Re: Green Monster Tesla coil on new webpage & getting spark pics

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Original poster: Esondrmn@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 8/23/05 9:47:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
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

David,

I always used my Cannon A-1 mounted on a tripod.  I did not have a 
cable release but the camera does have selectable slow shutter speeds 
with a start delay which works great.  I used 35mm 100 speed film.  I 
forget the aperture setting.  But heck, film is cheap, just try a few 
different settings and I am sure you will get some good pictures.

That is a great looking coil.  Lots of nice attention to detail there.

Ed Sonderman