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Re: Wanted - Manual Camera

Jim, Justin:

My best pics were with a Minolta X-370.

I set-up a flashlight in a coffee can to "front-light'" the coil.  I also 
rigged the camera to be remotely operated with a switch located by the coil 
controls by soldering wires directly to the shutter remote terminals.  Then 
setting the camera on "B", I held the shutter open for 3 seconds and then 
fired up the coil to catch the sparks.  This results in a good image of the 
coil and as many sparks as you want to capture.

Good luck,

Scott



In a message dated 5/7/99 3:56:05 AM Central Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

<< Original Poster: "JimmyD" <jim_del-at-email.msn-dot-com> 
 
 A used Nikon FM or FM2 would be great. I use it as a back up to my Nikon F5.
 Even for everyday use you never know when the batteries might go.
 
 Another alternative is to use an older camera like a twin lens reflex or a
 4x5 view camera.  With the larger film you can get some great quality
 pictures.
 
 In general the pictures I see of Tesla Coils are greatly underexposed for
 the coil itself.  This is obviously to get the most detail in the sparks, so
 its not just one big white blotch.  The best technique is a double exposure.
 Take a frame with a flash set correctly with the coil not running.  Then
 take the next frame in total darkness with the coil running and the exposure
 set for the best spark definition (this will require some test exposures,
 just be sure to write it down.)
 
 << Good Hunting for that camera >>
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 1:26 AM
 Subject: Wanted - Manual Camera
 
 
 >Original Poster: "Justin Hennigan" <justinh-at-interlaced-dot-net>
 >
 >Question for the list members:
 >
 >What would be a good fully manual camera for taking tesla coil pictures?  I
 >took some pictures a couple of years ago, and fried an Olympus IS-3DLX from
 >30 feet.  I now have a Nikon N70 and I'd like to keep it.
 >
 >Sparcz
 >ICQ UIN 2417959
 >Justin Hennigan
 >
 >
 
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