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Am I the only one thinking lasers+discoball = eye damage?
Dhary Montecore:
As a word of caution to this: There will be NO access to the balcony above the main stage at any time while the laser system is armed. The only exception there would be stage technicians.
Last year we had to get a few attendees down from there that where taking photos with DSLRs straight into the lasers. Yeah, please don't be that stupid! ;3
sneeuwvos:
Ironically, they also repair bad eye sights with lasers :)
djem:
--- Quote from: Dhary Montecore on 01.02.2016, 19:40:01 ---As a word of caution to this: There will be NO access to the balcony above the main stage at any time while the laser system is armed. The only exception there would be stage technicians.
Last year we had to get a few attendees down from there that where taking photos with DSLRs straight into the lasers. Yeah, please don't be that stupid! ;3
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Thank for taking care of that.
Last year I even caught hotel staff taking a break there and just watching :) It's not dangerous, but better play safe.
And no good place to take picture or movies :
sneeuwvos:
;_; I missed your session this year about the Laser Safety, I was attending another important session at EF22.
Just wanted to say; The lasers looked a lot better than previous year, and I saw no pointing at the disco ball either anymore :) Keep up the good work.
Fineas:
--- Quote from: sneeuwvos on 28.08.2016, 19:28:53 ---;_; I missed your session this year about the Laser Safety, I was attending another important session at EF22.
Just wanted to say; The lasers looked a lot better than previous year, and I saw no pointing at the disco ball either anymore :) Keep up the good work.
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No, me neither, however I was surprised by some 'stray lights' that bounced from (at least one) of the scanners.
I was surprised that it even found an angle as both the lasers and these move rather quickly.
And it had to be angled half way the stage and partly downward to reflect the lasers.
I had followed them for a while out of curiosity, and saw it happen a couple of times more but arcing them above head level and more toward the ceiling.
I post this as an observation, as an observer I just thought it looked cool.