Re: Safe distance for photographing operating tesla coils with digital cameras?

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

Hi Garry,

    IMO, your critic is a candidate for "Pompous Putz of the Year 
Award". I have seen far worse pictures of TCs on line and in books, 
including some of Tesla's own staged double exposures from his CSN.

Matt D.


In a message dated 8/2/05 3:34:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Original poster: "Garry Freemyer" <garryfre@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Recently, I posted a url to my website that has some pictures of my tesla
coil in the photography Usenet group and the subject came up about the main
picture here ....

http://home.pacbell.net/garryfre/

and what is the minimum "safe" distance one should be from a tesla coil when
taking a picture, given the output power or voltage of the coil before it
starts messing with the camera.

Someone replied that by publishing this picture, I was risking the ire of
the entire tesla coiling community. They said "You are publishing a false
representation of what you actually saw when taking the pictures. What would
happen to your credibility with them?"

I asked him to elaborate on exactly what mis-representation he was talking
about but he didn't reply. All I can guess is that he was taking exception
to the publishing of the picture with artifacts that might have been due to
EMF or maybe dust floating in the air, but he was quite serious and sounded
angry. I am amazed how many crackpots are in that forum. Still it was only a
guess that he was having a cow over some elite standard he had set called
"Photo-Purity" and that artifacts constitute lies and that everyone should
hold to this standard. Does anyone have any other clue what this hoser was
talking about?