BigBusa Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 The tube glow is truly something to behold! I can never get my lense to see what my eye sees though. What's the secret to tube shots? Lets see your attempts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 long slow exsposures on a tripod with fast Fuji film... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 If anyone here might want one of the above recievers. I have one in great shape I need to rebuild and sell. Just shoot me a email . There really are a great reciever they do it all well CD's , LP's and FM Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 sure Craig, could you post a nightime picture with the tubes glowing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBusa Posted December 4, 2003 Author Share Posted December 4, 2003 I agree with craig. They are a nice sounding piece when restored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 I didn't say it works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Yep. Tubes are magic allright and you can see them all year round. Fireplace glow is just for cold weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Oh hell, these are vintage radio tubes from my home-made shortwave receiver my dad built me last year, but it's dark, and they're glowin', and you get my drift... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piranha Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 I can't wait to see my 299D tubes glowing once I get it back from Craig at NOSValves. If everything goes right it will truly be a Merry Christmas at my home this year. And the neighbors, like it or not, will ring in the New Year in style with my Corns a blarin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOSValves Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Piranha What is your real name? Man it can be confusing when you have know people here and through email with a different handle and also by there real name. Craig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Been Offline,was bored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheltie dave Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Mike, were you successful Thursday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 I guess somebody else wanted it more. I thought I overbid at Eighty bucks as it was. Oh well.... I kinda looked around for vintage audio today, nothing of course. A couple vintage tube TV's, yay. Though the Packard Bell (or Bell Packard?) TV did have a Stereo AM/FM tube receiver with a turntable. It was only 19 bucks, and the place won't put the stuff on the floor unless it works, or kinda works I guess. Though I can check it at the store. I could get cute and gut the TV for the AM/FM stereo receiver, it looked pretty decent. Then I don't know if the receiver has the power amp built in to it, or is external, or built in with the television circuit, or if some components are SS. It appears to be a tube unit, the receiver does have a tuning eye and the TV looks to be around the right era. I may have to go back and check further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheltie dave Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 That mother weighs close to 200 pounds, if it is the one I eyeballed. I spent the day at the other end of the audio universe. Flips had a $28K seperates system from Mark Levinson I listened to for half an hour. I moseyed over to the upscale HT place and listened to some Krell equipment, and loved the aesthetics of these huge thick speaker cables with some old Hoover doodle sweeper silver things, bout a foot.5 long, in line. It was too esoteric for me, so I wandered home and listened to my cheap cheap browbeaten Klipsch using the $20 Nakamichi CD player I got UPS from Spokane. It was quite distracting, listening in the 40K, 60K, and 100K sound rooms and not hearing better systems. The furniture was far better than our basement; the sound was far short. And nary a beautiful tube heading for the stars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheltie dave Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Don, when stalking that elusive beast, approach from downwind(ie, the backside.) When the tubes are the brightest objects in your shoot field, you exposure balance will be better. A good macro shot is generally easier, also. If all else fails, just yank a tube out and firmly ground your finger in the socket. After you complete the 60 cycle shuffle, you might not ever get a good photo, but your cares will melt away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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