MPA
Elite Veteran
Location: Australia
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| Jeez Dave, I give up.
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Are you sure your from the UK ?
Doesnt look like it.
To the point at hand.
See the "Digital eyepiece" thread below.
(in flashing lights)
The issue was resolved before you offered your advice and I assumed you'd read it.
It is pretty clear I am using a 1/4" CCD not a1/3" CCD
Like I wrote, wrong way!!, I'm not using a 1/3" CCD.
I explained in the other thread I assumed you had read, I have removed the plastic lens leaving the two glass lenses and they are as good a quality as the 1/4" cam 3.6mm lens I have.
Both pretty ordinary.
Your advice on supply is fine where it applies and that where you are not where I am, a place you have no concept of but that's a common mistake foregeiners make about Aus, and boy do some of you guys whinge when you get here and realise you cant buy a things you are used to popping down the local shop for, but that's a whole other story and that's life in Aus, you order, you wait, dont second guess the place or what NESS has on hand you'd be wrong.
I cant even buy most heli parts here let alone mini CCD camera parts and that's the half of it Julian.
"will make the pain go away."
You seem to have a blind spot to the fact I already have a lens that works, thanks all the same.
"the very last thing that is likely to be destroyed "
I never said anything about destroyed appart from it needing to be modified but also the fact I can only take your advice that a 6mm will do the job and if it wrong then I have to order it again and wait another week or however long.
At the rate of your advice being that a 3.6mm lens is the same on a 1/4" to a 1/3" CCD Id say you have a bung eye because that conflicts with the lens listing Ive looked at and they make them, they should know.
So I get a 6mm lens on your say so from the other end of the planet ignoring the listing advice of lens makers and find when it finaly arrives you do have a bung eye, ah bugger !
Here we go again and you'd be on my **** list.
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| Bottom line, what beat's me, is if you have all the answers why ask the question in the first place???
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I answered it myself in the other thread thats why I wrote above.
"See the "Digital eyepiece" thread below."
Open your eyes Julian dont be a pedantic git.
I tried to get the info out of the moo at the office but no go, dealers only, see the dealer who is some "sole proprietor" which around here colloqially = we dont have a damn thing I just take calls and orders.
There are 3 sources here on a level you would have as in the stock those items here in Aus.
Jaycar Electronics
Dick Smith Elctronics
Radio Parts.
They import and stock large ranges of goods like this but there is no-one else.
Dick Smith electronics is owned by Woolworths.
These 3 places have provided my entire needs for the helicam from gears to batteries and the AV sender and mini cam etc.
But a stock of CCD lenses they dont have other than 1/3" C or CS mount.
The rest of the companies who deal in this kind of thing and small parts are all to order, you order and pay then you wait however long and from overseas it can be days or months, often they cant tell you how long.
We have to choose wisely before ordering goods they are not close by.
Even if I had to order the lens from interstate, that is still 1500 miles away from where I am in Sydney or 3000 miles in Brisbane.
It can take days to get parts from interstate even by air.
Why you up Nth cant fathom or comprehend this I dont know, you seem to think I am being difficult but you just dont get the picture and refuse to accept any reasoning.
Fine for you who can nick down the road and get another till you have it right, we cant OK, just accept that even if you cant understand it.
Kim in the other thread in New Zealand.
He has Jaycar and a few other smaller independants but thats about it and is in the same boat for parts he may have to order from overseas and will have to choose wisely.
Or use something locally available which is easier in most cases and something we down here in the Sth end of the planet are quite adept at as it was required by all our descendants to survive down here with only what they had close by, something you up Nth have never had to endure a life of so just take my word for it.
Ordering is not an easy option, there isnt anything available locally.
There is vast amounts of land, there is naff all people.
Bugger all customers to sell to, the few here are a great distance between each other, no-one to pay for full time helicam work, or stock specialty items and one offs.
As I said a concept you up there have no idea of, so much so that when tourists come here they wander off thinking Aus is not so large because there are so few people here, they get lost never to be seen again.
You could never imagine wandering off or getting lost anywhere in your country and walking for weeks and never seeing another person until you die of thirst or hunger.
Surely you would come across a highway or a house or some person.
Most places in Aus not in a capitol city here you can walk for 3 weeks and drop dead and you wont see house, person, (livestock of your lucky) or a road.
Nothing mate, "the never never" is what the Aboriginals call it.
We have places where it is so remote they dont bother having a speed limit on the roads.
Next time you decide to tell me what I can and cant get here in Aus you might grab an Atlas first and have a look.
There are a small number of capitol cities, (countable on one hand) and there is nothing in between them.
Rural towns with nothing in the local stores on a popular stretch of road a 1000 miles or more to the next capitol city..
To look around me and think I live in some modern industrialised landscape with vendors a plenty is laughable.
Traggically laughable.
And if its not enough we have to endure the tyranny of distance we all know well down here I have to deal with you and some xenophobes making wise arse cracks like it aint so and Im just making it all up and we should have all that you can get in the UK or USA and should have the markets you have in the UK or USA.
I wish we had consumer choice and supply you had, I wish we had the population and markets here that you have to trade with.
You lucky ****s.
But no respect from you lot up Nth to the fact this causes us immense frustration in the isolation from consumer goods and markets convienient to you, you lot rub the salt in and tell me it is a figment of my imagination.
And Im supposed to be pleased about it, dont expect me to be in this lifetime. |
i.e. the one in front of all the C / CS lenses. I'm unsure how to gain additional benefit from the analysis. I got all my little optional lenses etc from 
