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Re: Doug Royer's Artificial Horizon
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Feb 25, 14:28 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Feb 25, 14:28 -0500
I use mirrored Plexiglas in the photo studio and on location as reflectors. Based on my experience it is pretty flexible stuff, and a piece one foot x one foot is more like a fun house mirror. Perhaps with no stress on it in a much smaller size, it MAY work, but I would go with mirrored glass if possible for the rigidity. Bill > Doug, > > I haven't yet made one of the plexiglas artificial horizons you designed, but > expect to. Any advice or experience you could pass along would be > appreciated. One thing I'm concerned about is the problem of a base. How do > you manage > this? Another is that, with adjusting screws in the reflecting surface itself, > I'm afraid I'd jiggle the horizon every time I touched one of the adjusting > screws. Is this as much of a problem as I suppose? > > Bruce >