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This short clip is a test of an AGUS35 APVE, a 35mm groundglass based image relay device for small format video camera-recorders.

Shutter was set at 1/2500th sec.
Camcorder iris was wide open.
Video gain was 0db.
White balance had not been checked since a gig two nights ago indoors in mixed source lighting.
The SLR lens was a Sigma f1.8 with iris set to f5.6 to provoke artifacts.
Camcorder ND filter was selected off.

There are artifacts visible. They derive from the grubby state of the groundglass disk.

This adaptor remains a work in progress with drilling, cutting and trimming still going on.
There are a few pinhead bits if wax still on the clear and groundglass faces plus bits of dirt and plastic swarf which in normal operating conditions do not show up in the image.

Actual "freezing" of the groundglass texture does not occur but in the first sky image there is some texture becoming apparent in the top (inner) groundglass area where the surfce speed is slower.

The disk diameter is the same as a CD-R disk. The internal hole diameter is also identical to the CD-R disk. Front to rear thickness before dressing is 1.3mm after dressing it is 0.9mm.

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