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 […]
Read moreTime 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 […]
Read moreHow 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 […]
Read moreImproving 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreDIY 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 […]
Read moreLens 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 […]
Read moreFun 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 […]
Read moreMaking 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 […]
Read moreMaking 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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