Entries from October 2009
Cheapest follow focus ever for canon 7d / 5d mark II
October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Ever since I have fallen in love with the Canon 7d dslr, I have been fantasizing about making a legit follow focus for a dslr. It allows you to have more control over the focusing, and a smoother camera because your rotation is in a different axis as the lens. (You may hear more of [...]
Tags: photography · video
Why I love dropbox.
October 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
This will be a simple post.
I want to put my love for dropbox into words. For those out of the know, dropbox is a simple online storage solution. They give you 2 gigs of storage for free. Some of the space can be web-accessible (should you choose) so you can post zip files or pictures [...]
Tags: general geek · osx
star trail stacking in photoshop
October 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
I have always wanted to do this kind of photography, but with most digital cameras there is simply no way you can leave the shutter open and the sensor on for a few hours. My D40 starts to get some serious noise after a few minutes, and there clearly must be an upper limit due [...]
Tags: applescript · general geek · photography · time lapse
nikon d40 camera external power supply hack
October 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments
I have been looking for a way to add external power to my camera for a while. I have had some good ideas and even hacked together a workable prototype a while back. The problem was it wasn't very 'tight' and I was always afraid I was going to reverse polarity, or short it out, [...]
Tags: general geek · photography · time lapse