Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 11/18/02 bdcolen wrote: >Don't you love that, Nathan? (The people taking flash photos of Halley's >comet). It's almost as hopelessly dumb as the people at stadium rock >concerts snapping away with their point and shoots with flash...Boy, >would I like a flash I could control with, say, 150 yard range...:-) The Nova II and its sequel the Super Nova Type Ia were withdrawn from commercial commerce due to the flashburns suffered by those within 15m of the light source. There were other problems with them that also contributed: the homopolar generator was a pain and the wrist-thick cables got in the way, not to mention the plywood baffles because the capacitors had this problem with exploding. Can't think WHY they were discontinued. This article courtesy of the F&SF "products of future-past". AB - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html