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Reply-To: "Scott Berfield" 


Hi all. I am getting close to polishing out my 12" and have started
teaching myself to use the Foucault rig I built. What I have discovered is
that because of some damage to my eyes from an illness many years ago, I
have a great deal of trouble resolving the image of the mirror clearly (I
have a buildup of protein on the lenses in both eyes as well as some
permanent "floaters"). I tried snapping some pics using a small
Web cam I have and the shape of the mirror was far more visible in the pics
than it was to my eye. Unfortunately, the Web cams don't have sufficient
zoom to get the image big enough and the compression artifacts are pretty
ugly. I know a lot of you use video for your Foucault testers and I was
looking for suggestions on rigs/equipment. I have a nice digital camcorder
that I could probably figure out a rig for, but it is sort of bulky and the
auto-focus auto-iris, etc... Are only somewhat manually adjustable.
Suggestions?

-sb

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