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Re: Safe distance for photographing operating tesla coils with digital cameras?
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- Subject: Re: Safe distance for photographing operating tesla coils with digital cameras?
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- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:29:25 -0600
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Original poster: Steve Conner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Digital and Video cameras less than a few years old
> seem very immune
> to noise from Tesla coils.
I'll second that. I have shot hundreds of pictures at
all distances with three different cameras- an Olympus
C3000Z, a Canon PowerShot S45, and lately a Pentax
ist-Ds, and I've never had any trouble. Except that
the infrared remote control on the Olympus would never
work while the coil was firing. I think radiated EMI
got through the window and jammed the sensor.
One of my favourites is the one I use as a banner on
my site:
http://www.scopeboy.com/tesla/tctitle.jpg
I made the logo out of bent copper wire and excited it
with a mini coil on low power. The camera was maybe 8"
away and the corona was maybe 0.75".
Steve Conner
http://www.scopeboy.com/tesla/