Re: Greg Leyh's Coils (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 10:39:25 +0800
From: Peter Terren <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Greg Leyh's Coils (fwd)

A little harsh, Ed.
As a TC photographer of some experience, I occasionally use a flash.
For example for my shots in a pool it was the only way to snap the motion of 
the ripples in the pool but still have a longer exposure of 0.5 seconds to 
get a reasonable number of sparks.  Without using the flash, the pool 
surface blurs out and looks unnatural.
http://tesladownunder.com/tesla_coil_sparks.htm#Pool
If I wanted to capture moving people in the background being still as well 
as sparks then I would use a flash and and a long exposure.  You have to 
know your cameras manual settings well to be able to arrange this and 
usually only available on SLR cameras.
Of course I realise that people were just using the default settings on 
their point and shoot cameras and were probably getting disappointing 
results.
Cheers
Peter

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> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 14:23:52 -0700
> From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Greg Leyh's Coils (fwd)
>
>    Great pictures!  Wonder what the idiots shooting flash managed to 
> catch?
>
> Ed