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All set for the high desert Summer Sun
Ugly pseudo HDR conversion with Photomatix.
Shot by my girlfriend Zoe.
Much better! Not exactly an architectual masterpiece, of course, just a quick example to show how much better you can make your point and shoot photos with just a little bit of extra effort.
The off-camera flash is a $10 eBay find. It's an older Vivitar 2500 auto thyristor flash. Not super powerful (GN80 at ISO100), but WAY better than the Samsung D53's built-in flash. Not to mention the often more pleasing image that results from the use of an off-camera flash.
Now here comes the cool part. Like most small point and shoot digital cameras, the Samsung does not have a hotshoe for flash mounting, nor does it have a PC sync terminal. So triggering the off-camera flash requires a neat little gadget called an optical slave.
It's a wee thing attaches to your off-camera flash. The slave has a light sensor that "sees" the pulse of light from the camera's built-in flash, and triggers the off-camera flash. Optical slaves are cheap, sometimes less than $10.
One more wrinkle. Most point and shoot digital cameras fire a low power "pre-flash" before making the exposure to set the correct flash power for the actual exposure. This pre-flash will be seen by the optical slave, and it will obediently trigger the off-camera flash the slave is attached to. This means your carefully set up off-camera flash has now shot it's wad before the camera's shutter has even opened. To get around this problem, some optical slaves have an adjustable delay mode. When set correctly, the slave will see the pre-flash pulse from the camera, wait a very brief moment, then trigger the off-camera flash to sync properly with the camera's exposure. Yay! problem solved.
You can get even fancier, as I did with this setup. If you look closely at the large version of this photo, you'll see a little gizmo sitting on top of the white display cabinet. It's the second from the left object on top of the cabinet. It's my optical slave with delay, but it's not attached to the off-camera flash, which is to camera left.
Instead, it's attached to the transmitter of a radio flash trigger. The sequence works like this:
1) The camera's built-in flash fires a low power pulse to meter for proper flash power.
2) The optical slave sees the pulse from the camera, and waits for a moment.
3) The optical slave triggers the radio transmitter it's attached to.
4) The radio transmitter sends a coded radio pulse.
5) The radio receiver attached to the off-camera flash receives the coded radio pulse.
6) The radio receiver triggers the off-camera flash it's attached to, syncing perfectly with the camera, which is now making the exposure.
All this happens VERY rapidly and reliably.
This is my Clausing model 5912 engine lathe.
I bought it used from a seller in SE New Hampshire in 2003. I brought it back here to Northern New York.
12.25-inch swing, 36-inches between centers.
It was originally equipped with a 1HP three-phase motor and a hydraulically-controlled variable-speed spindle drive. I am replacing the original drive and motor with a new three-phase 7.5HP direct-drive motor and a 480V VFD (Variable Frequency Drive).
Highly processed single-exposure pseudo-HDR image.
This photo was made with my old Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. It was made in 1972 or 1973. It is quite scratched, dusty and maybe even has a little fungus growing, along with damaged coatings.
Nonetheless, it is fun to play with. I performed a crude AI-modification to the aperture ring (I used a file). The lens now works perfectly with my Nikon D600 (full metering and focus confirmation).
Taken at the October 24th, 2012 campaign event of Governor Mitt Romney at Reno, Nevada.
It was very challenging to get decent shots of the event. A dark arena, long distance to subject requiring a long (shaky) slow lens and then a heavy crop, plus crazy mixed white balance lighting conspired to keep me on my toes.
It was amusing to watch the iPhone/Android crowd attempt to grab pics and video of their guy. Most of their shots were VERY blurry and had disturbing colors, like an impressionist painting of a bad LSD trip (oh, wait, I just remembered where we were...)
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
2014 Burning Man participants on the way to Black Rock City, Nevada
Shot on Gould Street in Reno.
This is what remains of a 1976 Cadillac Sedan deVille. 1976 was the Bicentennial year of the USA, and surely one of the low points in American automotive production. The fact that the 500 cubic inch (8.2 Liter) V-8 engine still runs at all is nothing short of miraculous...
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
This image was made from seven exposures, ranging from 1/1000 sec to 4 seconds long. The exposures were combined using Photomatix's Exposure Fusion function.
The Persian emperor wanted to be able to safely
impose his tyranny on the people of Greece.
So he demanded that they surrender their arms.
Leonidas of Sparta retorted in classical Greek,
with the now-famous phrase:
“Molon Labe”
which means
“Come and Take Them”.
2,500 years later,
Molon Labe still is used
as a cry of defiance
against tyrants
trying to disarm a people
who want to be free.
I opened up this pack to inspect it before use, as the flash it came from is quite old. Some charge / discharge cycles on my Accucel-6 charger showed that it retains about 1,300mAh discharge capacity.
10 Sub-C NiCd cells in series (12 Volts).
Thermal probe for over-temperature protection while charging.
Norman part number B4126 or 811926
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
Here's a view with the aluminum cover slid off.
The MW6208E USB controller chip is visible. Knowing the part numbers of the ICs inside a flash drive can help you to Google up the correct software to reprogram the drive back to actual capacity.
You don't want to leave the drive as-is, because any data written to it beyond the actual capacity will corrupt the drive.
There are two more photos in this set.
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This photo was made with my old Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. It was made in 1972 or 1973. It is quite scratched, dusty and maybe even has a little fungus growing, along with damaged coatings.
Nonetheless, it is fun to play with. I performed a crude AI-modification to the aperture ring (I used a file). The lens now works perfectly with my Nikon D600 (full metering and focus confirmation).