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Subject: [OM] Re: Dang this must be simple, I can't figure it out . . .
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:07:23 +1000
Bill,

I still don't get it.

What is the purpose of the camera with the back off set to "B" ?

...Wayne



> NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
>  
> In a message dated 10/24/2005 9:25:35 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> danmitchell@xxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> Could  someone explain this again? I've tried the painting-with-light 
> thing by  opening the shutter of a camera and waving a flashlight around 
> 
> to  illuminate the scene -- that worked fine, but there was still the 
> back on  a camera and film in it.
> 
> What's the advantage of having no back  on the camera? The only way I 
> can see this making sense is if there's a  second camera around to take 
> the shot, and the first (backless) one is  somehow being used as a way 
> of 
> redirecting the light through the lens, but  I'm not seeing how that 
> would be a good thing.
> 
> I guess this  would let you see 'from the outside' which bits of light 
> would go into the  (backless) camera or something? But having just tried 
> 
> it, I can't work out  how to get the geometry set up so that the 
> taking-the-photo camera can see  both the light-through-it camera and 
> the 
> scene that's being illuminated by  the light-through-it camera.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Well the project is done and what follows is how it was accomplished.
>  
> 1) Took the back off the camera.
>  
> 2) Put mylar material on the front of two flashlight (one little 
> mag-lite  
> and one that takes three of the c cells).  
>  
> 3) set shutter for B, aperture at 1.4 and use a cable release to lock 
> the  
> shutter open.
>  
> 4) place black paper snout on front of both lights and shine small light 
>  
> thru the lens from the back side.
>  
> 5) Use large light to "paint" the front area I wanted illuminated,
>  
> Results were pretty good, although I would have preferred not using the  
> 
> cable release.
>  
> Bill Barber
> 
> 
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