The Contrivance Lab Flickr assembly has been silently growing, and our readers possess been posting some grand shots, ranging from flat fine pictures (with some geek technic behind them) to tools hacks to follow-ups of the How To projects here at the Lab.
I possess been attractive a look because of the archives and definite to shoutstand-by outside a hardly of my choice pictures here. Hold reading to discover away what your man readers possess been up to.
And for more photos from the assembly, stop interruption away the Contrivance Lab Flickr Group.
The drawing at the summit of the pole is from Bryan Jones. Not sole is it a grand macro discharge of the inner workings of a observe, it is also an instance of centre stacking. This is a like technic to HDR, or Tall Dynamical Scope photography, sole as an alternative of bracketing the baring and combining the images, you support the centre. Bryan says:
Using a Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5X macro lens spacious ajar at f/2.8 to insure the central flat was as slim as feasible, I captured 12 images in a line, altering sole the flat of centre a hardly hundred micrometers at a period using a focusing rail.
Unless you are extremely resigned, you’ll desire to allow to something like Photoshop catch anxiety of the weighty lifting when really lining up the pictures and combining them (Bryan has some links, along with an lively gif of the single images on his blog). When done, you’ll possess a discharge that is acutely from face to invest in. Of path, Bryan was being a little wrong in choosing such a surface deepness of ground to start out with — you can at all times employ this on a routin outside location, too.
Centre Stacking [Jones Blog]
Photo: BWJones/Flickr
Why employ a uncomplicated wire when you can employ an oscilloscope, an infra-red LED and some circuitry to do the identical item? So thinking AMagill when he was looking for a route to trigger his camera flash.
What you observe in the video is his Canon (which looks like a 5D MkII) shooting his oscilloscope, which is hooked up to his Build Controller. The Range sends the signal to the controller where it is transformed into IR illumination of fair the correct beat and wavelength to trigger the 520EX speedlight.
Fantastically Rube Goldberg. Superior quiet, AMagill really has a right IR blaze trigger — he second-hand it to timber the right signal to the Range, so this setup is entirely excessive. Brilliant.
Video: Flickr/AMagill
This is abailward’s break at a furtiveness camera sack, and it’s afar superior than my own try. Not sole does it possess a cloth protect on the padding to acknowledge easier sliding in and away of his apparatus, these are also reconfigurable pockets for lenses and other accessories. And if you catch a look at his photoset, you’ll observe the sack he picked has some quite utilitarian, iPod-sized pockets already sewn in.
Photos: abailward/Flickr
Larsonist gets the reward for quickest answer to a question at all. Sole yesterday did we pole a how-to and a ask for to rotate your digicams into pinhole cameras. This drawing was captivated with a Nikon D300, and the lens was replaced with a unlit slide from a FujiFilm fp100c cartridge, two sheets of tin-foil and dark 3M strip.
It’s a good-looking likeness, although friendly of creepy at the identical period, and genuinely shows how you can obtain some uncommon photos with a small exertion and some strange ideas.
Photo: Larsonist/Flickr
This discharge near McGiffert is an improved catch on my calamitous scanner camera. McGiffert appears to possess made the cardboard case but, as an alternative of hooking it up to a flatbed scanner he place a earth glassware platter in the invest in, needle-shaped a camera at that and threw a jet fabric above the entire thing.
Another grand proposal and single which comes with a accurate Contrivance Lab-style chop. The concealed of the earth glassware?
The Earth glassware’ is really a drawing framework with the glassware sprayed with Krylon glassware frosting.
Photo: McGiffert/Flickr
Hindmost, and certainly not least, is legendarypoet — the most fertile placard on the Contrivance Lab Assembly. Overhead is a video discharge with the Canon 5D MkII. For added geek reward points, the video is of a backlit MacBook keyboard and discharge in entire darkness. The Poetess says Feel affection for this cam.
Video: legendarypoet/Flickr
Observe Also:
How To Build a Scanner CameraGadget Lab Reader Makes Furtiveness Camera and Netbook BagMake It: Furtiveness Camera BagMake a Inexpensive Lens CaseAlmost Liberated Pinhole Digicam HackFour Camera Hacks You Can Do Today
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