RE: My Tesla picture looks like a nebula in space. Odd starfield effect!

["Garry Freemyer" <Garry-at-NDFC-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Thank you for the fine complement. Interestingly, conversion to jpg seems to
have removed the stars. The same pic at home has more stars of different
color. I'm going to try to get that up on the site too.

I am using a HP Photosuite 350 camera. It's about a year and a half old, its
digital so I don't have a shutter speed or aperature. I just set the
exposure to max, I don't recall if there were even numbers associated with
it but I've noticed that different cameras seem to use different numbers and
they don't correspond. There was no aperature setting. It doesn't have al ot
of bells and whistles.

I was about 6 to 8 feet away.

It was nearly total darkness too when I took it. There was a full grown
border collie in the garage and the dog decided it couldn't get out of the
garage fast enough when I turned it on. Wish I had a picture of that. 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 5:32 PM
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Subject: Re: My Tesla picture looks like a nebula in space. Odd
starfield effect!


Original poster: "bob golding" <yubba-at-clara-dot-net> 

Hi Garry,
    Amazing photo!! Could you give us more details of how you took the
photo? What sort of camera where you using? how far away where you? what
shutter speed and aperture did you use. I have had some success with spark
photos using a Kodak dc290 set on automatic in subdued daylight. I am also
using your photo as a background on my computer as well.

cheers
bob golding


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Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 7:02 PM
Subject: My Tesla picture looks like a nebula in space. Odd starfield
effect!


> Original poster: "Garry F." <garryfre-at-pacbell-dot-net>
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> I took a pic of the tesla coil operating with the cap from Terry after I
> figured out how to prevent the camera from flashing.
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> It ended up looking like a ring of sparks in a starfield possibly because
the
> individual photocells of the digital camera may have been stimulated by
static
> in the air.
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> At any rate, THIS IS ONE AWESOME PIC!!
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> Take a look ...
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> Here is my web site, the mpg is pretty lame but at least it's mine, but
the
> picture looks very interesting!
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<http://home.pacbell-dot-net/garryfre/index.html>http://home.pacbell-dot-net/garryf
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> http://home.pacbell-dot-net/garryfre/001007-006.jpg
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