On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:28:46 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> You know what might be cool?
>>>
>>> TIME-LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY.
>> 
>> I'm not sure how a time-lapse photo of something so quick would
>> work....
> 
> No, I mean... High-speed photography requires specialised equipment.
> Time lapse only requires a regular camera. So do time lapse [of
> something else].

OIC, it wasn't clear you were changing subjects. ;-)  I've done time-
lapse photography with my digital camera - built-in setting for it.

> But since you comment... take a long exposure of a night sky, and you
> get quite an impressive effect. Ever see those photographs with 25
> lightning strikes in the same image? Long exposure. Several flashes
> captured in a single frame. (This *also* requires special equipment,
> mind you...)

Yeah, I've seen that done as well - my camera also can do up to a 25 
second exposure, but Canon cameras with CHDK installed can do even longer 
times IIRC.

Jim

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Florian Pesth wrote:
> Nice steampunk :)

The full movie is actually very nice steampunk. :-) The fast-forward 
sequences are lovely.

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Eero Ahonen wrote:

> Yep. Like my Nikon F65 (an entry-level SLR).

Isn't that like claiming an "entry-level particle accelerator" is not 
"special equipment"? :-P

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Invisible wrote:
> Eero Ahonen wrote:
> 
>> Yep. Like my Nikon F65 (an entry-level SLR).
> 
> Isn't that like claiming an "entry-level particle accelerator" is not
> "special equipment"? :-P

If a camera, that cost 300 euros at 2005 while bought as new, is special
equipment, then possibly yes.

-Aero

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>>> Yep. Like my Nikon F65 (an entry-level SLR).
>> Isn't that like claiming an "entry-level particle accelerator" is not
>> "special equipment"? :-P
> 
> If a camera, that cost 300 euros at 2005 while bought as new, is special
> equipment, then possibly yes.

Heh. SLR is much, much cheaper than it used to be...

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Invisible wrote:
>>>> Yep. Like my Nikon F65 (an entry-level SLR).
>>> Isn't that like claiming an "entry-level particle accelerator" is not
>>> "special equipment"? :-P
>>
>> If a camera, that cost 300 euros at 2005 while bought as new, is special
>> equipment, then possibly yes.
> 
> Heh. SLR is much, much cheaper than it used to be...

Yes, if we look back enough. Today I'd say you can't get a decent SLR
for 300e from Finland, since they are all D-SLR's now. F65 still uses
35mm film.

-Aero

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On 10/6/2009 3:08 AM, Invisible wrote:

> Isn't that like claiming an "entry-level particle accelerator" is not
> "special equipment"? :-P

Mm, New from Fischer-Price: My First Particle accelerator: Comes with 
everything needed to build your very own proton accelerator in you own 
home. Comes complete with 15MW generators, bubble chamber, and a 
large-scale farm of analysis computers and data collection equipment. Be 
the first on your block to discover the enigmatic Higgs Boson.

-- 
~Mike

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>> Isn't that like claiming an "entry-level particle accelerator" is not
>> "special equipment"? :-P
> 
> Mm, New from Fischer-Price: My First Particle accelerator: Comes with 
> everything needed to build your very own proton accelerator in you own 
> home. Comes complete with 15MW generators, bubble chamber, and a 
> large-scale farm of analysis computers and data collection equipment. Be 
> the first on your block to discover the enigmatic Higgs Boson.

WIN!

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Orchid XP v8 schrieb:
>>> Isn't that like claiming an "entry-level particle accelerator" is not
>>> "special equipment"? :-P
>>
>> Mm, New from Fischer-Price: My First Particle accelerator: Comes with 
>> everything needed to build your very own proton accelerator in you own 
>> home. Comes complete with 15MW generators, bubble chamber, and a 
>> large-scale farm of analysis computers and data collection equipment. 
>> Be the first on your block to discover the enigmatic Higgs Boson.

I'd guess though that at a university with a strong natural science 
branch, they wouldn't call their own local particle accelerator "special 
equipment" - because there's actually not much magic in, say, a 
Van-de-Graaf- or even a Tandem accelerator, let alone a small Cyclotron, 
and a university might well be capable to "DIY" such a thing if they set 
their mind to it. (The basic technology has been around since the '30s 
of the last century.)

What they /will/ call "special equipment" are probably all the 
accessories: Sputter (ion) sources, particle detectors, data analysis 
electronics and stuff like that; and they'll be very proud of each of 
those thingumajigs they produced themselves. (At Cologne university, for 
instance, they develop their own signal processing hardware, including 
custom ASICs; they also tried to roll their own detector crystals, but 
failed...)

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