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May 9, 2023April 10, 2024Electronics, Microcontrollers, Projects

Building a Motorized Macro Rail: Part 2

Picking up from where part 1 of the Motorized Macro Rail project left off: Design Modifications I’ve made few improvements to the prototype design for the “production” version, as outlined […]

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March 13, 2023April 10, 2024Electronics, Microcontrollers, Projects

Building a Motorized Macro Rail

The Prototype Taking a (semi) objective look at this site recently I realised that it’s ages since I built a project with an Arduino. That’s certainly not because I’ve built […]

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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, 2022April 10, 2024Lenses, Projects

How to Make a DIY Rear-Mount Flare Adapter for the EOS-R

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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August 24, 2022March 26, 2023Electronics, 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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December 9, 2021November 6, 2022Lighting, Modifiers, Projects

Diffuser for LED Light Panel

In my post about building an LED light panel from an old computer monitor I said it would be useful to be able to add some diffusion to the front […]

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September 12, 2021November 5, 2022Lighting, Projects

DIY High Power LED Monolight

I’ve been quite focused on light building projects recently, but before I move on to other targets for my enthusiam I felt I had to make something with one of […]

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March 22, 2021July 25, 2022Equipment Hacks, Projects

Recycling a Polariser to use with 100mm Filter Holders

In the days when I used a Cokin P square filter system I tried a few polarising filters, and ended up with one made by Stealth Gear which gave me […]

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February 15, 2021November 19, 2022Equipment Hacks, Lenses, Projects

Pentacon 135mm Rebody: A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing

Last spring, when I was putting together my anamorfake Pentacon 50mm lens, I had the overwhelming urge to get hold of a few more old M42 lenses of different focal […]

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January 10, 2021April 18, 2023Other Stuff, Projects

A Lens Hood for 100mm Filter Holders

I’m one of those sad photographers who always uses a lens hood. I have one for every lens I own, and whenever I’m taking pictures the hood is always on […]

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