If your interested, I made this 3D concept sketch during my lunch break: <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/FOH.dwf> <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/FOH_2.dwf>
My flash has antennae!!! :-) You'll need to download and install a .dwf viewer though: <http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform?siteID=123112&id=9131297> <http://www.bravaviewer.com/viewers.htm> (I've not used this one) Cheers, Dave On 8/23/07, AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's one concern to take seriously. I've seen light sources for > fibre optics with a circular "snout" where the fibre bundle goes in. > However it should be doable to make a contraption like that to fit the > head of an ordinary flash. Perhaps just do a styrofoam "proof of > concept" first and then make something more serious later if the light > throughput is sufficient. > > Jostein > > 2007/8/22, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Many, many years ago, I tried to make a fibre optic bundle for a light > > painting project. I aquired a couple of roll ends of fibre optic thread from > > a friend at the local telephone company (at the time, they were just > > starting to install the stuff in a big way for data transfer), and the > > biggest heat shrink tubing I could find. > > I spent an afternoon cutting threads and packing them into the shrink > > tubing, and then I shrank the tube down to hold everything in place. > > The thing definitely transferred light, but I didn't ever figure out a good > > way to attach the fiber optic to a light source. > > > > William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
