Hello Fellas, I can already anticipate where most of y'all will fall on this discussion, but I searched for a brand name on this site and found nothing, so I thought why not spark up a discussion on the subject?
I've always been a fan of scanning lasers, used at events and concerts. They can...
Some of you may have seen this, but here's an interesting video showing someone at a music festival pointing a presumably lowish powered laser at a police helicopter.
YouTube - Green laser pointer shone at police helicopter
I finally received my G1. They actually shipped it to me back in mid-August however my address had changed and the post office mailed it back. They quickly mailed it to my new address (at no extra fee) and I picked it up today.
My initial thoughts are good. The build quality seem pretty high, I...
Well if you don't want red or green you've got few remaining options. You can buy a 405nm laser for fairly cheap, and those are cool since they make UV reactive materials fluoresce, but purple is a very difficult color for your eye to see, and so it is difficult to see a beam without the aid of...
This is the beam on the floor (time lapse)
And this is just the floor glowing (I pressed the host to the tile, you can see a little laser light leakage but the letters are the floor glowing not the laser)
I can make my tile floor fluoresce with a 405nm laser. I couldn't think of a way to photograph it without the camera just capturing the laser itself, then I realized I could simply put the end of the host directly on the floor and you don't see the laser at all, just the effects. I'll post some...
The floor tiles in my house are UV-reactive so when it's dark I can "draw" on them with my 405nm laser and they continue to glow for a second or two afterwords, it's really cool.
Less than $10 shipped for an overspeced 405nm laser? Sign me up! You should ask this guy for some kick back, or free stuff or something, all the advertising you're giving him!
Check this out. A guy was filming a concert with a dSLR when the scanning laser directly hit the camera's sensative sensor frying a part of the chip. Make sure this doesn't happen to you! I wonder how many mW that laser is pumping out.
Laser Light Show Burns a DSLR Sensor