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Old September 22nd 09, 11:40 AM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
JamieM
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LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...-laser-shield/

"If you ask a young boy to spec out his ideal boat, you might hear of
helipads, swimming pools, missile-proof hulls, mini-submarines and laser
shields. Well, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is one of those people
with the time and money to listen to his inner child, and he's gone and put
all of the above together inside a $1.2 billion 557-foot vessel of luxury
and excess. The Eclipse will attempt to repel paparazzi with a laser system
that is said to "detect CCDs" (we suspect they mean it detects the autofocus
light), and responds with an intense beam of light that precludes unwanted
photography. We don't know how well the automatic system will work, but it
must be fun to manually point the lasers at the paps and go "pew pew!"

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Old September 22nd 09, 01:06 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:40:48 +0100, "JamieM" wrote:

LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...-laser-shield/

"If you ask a young boy to spec out his ideal boat, you might hear of
helipads, swimming pools, missile-proof hulls, mini-submarines and laser
shields. Well, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is one of those people
with the time and money to listen to his inner child, and he's gone and put
all of the above together inside a $1.2 billion 557-foot vessel of luxury
and excess. The Eclipse will attempt to repel paparazzi with a laser system
that is said to "detect CCDs" (we suspect they mean it detects the autofocus
light), and responds with an intense beam of light that precludes unwanted
photography. We don't know how well the automatic system will work, but it
must be fun to manually point the lasers at the paps and go "pew pew!"


A much simpler, much more inexpensive, and more effective concept was a
baseball cap with 3 or 4 small slave-triggered flash-units in it. Whenever
paparazzi would fire a flash at the intended celebrity the flash's would
instantly fire back ruining all their shots. This was of course most
effective at night, but then that's when their cameras are the most
annoying.
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Old September 22nd 09, 01:06 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Gettamulla Tupya
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:40:48 +0100, "JamieM" wrote:

LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...-laser-shield/


I wonder if it works for speed cameras? ;-)

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Old September 22nd 09, 01:22 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
JamieM
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"Glen Talberts" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:40:48 +0100, "JamieM"
wrote:

LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...-laser-shield/

"If you ask a young boy to spec out his ideal boat, you might hear of
helipads, swimming pools, missile-proof hulls, mini-submarines and laser
shields. Well, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is one of those people
with the time and money to listen to his inner child, and he's gone and
put
all of the above together inside a $1.2 billion 557-foot vessel of luxury
and excess. The Eclipse will attempt to repel paparazzi with a laser
system
that is said to "detect CCDs" (we suspect they mean it detects the
autofocus
light), and responds with an intense beam of light that precludes unwanted
photography. We don't know how well the automatic system will work, but it
must be fun to manually point the lasers at the paps and go "pew pew!"



A much simpler, much more inexpensive, and more effective concept was a
baseball cap with 3 or 4 small slave-triggered flash-units in it. Whenever
paparazzi would fire a flash at the intended celebrity the flash's would
instantly fire back ruining all their shots. This was of course most
effective at night, but then that's when their cameras are the most
annoying.




I'm sure he would look super cool wearing that set-up, as would his guests.
;-)

OK, so we can safely say that Engadget were just being stupid by suggesting
it detects the AF light.

But, I very much doubt it's picking up the "CCD" either, after all, the
sensor would be
behind both a mirror and the shutter most of the time. I'm guessing it's
nothing more than big f*ck off flood lights, maybe with some automatic heat
signature recognition guidance just to be fancy? But then that would mean
they would need a
lot if they were swarmed by paps.

As for lazer, it that were true, I'm sure that would lead to no end of
public liability
claims.

So basically, the way I see it, is that it's just more PR bollox to show off
his new toy.

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Old September 22nd 09, 02:13 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
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"JamieM" wrote in message
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"Glen Talberts" wrote in message
OK, so we can safely say that Engadget were just being stupid by
suggesting
it detects the AF light.

Hmmmm, switch to manual focus!


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Old September 22nd 09, 02:37 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Chris Malcolm[_2_]
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Glen Talberts wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:40:48 +0100, "JamieM" wrote:


LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...-laser-shield/

"If you ask a young boy to spec out his ideal boat, you might hear of
helipads, swimming pools, missile-proof hulls, mini-submarines and laser
shields. Well, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is one of those people
with the time and money to listen to his inner child, and he's gone and put
all of the above together inside a $1.2 billion 557-foot vessel of luxury
and excess. The Eclipse will attempt to repel paparazzi with a laser system
that is said to "detect CCDs" (we suspect they mean it detects the autofocus
light), and responds with an intense beam of light that precludes unwanted
photography. We don't know how well the automatic system will work, but it
must be fun to manually point the lasers at the paps and go "pew pew!"


A much simpler, much more inexpensive, and more effective concept was a
baseball cap with 3 or 4 small slave-triggered flash-units in it. Whenever
paparazzi would fire a flash at the intended celebrity the flash's would
instantly fire back ruining all their shots. This was of course most
effective at night, but then that's when their cameras are the most
annoying.


So anyone using pre-flash metering would be able to photograph the
celebrity, since the pre-flash would fire the cap guns leaving them
empty for the proper flash. And anyone not using pre-flash would
simply need to trigger any old flash just before the real photograph.
Not really much of an obstacle. I suspect this device was far more
giggled over than ever actually used.

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Old September 22nd 09, 03:05 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Whatta maroon ...
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On 22 Sep 2009 13:37:14 GMT, Chris Malcolm wrote:

Glen Talberts wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:40:48 +0100, "JamieM" wrote:


LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...-laser-shield/

"If you ask a young boy to spec out his ideal boat, you might hear of
helipads, swimming pools, missile-proof hulls, mini-submarines and laser
shields. Well, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is one of those people
with the time and money to listen to his inner child, and he's gone and put
all of the above together inside a $1.2 billion 557-foot vessel of luxury
and excess. The Eclipse will attempt to repel paparazzi with a laser system
that is said to "detect CCDs" (we suspect they mean it detects the autofocus
light), and responds with an intense beam of light that precludes unwanted
photography. We don't know how well the automatic system will work, but it
must be fun to manually point the lasers at the paps and go "pew pew!"


A much simpler, much more inexpensive, and more effective concept was a
baseball cap with 3 or 4 small slave-triggered flash-units in it. Whenever
paparazzi would fire a flash at the intended celebrity the flash's would
instantly fire back ruining all their shots. This was of course most
effective at night, but then that's when their cameras are the most
annoying.


So anyone using pre-flash metering would be able to photograph the
celebrity, since the pre-flash would fire the cap guns leaving them
empty for the proper flash. And anyone not using pre-flash would
simply need to trigger any old flash just before the real photograph.
Not really much of an obstacle. I suspect this device was far more
giggled over than ever actually used.


I suspect that even more people giggled over your ignorance on the
existence of slaves that easily compensate for all pre-flash situations. I
use several of these kinds of slaves myself. You really should give up
posting to usenet. Every post you make only reveals the vast depths of your
ignorance and inexperience stemming from your one and only virtual-reality
life. Try as you might, you can never pull it off.



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Old September 22nd 09, 04:35 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Chris H
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In message , Chris Malcolm
writes
Glen Talberts wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:40:48 +0100, "JamieM" wrote:


LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...s-eclipse-has-
anti-photo-laser-shield/

"If you ask a young boy to spec out his ideal boat, you might hear of
helipads, swimming pools, missile-proof hulls, mini-submarines and laser
shields. Well, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is one of those people
with the time and money to listen to his inner child, and he's gone and put
all of the above together inside a $1.2 billion 557-foot vessel of luxury
and excess. The Eclipse will attempt to repel paparazzi with a laser system
that is said to "detect CCDs" (we suspect they mean it detects the autofocus
light), and responds with an intense beam of light that precludes unwanted
photography. We don't know how well the automatic system will work, but it
must be fun to manually point the lasers at the paps and go "pew pew!"


A much simpler, much more inexpensive, and more effective concept was a
baseball cap with 3 or 4 small slave-triggered flash-units in it. Whenever
paparazzi would fire a flash at the intended celebrity the flash's would
instantly fire back ruining all their shots. This was of course most
effective at night, but then that's when their cameras are the most
annoying.


So anyone using pre-flash metering would be able to photograph the
celebrity, since the pre-flash would fire the cap guns leaving them
empty for the proper flash.


You clearly haven't seen the size of the power plant on that ship.....
recycle times of 0.05 second?

And anyone not using pre-flash would
simply need to trigger any old flash just before the real photograph.
Not really much of an obstacle. I suspect this device was far more
giggled over than ever actually used.


SO you will risk your camera on it then?

However I think you are right. More hype than substance especially as
you would be able to claim for criminal damage? Also if the mirror is
down any lazer that will harm a ccd will harm an eyeball....

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Old September 22nd 09, 07:59 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Chris Malcolm[_2_]
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Whatta maroon ... wrote:
On 22 Sep 2009 13:37:14 GMT, Chris Malcolm wrote:


Glen Talberts wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:40:48 +0100, "JamieM" wrote:


LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...-laser-shield/

"If you ask a young boy to spec out his ideal boat, you might hear of
helipads, swimming pools, missile-proof hulls, mini-submarines and laser
shields. Well, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is one of those people
with the time and money to listen to his inner child, and he's gone and put
all of the above together inside a $1.2 billion 557-foot vessel of luxury
and excess. The Eclipse will attempt to repel paparazzi with a laser system
that is said to "detect CCDs" (we suspect they mean it detects the autofocus
light), and responds with an intense beam of light that precludes unwanted
photography. We don't know how well the automatic system will work, but it
must be fun to manually point the lasers at the paps and go "pew pew!"


A much simpler, much more inexpensive, and more effective concept was a
baseball cap with 3 or 4 small slave-triggered flash-units in it. Whenever
paparazzi would fire a flash at the intended celebrity the flash's would
instantly fire back ruining all their shots. This was of course most
effective at night, but then that's when their cameras are the most
annoying.


So anyone using pre-flash metering would be able to photograph the
celebrity, since the pre-flash would fire the cap guns leaving them
empty for the proper flash. And anyone not using pre-flash would
simply need to trigger any old flash just before the real photograph.
Not really much of an obstacle. I suspect this device was far more
giggled over than ever actually used.


I suspect that even more people giggled over your ignorance on the
existence of slaves that easily compensate for all pre-flash situations. I
use several of these kinds of slaves myself.


You surprise me, because if you did, you would know that you have to
set the generic kinds up or "train" them to each specific kind of
pre-flash. So not much use in the cap flash gadget, unless the
celebrity can rely on the photographic stalkers to be using one
specific kind of flash technology.

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Old September 22nd 09, 10:05 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Alan Browne
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Gettamulla Tupya wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:40:48 +0100, "JamieM" wrote:

LOL, didn't realise it was April fools day yet.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/22/r...-laser-shield/


I wonder if it works for speed cameras? ;-)


Here the law is very clear that you cannot make a contrivance to defeat
radar, lasers or cameras used in speed enforcement.
 




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