Re: Digital Camera recommendations for coil photos

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Original poster: "Brett Miller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <brmtesla-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Dave,

I use a SONY digital8 handycam vidio camera for my
coil shots.  It has a still photo capture feature
which also grabs 5 seconds of audio (rather useless
feature).  The CCD on this camera is extremely
infrared sensitive (it also has a "nightshot" function
which records in 0 lux) so it makes the streamers look
even fatter and brighter than they really are.  This
makes for some impressive photos, but I kind of wish I
had something else that could photograph the arcs as
they really are.  You can see the SONY digital8 video
grabs on my website:

http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/brett

-Brett


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Dave Hartwick by way of Terry
> Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <ddhartwick-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> 
> (Terry--I'm hoping this is a legitimate are of
> inquiry)
> 
> Looking to buy a digital camera and one of most
> important criteria is the
> ability to take good shots of my coils in action.
> 
> What are you using? Is the RF field cause problems?
> Good place to buy? I'm
> looking for close up capability so that I can take
> shots of my system
> components and share them with the group.
> 
> Some of these dig cams have video clip capability. I
> wonder how this works
> for Coil vid clips?
> 
> Dave
>