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Aircraft posted:It was, actually - you probably wouldn't want to pull out that lens if there's an Apache attack helicopter circling ominously overhead Yeah seriously. Actually, on a crop body 500 mm should have about a 3 degree field of view, enough to resolve the Gallilean moons. The lunar eclipse on 20th would be sweet too but it's raining all next week 
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I know sending a camera up in a weather balloon to take photos/video of earth from way up high isn't exactly ground-breaking at this point, but I just stumbled across a project from a couple MIT kids who did it, on a ridiculously small budget ($150), and documented the whole process pretty well: http://space.1337arts.com/ My buddy and I have been talking casually for the past couple months about trying this, and after seeing how simply they overcame a few of the basic problems I was struggling with, in addition to the low budget, I think we're really gonna go for it. We're planning on gathering materials and testing throughout January and hopefully launching sometime in February. I'll be sure to start a thread once we've made any real progress to gather input because I'm sure you smart people will have lots of good ideas that I otherwise wouldn't think of!
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pseudonordic posted:It's a camera made specifically for taking a poo poo ton of portraits in a single session. Mostly used for school pictures. I've seen a pair of these listed on the local craigslist. No idea what kind of film would be needed to go in them. 70mm film 
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BobTheCow posted:I know sending a camera up in a weather balloon to take photos/video of earth from way up high isn't exactly ground-breaking at this point, but I just stumbled across a project from a couple MIT kids who did it, on a ridiculously small budget ($150), and documented the whole process pretty well: http://space.1337arts.com/ I looked into doing something like this when the $150 project first made the rounds. Note that one of their professors donated the helium. Unless you get helium donated you won't be able to do it on anywhere near a $150 budget. Should still be possible under $1000 though.
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What about hydrogen. EDIT: I've recently been thinking about the various merits of say, making a really nice portfolio page, and having some nice business cards printed up for art photography then pulling a stunt like standing in disease infested lake for a few days to take photos or attaching balloons to a chair and taking photos of the curvature of the earth, whilst breaking plenty of FAA laws. Helmacron fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Dec 20, 2010 |
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I love flying cameras, and I gently caress around with a rc plane and a little keyfob camera. I've looked into the balloon thing, and the helium is going to be about 100$ as far as I can tell, unless you have a wholesale source or something. But yeah, it's as simple as a camera with chdk and a cheap cell phone that can trasmit its position. The helium is the most expensive part. I've looked into using hydrogen, and it seems that the best way to do it if you can. I know simply mixing worx toliet cleaner and aluminum will generate it, but I'm pretty sure there is a toxic by product. ease fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Dec 20, 2010 |
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ease posted:I love flying cameras, and I gently caress around with a rc plane and a little keyfob camera. I've looked into the balloon thing, and the helium is going to be about 100$ as far as I can tell, unless you have a wholesale source or something. But yeah, it's as simple as a camera with chdk and a cheap cell phone that can trasmit its position. The helium is the most expensive part. If you don't need the aircraft to go far, you can buy a remote control helicopter with a video camera built in for around $50 at the toy store. I believe it's the Air Hogs Hawkeye or something like that.
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Helmacron posted:What about hydrogen. Get a kickstarter I would pledge some bux to see you do this.
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Helmacron posted:or attaching balloons to a chair and taking photos of the curvature of the earth, whilst breaking plenty of FAA laws. That's the fun of weather balloons: as long as the payload is under a certain weight and dimensions, it's completely unregulated and you can float whatever you want. So leave off the chair part and avoid launching the thing near an airport, the FAA won't care at all. Their biggest concern is what happens to an airplane that runs into it.. if it doesn't crash a plane, it's fair game.
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xzzy posted:That's the fun of weather balloons: as long as the payload is under a certain weight and dimensions, it's completely unregulated and you can float whatever you want. If it has a cell phone as part of its payload you would still be violating FCC regulations. Not that anyone cares.
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Cross_ posted:If it has a cell phone as part of its payload you would still be violating FCC regulations. Not that anyone cares. Okay, I'm curious. Why wouldn't the FCC allow you to send a cell phone up on a balloon?
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I saw a winning entry in a photography contest posted in this forum a while back, it was an adult French man facing left sitting nude in a chair, square crop. The caption explained his mother had died recently. Does anybody have a link? Google isn't getting me anything.
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ease posted:I've looked into the balloon thing, and the helium is going to be about 100$ as far as I can tell It's probably cheaper in America. It looked to be about $500 worth here in Australia.
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silsor posted:I saw a winning entry in a photography contest posted in this forum a while back, it was an adult French man facing left sitting nude in a chair, square crop. The caption explained his mother had died recently. Does anybody have a link? Google isn't getting me anything. http://www.flickr.com/photos/benoitpaille/3271543571/
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Well I didn't get into any art galleries next year. I sent proposals to four. I also didn't get into any universities. I applied to three. I don't actually feel sorry for myself. Just perturbed. I heard nothing back from any of them and then a rash of rejections. I spent a couple hundred just printing photos for everything. I'm going to start sending proposals to stores that just sell artwork. I gave a couple CD's to people in stores like that and they always put them in like, an in-tray and say "we'll have a look at them later" and I stand there awkwardly, thank them and leave. And never hear anything back ever. And if this doesn't work, I'll have to, I don't know. I'm at a loss. Do my plan higher up this page and purchase a weather balloon and a deck chair.
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murphle posted:Okay, I'm curious. Why wouldn't the FCC allow you to send a cell phone up on a balloon? Basically the FCC is concerned that a phone traversing multiple cells quickly might cause malfunctions during tower handoffs. Wikipedia has some details on that. The legal text is here: http://cfr.vlex.com/vid/925-prohibition-airborne-cellular-telephones-19847813 Since the FAA also prohibits cell phone use on airliners and during IFR (instrument flights) for safety reasons, they never really bothered checking whether there is a reason to uphold the ban: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cellonplanes.html Note that private and commercial pilots are free to use cell phones according to FAA regulations, but not according to FCC. All my flight instructors left their cell phones on while in the air for what it's worth.
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Didn't mythbusters radiate a whole bunch of microwaves into a cockpit to see if any extreme case could affect flight instruments and find it really doesn't?
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I thought they just wanted all cell phones off in planes because it used to be super annoying, listening to the phones send out their lonely "I'm here" calls on the dark bytes of the universe that your speakers pick up. They don't do that, anymore though. Or not nearly as bad.
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ease posted:Didn't mythbusters radiate a whole bunch of microwaves into a cockpit to see if any extreme case could affect flight instruments and find it really doesn't? I got into an argument with a pilot who was flying next to me once over EMI because he's a pilot and I'm an aerospace systems engineer. There's effectively no threat to the plane, despite what he said. afaik, it's a safety hazard in the case of an emergency and may be disruptive to the cell network to have people reregister across cells rapidly as they move in the air.
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ease posted:Didn't mythbusters radiate a whole bunch of microwaves into a cockpit to see if any extreme case could affect flight instruments and find it really doesn't? Ah Mythbusters, never getting tired of trying to prove a negative.
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guidoanselmi posted:it's a safety hazard in the case of an emergency How so? Also, my dad who was a pilot used to get free calls back in the days when mobile phone calls cost as much as satellite calls do now. Something about being at FL200 and moving fast confusing the towers just enough to not bill him.
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Captain Postal posted:How so? I'd guess because once some people turn on a phone, they become oblivious to everything around them. Up to, and including, actual flames.
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Captain Postal posted:How so? Probably taxes the network as they all handover from cell to cell rapidly. So keeping the network up in case of emergency= good.
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This is how I roll 
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psylent posted:This is how I roll That's sweet but I would worry about someone breaking into my car to steal the 2500 dollar lens it seems like I own. Then they come back and piss inside my open car because they found out that it was actually 1.75 worth of coffee. And drank it.
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That one looks like the lens proper, my model has a spout on top and not a lens cap.
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Yeah that's the real one. I picked it up from the rental place and needed somewhere to put it while loading poo poo into my car.
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Helmacron posted:Well I didn't get into any art galleries next year. I sent proposals to four. I also didn't get into any universities. I applied to three. I don't actually feel sorry for myself. Just perturbed. I heard nothing back from any of them and then a rash of rejections. I spent a couple hundred just printing photos for everything. Have you shown work anywhere in public before? If not, try non-traditional galleries first to get some resume experience. It's pretty easy to get shows in places like bookstores, local libraries, or coffee shops. From there, look for local "Calls for Art" or group shows. Once you've got some showing experience listed on paper, galleries are more likely to pay attention to you. If you already know what you're doing though, disregard this. I'm trying to work through that stuff too and it definitely takes awhile. Being able to schmooze people is really damned important if you want to get into shows - go to their openings, chat 'em up, drink their booze, then mention the proposal again when they know who you are. That might help too. Just don't be like this guy I know on facebook: "if I do not get excepted for the photography group... which I'm sure I will... but if not I will be retiring from photography..." (dude shoots nothing but HDR myspacey shots with the $4000 setup he bought on a whim, threatens to quit photography every month or so and always gets a slew of "no you are too good you can't quit!" messages, it rules) Dr. Cogwerks fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Dec 23, 2010 |
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rear end is my canvas posted:Probably taxes the network as they all handover from cell to cell rapidly. So keeping the network up in case of emergency= good. that was the second pt. the safety one was the oblivious passengers. psylent posted:This is how I roll speaking of safety, watch out for apaches.
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tuyop posted:I really like the Visuals by Laforet app. He does make me feel really bad about my own photographic abilities, though... thank goodness I can finally know what the proper settings are to get a good shot of the new york skyline
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I waited till the last minute to print out a photogift, and my printer decides it only wants to print half pages for a while and the run out of ink. Using CVSs online photo printing store, hoping for Christmas magic for ok quality. E: Conclusion : CVS has a better printer than I do. ease fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Dec 24, 2010 |
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Whenever I want decent prints quick I use Target's one-hour (not instant) service. Pretty good results for cheap. I printed four 8x10s this morning for copout Christmas gifts for a grand total of like six bucks.
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Did mine at blacks. Five 8x10s and two 5x7s for 30 bucks. They look really good though.
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I use costco. Pretty cheap and they have color profiles available for their printers.
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I use Costco too. The Norinco printer at mine is spot on with my prints after I calibrated my monitor and used the profiles at drycreekphoto.
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So this is pretty f'ing cool: Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera - A First  quote:
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Cross_ posted:Ah Mythbusters, never getting tired of trying to prove a negative. Helmacron posted:I thought they just wanted all cell phones off in planes because it used to be super annoying, listening to the phones send out their lonely "I'm here" calls on the dark bytes of the universe that your speakers pick up.
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bobfather posted:I use Costco too. The Norinco printer at mine is spot on with my prints after I calibrated my monitor and used the profiles at drycreekphoto. Doesen't Norinco make weapons and poo poo for the Chinese military?
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