Well I never thought about that use but one of those laser tape measures from any home improvement store would give you the footage and probably inches to a subject so you could set the distance to subject from the dial on the lens. --- On Sun, 10/19/08, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: [SPAM] Re: DIY photo equipment > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 7:03 AM > By coincidence a friend showed me his laser focus aid > Sunday. It is a > green astronomy pointer that he says is useful for doing > dim interiors. > Got it from Amazon. It is a passive device not a detector > or measuring > gadget. I'd like to see a measuring device that works > at larger > distances than 100' I need it to set footage scale for > camera with no > viewfinder. > > AZ > > Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! > The Lookaround Book. > Now an E-book. > http://www.panoramacamera.us > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: [SPAM] Re: DIY photo equipment > > From: rush rouge <pixelrouge@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sun, October 19, 2008 7:41 am > > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - > Students > > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:03 AM, karl shah-jenner > <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > *a laser focussing aid for macro and large format > photography (it can be > > > used on any camera) > > > > > > * a two / three beam pulsed infrared camera > trigger - so say when the fly > > > is precisely *here* in the frame (and 2 beams are > broken) the camera goes > > > off or, when something cat height walks through > this precise spot the > > > camera fires, but not if something dog height > walks through. (I really > > > should use this thing more too!) > > hmmn , this should be a very useful DIY for me... Is > there a possiblity of > > having more info on this one ??? > > Regards > > Rush __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
