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- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Subject: Re: Triggering multiple flashes to "paint with light"
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Oct6.151125.15989@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 06:46:33 GMT
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- fontana@dogwood.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana) writes:
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- >A friend and I have some ideas for photographs using the "painting with
- >light" technique. In short, this involves taking a completely dark
- >room full of interesting objects, opening the shutter, and popping a
- >flash multiple times from various angles. The hard part here is not to
- >catch your own image or shadow in the picture.
-
- >Well, I have an idea. A friend of mine works in a photo lab and grabbed
- >the guts of a dozen of those throwaway cameras with built-in flash.
- >So I now have 12 identical little flash circuits, each running on its
- >own AA battery.
-
- >What I'd like to do is position these tiny flashes all around the room,
- >then fire the first flash manually. The other flash circuits would detect
- >this main flash and delay for a preset interval before firing. That is,
- >the first flash would fire 1 sec after the main flash, the second would
- >fire 2 seconds after the main flash, etc.
-
- <some stuff deleted.>
- >Thanks,
-
- >Mark Fontana
-
- Well, if I were going to do that, I wouldn't mess with light-detection.
- That would be incredibly difficult, especially building n amount of
- circuits. Instead, I'd make a "sequencer" circuit - probably a
- combination of a 555 timer, a BCD counter, and a BCD-to-1-of-16 decoder.
- This would result in the outputs turning on, one at a time, at a preset
- interval (depending on the r's and c's on the 555.)
-
- I would then run tiny wires all over the room from the sequencer circuit
- to each of the flashes. You'd probably need driver transistors and
- perhaps relays in order for a digital output to control the flashes.
-
- Sounds like an interesting photo technique. I'd like to hear about it if
- it works...
-
- If you need chip numbers for the circuit I described above, I can dig
- them up. let me know.
-
- If you really want a separate light-detector for each flash, it would be
- a matter of photo transistors and driver circuitry hooked up to a 555
- timer wired as a one-shot timer, wired in turn to the same driver
- transistor / relay mentioned above and then hooked to the flash.
-
- Further questions - best to use Email, since I browse this group rather
- quickly, and might miss a reply.
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