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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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 […]
Read moreBack to Basics: the Dog Bowl Beauty Dish
While I’m waiting for parts for the stepper motor-based design I’m working on, I thought I’d take a quick trip back to basics. My first DIY photography build was a […]
Read moreImproving 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 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 moreHow 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 […]
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 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 […]
Read moreGrid for Godox AD100 Pro Flash
I recently added a Godox AD100 Pro to my collection of portable strobes. Compared to my shoe-mount strobes it’s more powerful (at 100 Ws), easier to mount off camera, has […]
Read moreMore Adventures in Neoprene
Way back in early 2020 when I made the lens coat for my Sigma 100-300mm f4 lens, I had my eye on the Canon 400mm f5.6 L-series lens and thought […]
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