Two mirrors, an eyepiece and into my eyeball, it doesn't get any cooler than that.
TRUE STORY- I was coming back on BART with the missus and a friend after seeing the Blue Angles on Sunday in SF from the 40th floor- I had brought my smallest scope, an 11.3 cm f/4.5. A guy on the BART train asked "how far can you see with that thing?", a common question. I told him, "if you have a dark sky in the spring, you can see a quasar 2 billion light years away with this thing". He said "I'll have to google that, I don't know WTF a quasar is!"
The funniest thing about it? I saw him pull out his phone to google it, and the wallpaper on his phone was a shot of his dick.
Also, that great ad campaign Nikon had in the late 80s-90s? Show a bunch of great shots with "Pulitizer Prize, etc etc"… on each one, then the last frame, in silence: Nikon: we take the worlds greatest pictures.
Not that Hasselblad, Bronica, Mamiya , Canon and Leica didn't either…
I remember in an old Astronomy magazine a story about a setup that used freon cooled in an external box to cool down the camera. And weren't people doping up the 'film' they still used?
yep, "forming gas". I believe a hydrogen/nitrogen blend. Then there was always dry ice to cool a camera for a long exposure. I did that a few times. Slows down the ionic step of latent image formation to the speed of the photons coming in. It's all covered in the Gurney-Mott theory of latent image reciprocity failure. I guess my one failed year at RIT in Imaging and Photographic Science stuck a few things in my head (even though the folks running that major sucked, I was unprepared for college, and the chemistry folks were cooler).
Or if you really want to go big:
http://astro-cam.com/
Can keep the beer cold too.
Two mirrors, an eyepiece and into my eyeball, it doesn't get any cooler than that.
TRUE STORY- I was coming back on BART with the missus and a friend after seeing the Blue Angles on Sunday in SF from the 40th floor- I had brought my smallest scope, an 11.3 cm f/4.5. A guy on the BART train asked "how far can you see with that thing?", a common question. I told him, "if you have a dark sky in the spring, you can see a quasar 2 billion light years away with this thing". He said "I'll have to google that, I don't know WTF a quasar is!"
The funniest thing about it? I saw him pull out his phone to google it, and the wallpaper on his phone was a shot of his dick.
<img src="http://motioncontrolsrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tv-300×229.png">
So, you too remember when TVs were manufactured in the US?
I don't remember them being full of candy corn, though.
There wasn't any candy corn left when i was done, I can tell you that!
That picture causes me emotional pain.
I got a Nikon camera; I love to take a photograph
me too, but they did indeed take Kodachrome away.
Also, that great ad campaign Nikon had in the late 80s-90s? Show a bunch of great shots with "Pulitizer Prize, etc etc"… on each one, then the last frame, in silence: Nikon: we take the worlds greatest pictures.
Not that Hasselblad, Bronica, Mamiya , Canon and Leica didn't either…
I remember in an old Astronomy magazine a story about a setup that used freon cooled in an external box to cool down the camera. And weren't people doping up the 'film' they still used?
yep, "forming gas". I believe a hydrogen/nitrogen blend. Then there was always dry ice to cool a camera for a long exposure. I did that a few times. Slows down the ionic step of latent image formation to the speed of the photons coming in. It's all covered in the Gurney-Mott theory of latent image reciprocity failure. I guess my one failed year at RIT in Imaging and Photographic Science stuck a few things in my head (even though the folks running that major sucked, I was unprepared for college, and the chemistry folks were cooler).
man I miss chemical based photography
Not that Dewar
well played, sir
This one?
<img src="http://aandsliquorboutique.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/dewars.jpg" />
It's a little harsh…
Yeah, you gotta get up to the single-malt level to have mild Scotch.
This person was of a different race than Mr. Weiner. Perhaps a protegé?
Also, SF != SFO