Green Monster Tesla coil on new webpage & getting spark pics

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Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi all,

Here is a link to a new webpage that's hosting the
pics with a brief description caption for each pic of
my "Green Monster" 15 kVA Tesla coil project.
Check it out:

<http://dawntreader.net/hvgroup/david/gm.html>http://dawntreader.net/hvgroup/david/gm.html

This website is still in the development phase so bookmark
it and check back periodically for updates. Sorry that
we still haven't gotten around to getting spark pics as
we haven't been able to work that out yet. Incidently,
from what I've been reading from others, it seems that
the old 35mm film cameras with a cable control to
manually control the aperture opening of the camera
give the best spark pic results. I assume 2 to 4 second
shutter speed gives the best multiple streamer affect?
Can you get any decent spark images with a digicam?
My Canon A80 does have a "slow shutter" feature but
I still don't think that it allows the option of manual control
of the aperture opening time, though. So, we're still waiting
to get soemone with an old 35mm camera with a remote
aperture and a tripod to get some PRESENTABLE spark
pics. Any suggestuions along these lines is welcome :^)

David