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Subject: [OM] Re: Lighting an airship? was Re: Re: Flash for E500
From: Tim Hughes <timhughes@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:02:16 -0800 (PST)
The father of strobe flash photography, Harold Edgerton, built aerial 
surveilance flashes for
photographing things on the ground from a few thousand feet.
 
Dual focussed tubes one under each wing with 50000 J each. Aparently would 
easily ignite paper
from 20feet away.  

Even a Metz CT60 will melt a hole in a thin black plastic bag close up.

Tim Hughes

--- Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> >>
> >> What were you lighting, Wayne, and what with?  And 2000m when most
> >> people use feet as the units of altitude?  Was it a Russian blimp?
> >>
> >> I know, so many questions ... :-)
> >>
> >> Chris
> >> On 16 Nov 2007, at 07:58, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Shots in a hangar are trivial - try lighting one at night sitting
> >>> at 2000m
> >>> in the air.
> >>>
> >
> > Nothing Chris, just trying a bit of one-up-man-ship (?) on Jan's  
> > comment !
> >

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