Holography 'Camera' - My Latest Addition
Hi folks
I've just picked up a nice little addition to my collection , it's a Holofax Holocam, basically an easy way to make simple single beam reflection holograms.
It had been in storage since the mid-eighties and was suffering from having years of dust on the internal optics. However, after a bit of a clean down it appears to be a very nice little unit. The HeNe laser works and the optics were nearly in alignment, I guess the laser is putting out around the 5mW as is shown on the data sheet for this model. If anyone has an instruction manual for this unit i'd be most grateful.
I've not made any holograms with it yet, so i'm not sure how easy that will be, but all the signs are that this should be a great little unit for easily demonstrating how to make holograms.
Whilst I was collecting this unit I also managed to strike a deal on some 'Light Fantastic' holograms that the seller had used for exhibition purposes. These initially appeared to be in a pretty poor state, however, once I got them home and stripped them out of the frame mountings they seem to be cleaning up pretty well. I'll try to get some photo's up once i've got them all cleaned and re-framed.
Cheers
Jem
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