Actually, I have tried to take pictures with an endoscope: In the beginning of the eighties - the days of the great LX - the Pentax importer in Denmark (now known as Fovitech) lend me a Pentax endoscope. It's a tube / hose with lenses in it. I mounted on a video camera in order to shoot a film. As a part of my job I had made an architectural model of a part of at new town. We needed to show the politicians what a walk in the streets of the new town would look like. So, we needed the endoscope to get the shots from a low point of view, that would be realistic - resemble a film shot from eye level in the small (table size) model town.
The movie turned out very well (although the images had a circular shape, not rectangular). Pentax wanted to help me do this, because they wanted to explore new ways of using an endocsope for other things than photographing the inside of a human stomach or whatever stuff like that. If they ever did develop this use further, I don't know. Today all this is really obsolete, since we now make virtual CAD "models" and computer-movies for similar purposes. Regards Jens http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af mike wilson Sendt: 26. december 2006 19:57 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: RE: Hoya - Pentax Merger - Sad News > > From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/12/26 Tue AM 11:26:07 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: RE: Hoya - Pentax Merger - Sad News > > Mark wrote: > >The K10D may just be the swan-song of Pentax management - one last flash > >before they are gone. > > Then I better get one while they're still available :-) > That will keep me going (with my current excellent glass collection) for > another 3-4 years. > No seriously: > > Why would teh joined forces with HOYA mean stopping the camera production? > > Hoya is - like Pentax - an important player in the glass business. Joining > management forces just means strengthining their role in the market place - > as glass manufactureres and imaging developeres. > > I also guess that the camera industry has a role promoting all other glass > products (like endoscopes and other medical equipment, spectacles, > car-windows, CD/DVD readers etc.). I also believe the camera section might > be profitable - or at least profitable enough to develop further. Not much glass in an endoscope - I hope. "I,m sorry, I can't quite make the problem out. Time for some fast glass. Nurse! The 85 1.4, please. And some smelling salts for the patient." > > > This is why (from the Hoya webside): Read this > http://www.hoya.co.jp/data/current/newsobj-368-pdf.pdf > > > Regards > > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.27/602 - Release Date: 12/25/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.16.0/609 - Release Date: 12/29/2006 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
