'Fusioneering' mini-documentary

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'Fusioneering' mini-documentary

Postby Kai_Clear » Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:06 am

Hi there,

I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself, I'm Kai and I'm the guy behind the camera in the documentary Jonathan Howard and I made http://vimeo.com/kaiclear/fusioneer



Well it's been 10 months since then and thanks to Doug, Bill and the rest of the coultersmithing.com gang Jonathan is up and running with the second iteration of his fusor. So here is our follow up mini-documentary 'Fusioneering' http://vimeo.com/kaiclear/fusioneering

I hope you guys enjoy it, please let me know you thoughts and if you would like to see more.

Excelsior!

Kai Clear
http://www.kaiclear.com
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Re: 'Fusioneering' mini-documentary

Postby Doug Coulter » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:13 pm

Glad we could help! Nice work guys!

I see Jon now has a lot better focus in the fusor, and a much better control over gas as well. I'm not quite as rad-averse, so at the levels I'm running, and the amount of time I run for, I'm not worried, but if we make any major improvements in output, yup, the thing is going in the local cave to be run remotely. For now, the fact that my fusor is lead-wrapped seems to be enough.

I'll miss my direct view, which we get through a couple layers of thick lead glass now. I've only seen one camera that can come close to replacing that direct, stereo vision view, and that's the one the guys at Tech got themselves, which they said was a Panasonic in HD and nothing special - their movies looked really good though. All the cameras I've tried here are not so good -- the auto exposure overexposes the poisser and blooms it out, while still not catching the darker parts of the vew, and your usual webcam just doesn't have the resolution I demand. What's the point of trying to observe a focus improvement from 1/8" to 1/16" inch if the camera blooms it to 1/4" regardless?
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