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Macro Mondays 30/04/18 theme Plugs and Jacks.
On end of a ethernet cable and four blue LED's linked together to form a block then covered with black tape with eight slits cut into it.The block was placed behind the plug and the camera set for a four second exposure.A flash was used to light the plug first then I just move the block along for the rest of the exposure : )
This is a collection of old network BNC (Bayonet Neill–Concelman) connectors and terminators we found buried in a cupboard at work and joined together. Apart from being 20 years behind the times, they would also send the network traffic loopy if we connected them to anything - so the ultimate contraption. Over complicated. Looks impressive. Does nothing!
The BNC was commonly used for early computer networks, including ARCnet, the IBM PC Network, and the 10BASE2 variant of modern Ethernet.
Found it a bit tricky to get inspired by this topic but I found a lovely ethernet cable in my favourite colour : ) lol. Happy Macro Mondays.
-| Blue for You - ME 2023 |-
ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia International Awareness Day
A blue Ethernet patch cable and a length of bulk shielded audio cable in the manufacturer's signature blue color wrapped together.
Die Notebooks wurden mit Hilfe von PCMCIA Ethernet Karten mit dem Netzwerk verbunden.
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Früher wurden einmal die Rechner mit diesen Koaxialkabeln verbunden - es ware immer eine Bastelei mit den T-Stücken und den Terminatoren am Ende der Verkabelung.
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This is an RJ-45 connector for an Ethernet connection, otherwise known as an Internet connection.
Happy Macro Monday!
Taken with a Canon 60mm USM Macro lens. Type L for a better view.
Our Daily Challenge - Net - 1/22/12
Built for the 2023 Rogue Olympics. 16 pieces.
Thread: roguebricks.de/forum/index.php?thread/3974-ethernet-cable/
Twisted pairs of wire connected to an RJ-45 plug. Read the Wikipedia article to see why they are twisted. It is likely that every photo you see on Flickr has, at one point, traversed a twisted pair.
1:1 reproduction ratio.
Using the GS/OS app SAFE2 to FTP a newly created disk image from the Apple IIgs to my Mac Pro across the LAN via ethernet, thanks to the IIgs' Uthernet card in slot 2.
Transfer speed was about 8K/sec.
My connection to the world...
Photographer's note: I played with depth of field and f-stop for this macro. Even for the higher f-stops, it is amazing just how shallow the depth of field is for macro photography. If I lined the two RJ-45 plugs to just about the same plane with a high f-stop, but not too high to cause the image to suffer, I was able to have both plug heads in focus. I certainly see why focus stacking can be helpful for some macro photographs because then all the important elements could all be in focus. I'm not there yet. It has to be done in both photographing and the post-editing process with specific software. I have yet to try it. For this photo, I went simple. I held an ethernet cable up to the sky. I liked a narrow depth of field to focus on one side of one plug.
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While working though the production area at work this afternoon I found this sticker on a palette...
...I thought it suited the past few weeks perfectly.
On a side note, don't you just love the ethernet networking mess behind my computer! Can we say ghetto! :)
Ethernet plug.
No, this is an unmanipulated single-capture macro image without digital additions...
Yes. It’s visual trickery :)
What I did was place the RJ45 plug in front of my PC screen and then using Corel Painter I used a particle brush to paint the spark behind the plug on the LCD screen which formed the background. I did the painting while viewing the result through the camera as that made it quicker to get the height and dimensions correct.
As you can probably tell from the quality it’s more of a proof of concept than a refined work, but time was short and this was already Plan B. I think it was more successful than I anticipated, though like all experiments I’d do it differently next time. The main problem with using it for a macro was the pixelation in the screen background which becomes obvious if you zoom the image. I really needed to focus a bit nearer to the camera to blur the background.
I guess the best result would be with adding the spark digitally after the capture using Painter. But, for me anyway, I didn’t feel that was in the spirit of the Macro Mondays group challenge Plugs and Jacks, for which this was created.
The image is cropped to a three-inch width to fit in the group's limits.
Curiously Plan A was helpful too. The idea there was to use the PC screen as a polarised light source and put a polarising filter on the lens to generate wonderful colour highlights through the plastic (which changes the polarity of the light).
Well, wonderful they were but there is so little plastic in the plug we really needed to be a micro group to see it.
But what I did discover is that you can use the polariser on the lens to vary the perceived brightness of the LCD screen and its background image, which helps to balance it with the ambient lighting on the object in front.
I shall leave you with a final thought which seems apposite: We have the technology... it’s just the cable we’re missing :)
Thanks for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays!!!
[Tripod; remote release; manual focus in LiveView; VR off.
LCD screen and ambient daylight.
Processed in Affinity Photo using Levels to drop the background to black. Selectively changed the colour temperature of the plug to harmonize the ambient light with the PC screen background; sharpened mainly using a High Pass filter in Linear Light blend mode.
Crop; cleaned up using Inpainting brush (Healing tool), and then sharpened overall with Unsharp Mask.]
Testing a miniPC attached to my 480mm f6 refractor.
The miniPC ran PHD2 guiding and SharpCap for slewing the mount, plate solving and auto-focusing.
Mount control was with EQMOD.
Connected to home network by a long ethernet cable - I was able to watch over things from my iPAD inside the house!
240 x 1 minute exposures over 2 nights.
Technical Card
480/80mm f/6 Altair Starwave triplet refractor.
Altair Planostar 1.0 x FF with 2 inch IDAS P2 LPS filter
ZWO ASI2600MC; 240 x 60 second subs, Gain 100, Offset 25, Temp = -15c.
EQ6 R pro mount with EQMOD control. Primalucelab Sesto Senso electronic focuser.
Session control; SharpCap 4.1 on miniPC on scope
Automated plate solving GOTO.
Automated FWHM multistar focusing every 16 frames. +/- 250 steps at 8s and 600 gain.
60 dark frames
60 flat frames (electroluminescent panel A, 1600ms exposure @ 0 gain).
Post processed in PixInsight 1.8.9.
Light Pollution and Weather:
SQM (L) =20.2
Error measured by PHD2= 15 arc minute.
RA drift + 2.71 arcsec/min
Dec drift - 1.2 arcsec/min
Guiding:
PHD2 guiding with ZWO ASI290mm/Altair Starwave 206/50mm guider. Every 15th sub dithered.
RA RMS error 0.89 arcsec
Dec RMS error 0.79 arcsec
Astrometry:
Resolution; 1.613 arcsec/px
Rotation; 74.808 deg
Focal distance; 480.86 mm
Pixel size; 3.76 um
Field of view; 2d 5' 59.5" x 1d 33' 24.7"
Image centre;
RA: 3 46 55.070
Dec: +24 07 46.32
The Network Flower (or Internet Rose, lat. flos netaeris), is the only known non-organic species. The flowers are based on copper, various other metals, and synthetic materials. Unlike common plants, network flowers do not depend on the availability of water and sunlight, but on electricity and bits. Both are usually provided by computers, routers, switches, and other devices with which the flowers live in close symbiosis. Fully developed, internet roses provide sweet data in the form of bytes. Little is known about the metabolism and reproduction circle of this lifeform. Network flowers tend to build superorganisms similar to some kinds of ants or fungi. Some scientists believe that the largest of these superorganisms is world-spanning, the so-called word wide web.
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(29/365) A pile of old power and ethernet cables cleaned out from their hiding places in my office. For 119 pictures in 2019 #81, "piles of things".
A pouch from my Ethernet Cable Crimping Kit
Macro Mondays.
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Gear used: Canon 5D MkIII, Tamron SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Macro, a light tent and 3 speedlights
Camera settings: f/6.3, 1/160 seconds and ISO 50
Ethernet cables used with my router. The white one is input from my modem, the green one connects my desktop computer to the router, and the yellow one connects my cell spot to the router. A colorful set, I think. For the 2023 Weekly Alphabet Challenge and my POTD.
A lot of empty Ethernet ports.
Four Dell Networking N1500 Series Switches.
I wish you a happy Monochrome Monday and a great week.