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January 31, 2023February 1, 2023Other Stuff, Projects

Improving the Slide Digitizing Experience

Back in 2020, during the first UK lockdown, I put together a slide digitizing rig. At the time I had to use materials I already had around the house as […]

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January 17, 2023January 18, 2023Background

Time for some Scavenging

Well it’s January – traditionally the month where everyone’s feeling a bit poor. So my first post of the year is about how to to replenish the parts bin without […]

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December 16, 2022December 22, 20223D Printing, Background

How to Add a Webcam to OctoPrint

In my last post I covered getting OctoPi/OctoPrint installed and configured on a Raspberry Pi to provide remote control and monitoring of my 3D printer. The next step is to […]

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December 12, 2022December 15, 20223D Printing, Background

Improving the 3D Print Process

Straight out of the box 3D print process for my Ender 5 Pro (along with many other printers) is to select and print a gcode file from the printer’s micro-SD […]

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November 30, 2022December 1, 2022Lenses, Projects

The Not Very Big Stopper: a DIY rear-mount ND1000 filter

You have to be careful what you write! At the end of my last post I made a throw away comment that a fixed ND filter for my flare adapter […]

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November 14, 2022November 18, 2022Lenses, Projects

DIY Rear Mount Flare Adapter

I’ve recently spent a chunk of time cleaning up and shooting with my growing collection of Helios 44 lenses. As a Canon shooter, one potentially nasty issue with these lenses […]

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October 21, 2022November 9, 2022Background, Lenses

Lens Mounts: A Reference for Using Adapters

As a long-term experimenter with old lenses on my Canon DSLRs it’s important to know which lens mounts can be adapted to work with the Canon EF system. The mount […]

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October 8, 2022December 30, 2022Other Stuff

Fun with 44’s: The Legendary Helios 44 Lens

Possibly the most famous lens to be be produced in the former Soviet Union was the Helios 44. This was a copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm f2 lens […]

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September 20, 2022October 28, 2022Background, Microcontrollers

Making Sense of the Nokia 5110 Display

When I built the photogate camera trigger unit I used the cheap and cheerful Nokia 5110 display. During development and prototyping I worked with a couple of these display modules […]

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August 24, 2022November 19, 2022Electronics, Other Stuff, Projects

Making a Mini Smoke Machine

A few years ago I needed to generate a small and controllable amount of smoke for a shot I was working on: not too much smoke, as the subject was […]

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