Re: Lego Pan Camera!

[Simon Nathan <simonwide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dear richard- i have read with your interest in lego and
architecture. rather than bore the list with typographiccal infraction,
but there was an installation of a whole lego city in main lobby of national
press club bldg about ten years back. it operated. it was over 100 feet
long (memory) and dramatic. local architect did this. want his name and
email offline? simon nathan  i did hundreds of photos and he has the
transp (oops, trannies).simon     some simon/wides

Richard Schneider wrote:

I was at Quebec and saw the Lego camera. I was quite struck with the ingenuity! I have also seen in the past special "architectural" Legos that were smaller and seemingly finer in their manufacture. I believe they were used to create professional-looking building models. These were not kids toys. Is anyone out there familiar with these, or where you might obtain them?

Richard

>>> Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx> 11/28/99 06:58PM >>>
On 27 Nov 99 at 14:27, George S. Pearl wrote:

> Hey Ron ,
>    Sorry you missed the Quebec IAPP convention...we had a fellow there
> that
> actually made a panorama camera out of all Lego block toy parts. The
> only thing
> that wasn't Lego was the lens and the body of the camera. He said that
> more
> people should be using Lego gears and motors since they are very
> accurate.

I once made an X-Y-axis positioning device from Lego, to move
slides under a large magnifying copy stand....:-))
Getting the stiction out of the system was the hardest part....grease
didn't seem the best solution....8-))

--
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink

      The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand

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