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Take a look at the Cinemeter 2...it not only does sun locations, but
helps with F stops and a bunch of other stuff.
Jennie
On Thu, 10 Nov 1994 [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> I'm an advertising photographer working in the Washington, DC area. in 1985 I
> came up with a concept for a piece of software that I would find useful to my
> work. On many occasions I had been left to scramble or left "high and dry"
> by the sun not being or going to the location I needed it to be for the photo
> that was needed.
>
> Three years ago, with nothing found on the market, I set about creating it
> myself. It is called "SunWhere"(tm). What it does, simply put, is this:
> select the name of the place your interested in, and the date; the software
> draws a map of the sun from the time it rises till it sets. You will know
> the direction of your location "light sorce" for the entire day. Weather it
> is a morning shoot or evening shoot. I'm nearly finnished with the product
> and would like to get some feedback. I would like to know your reactions to
> the usefullness this might have for you.
>
> Concurrent with my publishing this software I will be publishing a similar
> application that does the same for the moon and draws the shape of the moon,
> on that date, at that place.
>
> E-mail any reactions you might have to "Ex 213" Thanks!
>
> P.S. Subsequent to my starting this project there has been several other
> similar products introduced.
> These all require you to know the:
> -latitude of the place
> -longitude of the place
> -the magnetic declination of the place
> -the # of hours from Greenwich Mean Time for the place
> -the observance of Daylight Savings Time for the place
>
> I'm pleased to know, with all the time, work and money I've invested, that my
> software is unique in that the user needs to only know the name of the place
> and the date.
>
> Tentative publication date is January 1, 1995. Initially the data base covers
> the 50 states of the United States. Other locations can be manually imputed.
>
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