Entries from May 2009
DIY Depth of Field (dof) adapter – for sony vx2100
May 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I love the tight dof look that you can get with cine lenses. I have always been greatly saddened by the lack of dof in consumer and prosumer cameras. I have gone through a few iterations of building different half-assed diy dof adapters. This current one is based on a cd player motor spinning a [...]
Tags: photography
CHDK Update
May 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
So as I referenced in an earlier post, I bit the bullet and bought a camera so I could test out CHDK. CHDK is a hacked firmware for canon cameras that use one of three imge sensors. I believe it is the digic 2, 3, and 4 sensors. It turns out that all of [...]
Tags: general geek · photography · time lapse · video
My take on Ponoko – a big disappointment.
May 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments
I signed up for ponoko a few months ago when oomlout put up the plans for their robotic arm on thingaverse. It seemed like a cool service, but I didn't want to drop a few hundred on a robotic arm with no real need (who needs a need?) for it, so I moved on. This [...]
Tags: general geek