On Fri, 7 May 1999, Wayne Harridge wrote:
>> Someone once showed me an example of the effect of mirror
>> slap/shutter shake
>> that really stuck in my mind. He mounted the camera normally
>> onto his tripod
>> and put a glass of water on top, resting on the flash shoe.
>> When the system
>> fired off a frame you could clearly see the ripples of water
>> in the glass.
>> Made a believer out of me.
I shall have to try this out!
>Reminds me of the story I heard about the Rolls Royce engineers - They would
>stand a penny (a UK coin about 3cm in diameter) on edge on a running engine
>to demonstrate how little vibration was present.
Ditto for Lexus. I saw this on a used LS400, one from the early
90s, with 50k miles on it. You could balance a US quarter on edge.
Mercedes tried the same on their latest V6 incarnation, and they
failed--of course, it was because there was not a horizontal surface to
stand the coin on!
--
"Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the
sky / ..." --/Prufrock/ Wow, what a work....
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