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( HappyToast http://happytoastsblog.blogspot.com/, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:09, archived)

*moons*
edit : in other news, i've just found an "arca swiss" ball-type tripod my dad has owned for years - yay for expensive camera equipment! he paid £15 for it about 8 years ago! Works very well with my 500mm lens :D
edit 2 :
50mm
500mm
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:11, archived)

is there a b3tan group on flickr?
i know there are a ton of us as members - would you like to collect together?
( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:32, archived)

if not why not?
i know theres a "b3ta bash" group but as i've never been...
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:37, archived)

I can't find any pictures of my ball mount on the internet...
they all appear to be the much smaller version of what I've got, it came in a humongous wooden box which weighs 10 times the weight of the tripod!
If i scribble some serial numbers down, can anyone find them on the interwebs? anyone know anything about arca swiss? I can't find diddly squat about the numbers i got!
here it is


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theres some other bits to do with bellows or something
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:42, archived)

Whats the serial number?
I'll be going past my local camera shop in a while if you want me to pop in and find out about it? What do you wanna know?
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! did not kill Michael Jackson. LOL!, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:47, archived)

i'll go get em now
basically i wanna know
a)^i. what it is
a)^ii. what it does
b) how old it is
c) have you got any cake?
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:50, archived)

....
a)i. I will see what they know
a)ii. I will see what they know
b) I will see what they know
c) No I dont, but sainsburys do
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! did not kill Michael Jackson. LOL!, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:51, archived)

:D
Yay
Thank you kind Sir - I owe you 1 x cake
Reading from the big wooden box
on the box in black writing it has
"s3s 13487000"
and on a little plaque on the box it reads
"contens
s3s. 12326001
s3s. 12326005
s3s. 15251000"
The items have these serial numbers stamped on them too, and some dimwit has engraved the same thing on there too!
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:56, archived)

OK.
I assume that there is no sign of a model number on it rather than simply a serial? Like a B2 QR or something?
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! did not kill Michael Jackson. LOL!, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:59, archived)

Thats it
took me ages to notice the "ARCA swiss" logo on it! been searching the internet for those numbers and nothing been coming up!
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 11:01, archived)

Thanks again kind sir!
brb later, i'm off to photograph some forts!
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 11:02, archived)

No worries.
By the looks of things, it is probably an older model of this www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Arca-Swiss-Monoball-B1-Ballhead-Review.aspx

But I will see what they say.
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! did not kill Michael Jackson. LOL!, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 11:06, archived)

i'll look to do so tomorrow, or thereabouts.

( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:42, archived)

There are a few here:
www.flickr.com/search/groups/?w=all&q=b3ta&m=names

One for bash pics and one for general stuff I think :)
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! did not kill Michael Jackson. LOL!, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:42, archived)

'ning.
that counter-rotation has my eyes doing screams.
( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:11, archived)

?
you want it going the other way?
ah, actually I can't do that, I just deleted the files :D
Hold on, what am I talking about, I'll just flip the frames...
( HappyToast http://happytoastsblog.blogspot.com/, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:13, archived)

tada!

( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:15, archived)

hahah, no, I meant re-order the frames backwards

( HappyToast http://happytoastsblog.blogspot.com/, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:17, archived)

( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:18, archived)

whats wrong with the time?
i'm sure it says 6:66 ?
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:24, archived)

heh, that was my old sig.
i used to type in slightly the wrong day and/or time as my sig in hopes some people would get screwed up for a moment. then i set the time as 6:66 for a while - forgotten about that until you just pointed it out.
( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:28, archived)

my dad used to put the 32nd day for every month on all of his log sheets for work
no one ever said anything...
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:31, archived)

i am your father.
*peels off mask*
( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:33, archived)

d...d...Dad?
wheres my breakfast?
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:37, archived)

i want everything!
my eyes may be tired, but it looks like the rotation starts going in one direction and then in the other, bot for the northern hemisphere and for the south, but at slightly different times. i'm guessing it's because of the glare effect you used, but it's freaking my eyes right out.
( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:15, archived)

ah, no it's just the far side seen through the holes
I've flipped it anyway in case it helps ;)
( HappyToast http://happytoastsblog.blogspot.com/, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:17, archived)

now mine just looks silly
damn dirty editor :p
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:17, archived)

christ on a cross, i had no idea that's what it was (obviously not a star wars person).
thanks, i see it now.
( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:19, archived)

It's fine over here
must be the coreolis effect.
( gronkpan, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:29, archived)

more likely the buttrape effect.
ok, bedtime for sure now. see you all later.
( postbear is creepy and old and gross, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:34, archived)

*waves*
Cya
( Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:38, archived)

Hah Christ, I can see that happening too.
Great animating, as usual.
( ClanSoul, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:12, archived)

'ning toats
i dont really get it though :(
( mr spoons, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:12, archived)

Flux capacitor, back to the future, time travel and all that
the Death Star is just a future replacement to the incomplete spherical jigsaw logo
( HappyToast http://happytoastsblog.blogspot.com/, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:14, archived)

aha!
it's a sci-fi reference wiki-omelette.
simple really :)
( mr spoons, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:15, archived)

Bah-dum Tisssh!

( Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:15, archived)

Heh heh heh.

(_Felix Objectivism: also available in socialist, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:28, archived)

( finnbar it's not important now, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:38, archived)

ha!
hi cockalorum
( mr spoons, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:45, archived)

hahahaha
that's awesome. Smiling vader is worrying O_O

Anyway, I'm off on holiday for a week now, so I may not see you guys until next monday. Tara all!
( hexachordal Is still alive, but probably uninterested, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:46, archived)

Have fun young man!
Where are you off to?
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! did not kill Michael Jackson. LOL!, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:48, archived)

Have fun Cunt!

( Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:52, archived)

this! /\
cunt!
( SkUG Loves his Lady :D, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:57, archived)

Pfft
That's rather good that.
(Livi70590 Master of Lurkage., Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:57, archived)

What a marvel to wake up to!
Woo there
( Jahled -¦ overworked ¦-, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:58, archived)