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Re: (meteorobs) Murphy's Law - Leonids 2001
Subject: (meteorobs) Murphy's Law - Leonids 2001
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> Chris Crawford recently wrote of how Murphy hit him. I'm sure many others
> have stories about Murphy's Law striking at the worse possible, or nearly
> the worse possible time.
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That fink "Murphy" paid me a visit also! I had set up a recently
acquired Hasselblad which I was going to use for film spectroscopy. The
lens was set at infinity and full aperture, or at least I thought it was.
The lens has indexed f-stops, and when I set it to f-2.8, it was slightly
off, and did not set as it should. In this condition, when you fire the
shutter in the "b" position, it does not stay open with the normal locking
shutter release but just opens and immediately closes. The camera operates
in a normal fashion, so you don't know anything is wrong! The shutter is
closed so no time exposure is being made. It was a real shock to see
nothing recorded on the film when it was developed. GOOD thing my Image
Intensified video system worked, recording 110 meteors with it. The night
was not wasted!
Ed Majden
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