RE: coil photography

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Original poster: "alfred erpel" <alfred@xxxxxxxxx>



Scott,

        Do you have an ISO adjustment on your camera?  This addresses the
virtual "speed" at which pixels are captured.  It also affects the
graininess of your captured image.  You might find a sweet spot that allows
you to take decent pictures.    This is something that would definitely vary
from camera model to model.  Experiment if you have the ISO adjustment.  Try
this in combinations with the standard other adjustments your camera has.
And then don't forget to set ISO (and other stuff) back to neutral when you
are done.

Regards,

Al Erpel
Earth, USA, PA, 18901



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> Original poster: "Scott Bogard" <teslas-intern@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Greetings all,
>      I am having trouble getting good pictures of my Tesla
> coil in operation.  It seems the cameras I have available, do
> not have a very adjustable exposure time (and I don't have
> any clue how to take a double exposure, without using
> conventional film, which is useless to me as I don't have a
> scanner, so I cannot put my pictures on the computer).  I can
> get "decent" videos, but still shots captured from them
> generally only show the arcs, and not the coil (which gives
> no perspective of actual size), plus the DPI is too low for
> my taste anyway.  Any suggestions would be appreciated (even
> referrals to the archives would be great, if you could give
> me a general place to look, they are vast, and I am pressed
> for time!)  Thanks a heap.
> Scott Bogard.