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Grrr. Frustration. After the battery pack working last week, I was planning to get the switch seated. But after knocking around awhile, during all these other activities, the insulation on the wires to the switch (which had been hanging loose from said wires) was wearing through in a couple places. So I cut the wires, yanked them out, and did my best to cut and de-solder the ends from the terminals on the switch. (Which is also looking battered, but still tests good)
I go to some trouble to dig up some more wire, a bit heavier gage this time, just in case, and re-solder them to the switch. While I'm at it, I also Dremel a notch at either end of the hole I cut for the switch, to make room for the lumps on either end where the wires connect.
In the process of threading the wires back through the ooooh so tight and cramped space between the inner and outer shell of the Thermos (ever try to push a string?) and the solder breaks on one terminal of the switch. So I grit my teeth, these things happen, and with some trouble and wishing again for that third hand, I manage to reattach it with out pulling everything all apart again.
Then comes wrestling endlessly to angle and twist and tug, and trim with the X-acto, and dab with hot glue when I damage the insulation again, and pry it out to crimp the edges of the hole up a bit more, and back to shoving and trimming and...Well you get the idea.
So I finally get the durned thing in, and I whip out the ol' multimeter, and guess what? Continuity from both! wires to the metal shell of the Thermos. Which means I'm going to have to pull it all back apart all over again. Pry out the switch and yank the wires back out. Siiigh. But that's for another day/night, whatever. For tonight, frustration rules the land. Muhahahahaha!
Erm, yes. ...I'm blaming the fumes. Yeah, sure the fumes. ...
EDIT: The next night
Hot diggity damn! It works!
New day, fresh perspective. The old wires had been abused for a while, so they had worn insulation all along their length. The new wires were only worked up-close to the switch. I pulled the switch out like half an inch, and retested - No more continuity to the shell! :) So I slapped some electrical tape over the suspect area, tucked it back in and bingo:
One switch in place, and operational, and still testing clean!
I frequently use an LED flashlight to spotlight something I am taking a picture of. The other day I noticed a significant color shift in a flower - perhaps I had not noticed sooner because I had not taken apicture in daylight, and then with the flash.
Time to experiment. Camera on tripod, sheet of very white typing paper taped to wall. Camera set to P. All pictures taken in RAW (Sony) and opened in the raw converter that is part of Elements 11.
The flip-up flash on the camera (Sony A580) was used for the top picture.
The column of pictures on the left are screen shots of the images down the left side of the raw converter, and the histograms are screen shots from the raw converter.
I was surprised that the level of gray was not more similar. The color shifts were expected.
Addendum - I just went back to the raw processor and used the white balance tool on the white paper. The histograms were corrected for the major areas, with just some discrepancy at the left.
Takeaway: use a proper gray color patch in the photograph.
Last.fm visits The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn for a very special show by Flashlights during the CMJ Music Marathon 2014. Photos by Bryan VanGelder, © CBS Interactive
Darkness. In the Dark. Confusion. Chaos.... The Word. Master of the Universe. Light. Illumination. Photography! Knowledge. Yin-Yang. Warmth...
My Flickr friends know that I was in a yeshiva, Hebrew seminary through high school. There, I learned to hate much that is Jewish. In recent years of getting older, I draw upon the richness of traditions learned long ago, while discarding the craziness.
As we celebrate our December holidays of Light, let's remember Pearl Harbor 1941.
ISO 200, 27mm, f/3.6, 1/30s
These are LED flashlights that charge with a few turns of a built-in crank. They're little token from Robert Munro to our workers in Haiti. They'll be very useful to people, especially since power is out over much of the area we'll be visiting.
Btw, Robert has been instrumental in developing large parts of Mission 4636. I added our new Samasource stickers to them.
As you can see I haven' t put much effort in my 365 during weekends. It was a lovely weekend in the countryside again. Friday night we put the tent up and when it started to rain, read books in the flashlight. It was pouring all night and I accidentally let about thousand mosquitos in...nevertheless I slept really well, like I always do there.
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So what do you do when the power goes out AGAIN for the second time this month. Well first you take a few macros of a spider in the front yard... then you photograph the wife and kids having fun with flashlights.
Keychain flashlights: (l-r) Blue Countycomm $1 light, a white Photon knockoff, and a Princeton Tec Eclipse.
Inspired by the master Eric Curry, I set out to test my light painting abilities tonight. What better a first object than my daughter's trike out in the driveway? I'm not an expert, but I have so many ideas floating around in my head about light painting and I can't forget the beauty of Eric's images. So here it is, my first light painting photo. I used an LED flashlight on the bike and used a red gel to light the inside of the basket. I masked each photo together in photoshop and then pocessed the image through topaz adjust. This is 5 or 6 images I think. Image property of BTSphotos.com. All rights reserved.
This is my collection of Jeff Hanko's Fantastic lights! A group shot including the 16x16 3D EX10, an older 10x1 D10 with a finely grooved head, 10x6 3D D10 from Jeff's first run since his return, A Jhanko/Steve Ku V10R with Veleno 18650 body, A one of a kind 10x10 3D LF2XT (My EDC), Another V10R with two 15mm extenders, A Jhanko/Steve Ku V10R with the Veleno 18500 body and yet another V10R! What a happy Family!
I was able to use the flashlight unmodified except for removal of the reflector (which messes up the nice illumination pattern from the LED). Here is my switch extension, mounted in an ABS pipe clean-out plug. The extension is a 0.5 inch dowel, turned down to 0.25 inch on the end to push on the flashlight switch. I glued on a retaining collar cut from tempered hardboard.
The flashlight is mounted to hardboard centering rings. The last ring is pinched between the tube and the end cap, keeping the flashlight at the right position.
Miniature flashlight that came with a package of Duracell AA batteries. Also doubles as a light pen when necessary.