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Regards, Art.
Regards, Art.
Really cool. Someday when I can afford it.....
It is $300, not really a lot if you'd have a serious interest in that technique. Thats less money than most lenses we own cost new. I'm surprised that they aren't trying to charge $3000 for it. Seems like everything in photography these days is sold at outrageous prices.
I'm not complaining about the price. I'm complaining about the pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even the buyers and arrangers of shrubbery are under considerable economic stress in this period of history.
In other words, I think the price is great. I just can't personally afford it.
Chris, welcome to the midwest, I'd say you've hit the nail on the head. Sadly, escaping is particularly difficult as well.
What a coincidence, I found one of these things lying around in the darkroom where I teach last week, it was an older version in a wooden box not plastic. Now I know what it it's for. Not quite sure how you use it to take a picture of your hand without getting a high voltage shock though, anyone tried this technique?Check this gadget out: Dead Link Removed
Regards, Art.
Not quite sure how you use it to take a picture of your hand without getting a high voltage shock though, anyone tried this technique?
ted serios
This device is a lot less sophisticated than the commercial model listed at the start of this thread and it operates at much lower power but, if you have an old grill that you can scrounge an igniter from, a scrap piece of wood, and a soda can that can be cut to form the metal plate, you can make one for free.
Popular Photography descamed this scam artist a long time ago. Serios created images by laying his hands on the camera. Pop Photo gave him a camera with a 15mm lens on it -- he was expecting a 50 -- and got clear pictures of him palming a small slide viewer that he put against the camera lens to create his 'psychic images'.
It seems people still swallow this shite.
In the mid 70's I took a workshop in Kirlian photography. We built a device that consisted a piezoelectric device like the igniter on a gas grill - if I remember correctly, that is exactly what it was. When the plunger is pushed a crystal is struck and creates a high voltage, high frequency, very low amperage electrical charge. the device is mounted to a board and connected to a piece of metal (about 5x7) also mounted on the board. To use the device one would place 4x5 film on the metal plate and an object on top of the film. One would then push the plunger one or more times to make the exposure. obviously, this is done in the dark or with ortho film under the appropriate safe light. I only used Tri-X. I still have the one I made and am pretty sure I even have the notes from the workshop. I haven't used it in maybe 30 years or so.
This device is a lot less sophisticated than the commercial model listed at the start of this thread and it operates at much lower power but, if you have an old grill that you can scrounge an igniter from, a scrap piece of wood, and a soda can that can be cut to form the metal plate, you can make one for free.
Thank you for this. I've been playing all evening with some ortho film. I bought a little handheld gas peizo lighter for my hobs so I'd stop using matches but the spark is at an awkward place so I stopped trying to use it. Now I've blu-tacked a bit of wire to it, blutacked the wire to a piece of brass sheet I have around so I can try to make pinholes... Has more than enough power for coins, only has enough power for a finger tip but you can do multiple exposures anyway. I'll post some scans of the ortho film once it's dried.
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