Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Tripod myth
From: Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 10:22:15 +0300
 
Dan Cardish wrote:

> The question becomes, "Lets say you see a certain amount of
> occillation in
> the laser spot, more with one tripod than the other, how do you
> correlate
> this with photograph sharpness?"

Mount a camera on the tripod, along with the laser. Trip the shutter of
the camera. Watch the laser spot on the other end.

Bernard

>
>
> Dan C.
>
> At 07:55 PM 07-01-00 -0500, Jonathan Borden wrote:
> >This can be studied quite scientifically in the following fashion:
> >
> >Place the tripod on a road. Mount a laser on the tripod and point it
> at a
> >target one mile away. Spot through a scope and measure the
> oscillation of
> >the laser on the remote target.
> >
> >In fact, Wild/Leica Geosystems sells such a device for this
> experiment.
> >Wild/Leica also sells a reference tripod made of ash for this
> experiment :-)
> [snip]
>
> NO ARCHIVE
>
>