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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley Has anyone played with a fiber-optic front-end ahead of the camera? They use these things for medical applications. (Amazing, but uncomfortable from my perspective.) You would probably lose a lot of the advantages of that nice camera, but it would allow you to much more easily get the engineer's side-of-the-boiler view out of big steam. [/quote] The problem with using fiber-optics that I can see is that you would have to remove the lens from the camera and mount it at the beginning of the fiber-optic strand, or you would have almost no viewing angle at all. Secondly, I would expect to loose some of the exposure when using fiber-optics, which is somewhat thin to begin with..
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