good gear to go with your shiny new canon 7d
December 20th, 2009 · No Comments
I can only hope that there will be a lot of other happy people unwrapping new cameras this christmas. I bought my 7d about a month ago, and the best/worst thing is that now I realize buying it is just the beginning. I want to buy sooo much gear to use with it, and it [...]
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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 [...]
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How to use Ac power to replace the Nikon D40 battery
February 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments
I still haven't gotten the grip I mentioned a few posts ago. I don't know if I will. I have figured out a clumsy hack to get the job done and I might just run it this way, or perhaps clean it up a tiny bit.
This is the battery with little aluminum strips taped to [...]
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Macro Tube!
November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
I juts got a macro tube in the mail. It's basically a dumb (ie you need to be on full manual mode-no metering or AF) piece of aluminum that moves the lens further away from the camera body. Doing so it decreases the minimum focal point.
Basically it means you can get really tight up [...]
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time lapses – getting to know your intervalometer
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I've been inspired to shoot more pictures lately. Like everything else in my life I tend to go for quantity over quality, so I shot a LOT of pictures. I acquired a battery/intervalometer for my Nikon D40 a while back and didn't even notice the intervalometer settings until recently.
I've shot quite a few tests with [...]
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