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Re: Photos taken inside musical instruments

#7
A little game for all of you: On Firefox or Chrome, go to Developer Tools (F12) > Console and execute:

  document.querySelectorAll('p').forEach(e => e.style.opacity = 0)
Now without the text visible anymore, try and guess which musical instrument each picture represents. Then reload the page, enjoy the article, and check how many you got right. What's your score out of 8? I scored 5.

Re: Photos taken inside musical instruments

#9
I wonder if he would have been better off making a device to hold a small mirror steady and used a telephoto lens pointed at it from one of the f holes.

It says he had a 5 mm hole to work with. That would pass an 8 gauge wire with plenty of room to maneuver. Mount a mirror to the end, thread a two or three foot wire through the hole from the inside out, clamp it to a surface the instrument is sitting in to keep it from moving, and set up your camera from a low angle and the light positioned to not cast a shadow.

Alternately you could J hook a long, large diameter scope, and composite two shots with the cable visible on opposite sides of each picture.

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