Re: Nimslo Shocker

[P3D bob wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 1:33 PM 11/20/96, P3D Eric Drysdale wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Perhaps it's a Themelized Negative Reinforcement Nimslo. ;-[
> 
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I'd suspect that you have a short in the flash unit between the high
voltage circuit (1000+ volts to fire the tube - high voltage, short
duration pulses) and the shoe. Rare - but it does happen (I got myself
pretty good one time with a flash unit which used a 500 volt BATTERY
to give fast flash cycle times (any of you old guys remember the 
Auto - Strobonar?))

Let use know if the Nims is still working - considering integrated
circuits are involved which tend to go bad at anything over 5 volts,
it's probably gone. But you might get lucky!

Ah yes, preliminary report on the Nimstech processing - I sent in 3
rolls in the same envelope about a month ago. I got one of them
back in about 3 weeks which look pretty reasonable (except I forgot
to hold the camera level - duh - I *know* to to this with my Realist, 
but I forgot when using the Nims - I tend to take TWO pictures of
everything with my regular 35mm camera - one in horizontal and one
in vertical format since I end up scanning a lot of them in, and
normally one orientation will work out better than the other). 

To their credit, they did make a valient attempt at handling the
situation as best they could - they printed the lenticulars in the
VERTICAL format since those were the majority of the photos - of course
the horizontal ones are off because you have to rotate them sideways to
get any stereo effect.

The bad thing is that I've seen nothing of the other two rolls (which
means that the photos I've gotten back, between my format problem and
the missing two rolls, have run me about $5 (US) each...)

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