The Equipment of the Team Delphinus

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  The developments of the photographic and video techniques is always been a very important part within the Delphinus team. In the 1980's the camera battery's that were being deploy were old Praktica and Centaur SLR. camera's that were relatively very cheap to buy.
  Delphinus always wanted the best picture quality and they used Hellios 55 mm lenses that were very good optics
  
  From 1983 more and more Canon SLR. body were deploy whit there very good 50mm 1,8 Canon FD optics. First AE-1 and AV-1 whit winders were deploy but whit the coming of the Canon T70 body gradual the AE-1 and AV-1 where replaced because there were sometimes problems whit the winders or the shutter release.

  
  

  Whit the coming of the Canon T70, meteor photography advanced into the best camera battery system ever build. And the basics of the systems of 1983 are till today very successfully in use by the Delphinus team.
  

  Because of the more and more successful crash campaigns, there was a need to go further and faster; traveling great distances to gather a successful observation under clear weather conditions. But because of the weight and size of the Photographic camera arrays it was necessary to travel by large van
  
  During the Leonids crash campaign of 1996 the idea of two portable photographic stations that can set up within minutes came up and in august 1997 the thirst of the new fast portable camera batterys "The Canon T70-50mm project" (that contains 11x T70 and 50mm FD 1,8 optics) was used in the Perseids campaign

  "The Canon T70-50mm project"
  

  After it successfully deployment there was a need to go futher and a "Canon T70 -85 mm project"( that contains 6 Canon T70 and the perfect Canon FD 85mm 1,8 optics for a even higher resolution) was made.This was first deployed at the Lyrids 1998 verry successfully.

  After that; Robert and Casper were "really getting busy" and build in a record time of 3 months two more 50mm and 85 mm projects !!!

  Now two station Photography was possible within the team Delphinus!
  

  The two fully operational porable stations (Whit four camera battery' s) saw first light at the Draconids 1998 And whit there new Laser-cut six and eight blades sectors were used in the Leonids fireball outburst in China on the Delinga and Ulan stations

  In 2001 one more Canon T70-50mm project was build by Jos Nijland for the use in three station Photography.On the Sino Dutch Leonid Expedition 2001 all tree stations will be photographing the leonids meteorstorm from China

  "The digital image intesefiere video system project"
  DIGITAL VIDEO SYSTEMS
  During the 2001 Expedition Robert build three digital video image intensifiers systems based on a Mullard 3e generation tube XX 1332. These intensifiers have a ferry huge entry of 36 mm and were first used by Klaas Jobse from the DMS in 1997 and in 1998 by Peter Jenniskens NASA/DMS
  With the help of Rijfers Metal these systems were build in a record breaking time of 3 DAYS and the systems will see first light in China on the Sino Dutch Leonid Expedition 2001
  TV Stations are using the dv signal from this systems to give a live broadcast on 18 November 2001 on the Leonid Meteorstorm