Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:54 PM 1/16/99 -0600, you wrote: >This afternoon while my daughter was taking a nap I was playing with >my Noctilux and decided to see what happened when I shined a flash >light through it.... >Well, anyone ever seen Star Trek and when the Enterprise uses its >phasers? Well that is the result. 1/2 half of my house is now >gone...no ashes, cinders or anything...just gone. Thank goodness my >daughter was in the remaining 1/2. And thank goodness I shut the dern >flashlight off before I took out the neighbors house. >Gadzooks I am going to have a hard enough time enplaning this to >my insurance company...they'll probably instutionalize me. Oh if only >Bill Grimwood was my agent he would understand. >Guess with a summilux you would only start a fire? >Best regards, > Harrison McClary Time and time again we warn against playing around carelessly with the Noctilux, lighting matches in front of it, photographing lightning, but do they listen? This is serious stuff. 1 is a critical number- you don't get apertures like that without some sort of meddling with the time-space continuum. Be careful. Don't put just any light through a Noctilux. Look for the dark light- it at least is safe. Joe Berenbaum