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Subject:Re: 130 mph in a vanagon
From:Don Spence
Date:Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:20:51 -0700

Uh Kim,  note the  "  : > " at the end of my comment.
On Monday, December 6, 2004, at 05:30  PM, Automatic digest processor
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> Date:    Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:24:08 -0500
> From:    Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
> Subject: Re: 130 mph in a vanagon
>
> At 120mph (just a little slower) you are doing a mile every 30 seconds.
> That means the 1/10 digit should rotate 1 digit every 3 seconds. The
> shutter speed on most digital cameras is  less than 1 second. That is
> sufficiently fast so that the digit wouldn't be blurred.
>
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> On Dec 6, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Don Spence wrote:
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>> Yeh... and another thing. At that speed, that last odometer digit to
>> the right would be spinning so fast it would be blurred. : >