Kevlar Crash
I am still interested in a better "bullet" backstop than my 45 degree Lexan deflector and started looking around for a source of bulletproof cloth.
At some point I thought about asking one of my co-workers (who is working on a bullet project) if he had any ideas. Much to my delight and surprise he told me that he had some cloth that he wasn't going to use and gave t to me.
He told me it was good stuff, 3D weave.
Today I cut out a small square (~8x8 inches) and mounted it on top of a piece of thick foam, backed by a piece of wood.
This is a picture of the shot. You can just see the little steel ball in the cavity.
It was a success. the ball was stopped by the fabric, which was stretched but unbroken. The foam was badly bruised and the wood was slightly dented.
Without the Kevlar, the wood would have been trashed...
I am not sure how it will work over lots of shots, but I want try try many layers with some sort of backdrop (Lexan maybe).
If it stands up to lots of hits, this may be a good solution. I think it will be useful regardless.
I got a small photographic part in the mail today that looks like a good thing. It's a E-mount to Nikon F mount adapter.
Last year I bought a Sony NEX-6 camera that I wanted to try to use for backpacking. They had announced the availability of a 10-18mm lens for this camera which would be my happy lens for backpacking.
I like wide angle.
The camera is an odd little beast, it was behaving in alarming ways so I returned it and got a replacement. The most alarming problem went away, but others remained, so I guess it's just what the camera is.
The kit lens, though, is a piece of crap. I have owned quite a few lenses and this is the first one that I ever been annoyed with.
It is really badly distorted at the wide end. The camera corrects it for the .jpg files, but when you import the RAW files to Lightroom, Wow....
I started to question the risk of buying the Sony wide angle (not a cheap lens).
Then I found out something I should have known. With it's super-short lens mount to sensor distance, virtually any other DSLR lens can be adapted to the E-mount. You loose automatic control of focus and f-stop, but for landscape work I have time to deal with that.
So i tried out the adapter today and I am enjoying it. the focus peaking feature of the Sony makes it easy to see when you are set and the ring on the adapter that adjusts the f-stop works fine.
It's great to have my good Nikon 10-24mm lens on the camera. I want to try out the 17-35mm lens later since it has a dedicated ring for f-stop that will eliminate guessing.
When I take it, I would take the kit lens and leave it on the body so that I could catch something fully automatic and have the wide angle/adapter in my backpack to use for slower events.
Cheers.
Kevlar Crash
I am still interested in a better "bullet" backstop than my 45 degree Lexan deflector and started looking around for a source of bulletproof cloth.
At some point I thought about asking one of my co-workers (who is working on a bullet project) if he had any ideas. Much to my delight and surprise he told me that he had some cloth that he wasn't going to use and gave t to me.
He told me it was good stuff, 3D weave.
Today I cut out a small square (~8x8 inches) and mounted it on top of a piece of thick foam, backed by a piece of wood.
This is a picture of the shot. You can just see the little steel ball in the cavity.
It was a success. the ball was stopped by the fabric, which was stretched but unbroken. The foam was badly bruised and the wood was slightly dented.
Without the Kevlar, the wood would have been trashed...
I am not sure how it will work over lots of shots, but I want try try many layers with some sort of backdrop (Lexan maybe).
If it stands up to lots of hits, this may be a good solution. I think it will be useful regardless.
I got a small photographic part in the mail today that looks like a good thing. It's a E-mount to Nikon F mount adapter.
Last year I bought a Sony NEX-6 camera that I wanted to try to use for backpacking. They had announced the availability of a 10-18mm lens for this camera which would be my happy lens for backpacking.
I like wide angle.
The camera is an odd little beast, it was behaving in alarming ways so I returned it and got a replacement. The most alarming problem went away, but others remained, so I guess it's just what the camera is.
The kit lens, though, is a piece of crap. I have owned quite a few lenses and this is the first one that I ever been annoyed with.
It is really badly distorted at the wide end. The camera corrects it for the .jpg files, but when you import the RAW files to Lightroom, Wow....
I started to question the risk of buying the Sony wide angle (not a cheap lens).
Then I found out something I should have known. With it's super-short lens mount to sensor distance, virtually any other DSLR lens can be adapted to the E-mount. You loose automatic control of focus and f-stop, but for landscape work I have time to deal with that.
So i tried out the adapter today and I am enjoying it. the focus peaking feature of the Sony makes it easy to see when you are set and the ring on the adapter that adjusts the f-stop works fine.
It's great to have my good Nikon 10-24mm lens on the camera. I want to try out the 17-35mm lens later since it has a dedicated ring for f-stop that will eliminate guessing.
When I take it, I would take the kit lens and leave it on the body so that I could catch something fully automatic and have the wide angle/adapter in my backpack to use for slower events.
Cheers.