Novembers AI

Arcto

Just wondering does anybody know what the flashlight looking "thing" is on the bottom rail of the m4(?) on the cover shot of novembers Airsoft International?

It looks like a flashlight full of string......(lay off the drugs, arcto)

Masada

havent seen it., but maybe its one of them nets ya see i the films like beverly hills cop.,lol

Gatling

it is a flash light ,il post a link later to the site that sells them

bullets

Looked at two easons in Dublin and the one in Limerick
all sold out in all three places. Hard magazine to get locally.

~B

Arcto

Gatling wrote: »

it is a flash light ,il post a link later to the site that sells them

Really? weird.....probably the camera just screwed up taking the shot..meh! Thanks

Gatling

there designed for cave and underground work rather than a narrow beam it floods an area with light, as for the pic me thinks its the glass in the lamp ,rather than a camera effect

NakedDex

It's not an affect, it's very simply just been coloured in with a marker. Scribble along some glass/perspex with a black marker and you'll get that same lined effect. It's to stop glare and over exposure when taking the picture I'd presume as it serves no practical use besides dulling the light output

NORTH1

bullets wrote: »

Looked at two easons in Dublin and the one in Limerick
all sold out in all three places. Hard magazine to get locally.

~B

Boarders in Blanchardstown has two copies left.

Brian

Masada

NakedDex wrote: »

It's not an affect, it's very simply just been coloured in with a marker. Scribble along some glass/perspex with a black marker and you'll get that same lined effect. It's to stop glare and over exposure when taking the picture I'd presume as it serves no practical use besides dulling the light output

I havent seen this pic but i would doubt it would have anything to do with taking the photograph, the photogragher has full control of stuff like shutter speed/aperture/white balance/ISO etc and would adjust the camera to suit the conditions, there many ways around it, like taking a few shots with some underexposed/right exposure/and over exposed and then merge the pics.,:)

NakedDex

I know but the shot is facing straight on into the torch lens, and the torch is turned on. There isn't a huge amount you can do when shooting at a light other than darken it or block it out. I'll see if I can dig out the picture

Edit: Found it after 10 second search.

Arcto

So who blured it out then? The player or the camera dude using a computer programe? And why didnt they just turn it off?

NakedDex

Looking close at the paper mag cover it looks like a thin tip marker job rather than a PS brush. It's too even around the edges to be anything computer generated. Unless the guy was seriously seriously tricky with a drawing tablet

Masada

hmm, cant say ive seen anything like that before, and especially as a photography solution., it almost looks like tin foil pushed into the torch lens.,

NakedDex

The scan doesn't do it justice. I've seen it done once on a torch that was too strong a beam for use at night without compromise on other issues. It wasn't for photographic reasons though.

Puding

My money was on the star battery light thing http://www.starairsoft.com/product_detail.php?productid=67# they do, as the flip cover you can get from surefire for the lights only come in colored (e.g red blue) filter or a plain black cover never seen a clear front lens on one of them, but no idea.

Gatling

but the idea is based on a torch being used in iraq and afghanistan

NakedDex

It most likely is that unit, I'm just saying that it looks as though they scribbled on one of the clear filters with a black marker to dim/dull it when turned on for whatever reason.

hoplite

Puding wrote: »

My money was on the star battery light thing http://www.starairsoft.com/product_detail.php?productid=67# they do, as the flip cover you can get from surefire for the lights only come in colored (e.g red blue) filter or a plain black cover never seen a clear front lens on one of them, but no idea.

That would look better then a PEQ box on a HK416 IMHO

Puding

but the idea is based on a torch being used in iraq and afghanistan

Good point but considering mosty airsoft is played in conditions where a torch is useless or would more likely to give your position away i don;t see it as to much of a problems.

Well my money would be on the star battery as you can not see a peq or crane stock (another copy of AI had almost the same picture i think it was the 'so you want to be a seal' edition and you can clearly see the crane stock this one is even more square on to the camera, he could always be useing a li-op in the stock tube or just simple have removed the battery for the photo) from the picture on the star site it has a very reflective front for some reason maybe that made a reflection on the day or was dulled down by the person to stop it reflecting when playing.

It is strange, that area it has no depth at all if they edited in the light room then its very sloppy.

Edit: looking at it more im convinced that it has been coloured in with marker on the unit itself, if you look at the pic in the bottem south east of the lamp head you see the edge is the same kind of patten you would expect to see when you where a kid and you used a stencel or somthing and filled in the space with pen fast you get a very hard edge when the pen comes in contact with the edge of the frame (sorry very bored at work :P )

ED E

Easons O'connel street have them least they did last saturdy, sorry, the sat before now, its monday. Need sleep.

Masada

Easons in O COnnell street is my nearest one and they never seem to have it.,

Mweelrea

any chance my local easons in cork city will have it?? never knew airsoft had a magazine!

Hunter1100

Mweelrea wrote: »

any chance my local easons in cork city will have it?? never knew airsoft had a magazine!

I never have a problem getting it in the Cork easons

Gatling

if anyone is intrested ,when next months AI comes out i can pick up a few copies then you can pay me at HRTA