[LargeFormat] Air Power

[Brock Nanson]

Don't you use compressed air to lift those skirts in the studio?? ;-)

Brock

On Sat, 24 May 2003, rstein wrote:

> Dear Friends,
> 
>      And for those of you that remember the television programs of the
> 1950's that should have jolted a memory...
> 
>     I wasn't jolted, but jiggled slightly, when I read a history of the
> construction company my father worked for. It mentioned a number of the
> devices he devised to do rock drilling or railway maintenance and commented
> on how they mostly operated on compressed air. I reflected that it might
> have been a genetic trait that lead me to chose air power and control
> equipment for my surgery rather than electric versions.
> 
>      Of course, it may also have been the fact that when you get an air leak
> you can find it and plug it - electricity is invisible. I think the reason
> my dad liked air power was Ingersoll Rand kept making bigger and bigger air
> compressors. You can do a great deal with 2000psi air....
> 
>     AH, but here is the point of the post. Do we do it in photography? I can
> count only three uses for compressed air in this sport - canned air to shift
> dirt around the surface of negatives, air releases for long distance
> shooting and air pots in compound shutters to regulate speed. Can anyone
> enumerate others? Is there an air powered belt-fed reciprocating enlarger on
> an azimuth mount somewhere?
> 
>     Uncle Dick