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Anti-Photo Laser Shield
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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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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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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"Glen Talberts" wrote in message
... 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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"JamieM" wrote in message ... "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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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. -- Chris Malcolm |
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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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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.... -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ |
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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. -- Chris Malcolm |
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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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