a tripod or some support.
Of course if you have an SLR with manual controls, you have the possibility of some great effects.
Peter


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Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:29 AM
Subject: coil photography


Original poster: "Scott Bogard" <teslas-intern@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Greetings all,
I am having trouble getting good pictures of my Tesla coil in operation. It seems the cameras I have available, do not have a very adjustable exposure time (and I don't have any clue how to take a double exposure, without using conventional film, which is useless to me as I don't have a scanner, so I cannot put my pictures on the computer). I can get "decent" videos, but still shots captured from them generally only show the arcs, and not the coil (which gives no perspective of actual size), plus the DPI is too low for my taste anyway. Any suggestions would be appreciated (even referrals to the archives would be great, if you could give me a general place to look, they are vast, and I am pressed for time!) Thanks a heap.
Scott Bogard.

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