Re: bellows extension in The Hole

>Well, you realize that autocollimation can make you go blind, don't you?

IT's pretty dark in The Hole. Who cares. It's worth it.

--shannon

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>On Dec 2, 2005, at 7:17 PM, Shannon Stoney wrote:
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>>>Richard Knoppow wrote on 12/2/05, 3:19 PM:
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>>> > If there is no really distant object to use one can focus
>>> > a lens exactly at infintity by autocollimation.
>>>
>>>I just can't resist this one. If you're taking photographs, you can
>>>"usually" find some distant objects. I say usually because there are
>>>rare exceptions. When I was in solitary confinement in Federal Prison,
>>>there was simply no way to find a distant object within the 5x8 cell.
>>>Had I known about it, I could have passed my time contemplating
>>>"autocollimation." ;^)
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>>You have hit on my exact problem. I was taking a picture inside
>>an old prison cell in the Walls Unit in Huntsville, TX (in the 19th
>>century building). ( I saw the "hole" there, by the way. It was a
>>closet (as you may know). It was smaller than 5x8. I took a
>>picture of it, and that one turned out fine. ) Anyway, back to the
>>cell. I was trying to take a picture of the sink and toilet, right
>>next to each other. Evidently I over-adjusted for bellows extension
>>in the tight spaces there, and the print was way over exposed. But
>>I think now I understand why: i was using expodev wrong.
>>
>>I should have been contemplating autocollimation. Sounds like
>>something that might be sin in Catholicism, as well as within the
>>Texas Dept of Corrections system.
>>
>>Solidarity forever.
>>
>>--shannon
Received on Sat Dec 3 06:49:19 2005