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Shooting all those self portraits without a remote control was getting pretty tiring: it took me ages to get the right focus.
So I asked my dad to make me one, since there are a lot of instructibles online.
So there we were, looking for something that was shaped like a box and had two buttons, when I ran into this old mouse.
It only took us a stereo jack and 3 (three!) metres of cable, five minutes wiring it up and voilà!
A mouse-shaped wired remote control for basically any Canon Rebel that controls both focus and shutter!
How cool is that?
All Saints, Laxfield, Suffolk
Laxfield is a large, relatively remote village, and its church has a surprisingly urban setting, with its railings onto the wide main street, the shop on one side, the pub on the other, and the former guildhall opposite. This could easily be a quiet part of a former medieval city, Norwich or Bristol, perhaps. That Laxfield is very much off the beaten track makes it doubly surprising. Unusually in Suffolk the tower is faced in stone, the knapped flint has been used only sparingly. It is reminiscent of Eye, and Sam Mortlock thought his might be because Eye priory held the living here, although, as Simon Cotton has pointed out, this tower is a little older than Eye's. Redenhall church in Norfolk is another similar tower which is called to mind, and it seems likely the same masons were involved in all three. Shields of the Wingfields bear witness to the involvement of that most influential of families in this part of Suffolk. The nave is perhaps the work of a century earlier than the tower, and the disappointingly dumpy porch is a result of the removal of the upper storey some time after the Reformation.
As if the stonework of the tower were not singular enough, the rebuilding of the east end of the nave and of the entire chancel was carried out in white brick in the 1820s. This is too early for the influence of the Liturgical Movement of that century to have insisted on the proper medieval materials, but it is attractive in its way.
William Dowsing, the great iconoclast, was born in Laxfield, and retained his family house and land here, but he spent most of his time at his other houses in Baylham and Stratford in the south of the county. Interestingly, the visit to Laxfield church to check it for Catholic imagery that is recorded in his journal on Wednesday, 17 July 1644 was in isolation from the rest of his tour around Suffolk and Cambridgeshire's churches. This suggests that he was already in the area for other reasons, perhaps connected with collecting rents on land he owned in the parish.
Dowsing found rather more at Laxfield to disapprove of than he had in many churches elsewhere. There were angels and crosses on the roof and porch, images in stained glass, possibly a stone carving or two, possibly two bench ends of evangelistic symbols, and brass inscriptions indicative of Catholic practice. He also ordered the chancel steps to be levelled. These had been recently uplifted as part of the Laudian reforms, which the Puritans thought suspiciously Catholic. Laud would be beheaded six months after Dowsing's visit here. Dowsing entrusted the work here to his nephew in the village, also called William Dowsing, one of numerous Dowsings in 17th Century Laxfield, and there is still a Dowsing Farm in the neighbourhood. The younger William and his wife Sybil are buried under ledger stones in the church.
Dowsing is often accused of being solely responsible for the wrecking of Suffolk's churches, which, quite plainly, he wasn't. The great holocaust of Suffolk church interiors had been carried out a century earlier, by Anglican vandals in the last years of Henry VIII, and under the thankfully brief fundamentalist regime of the boy-king Edward VI. This was when altars and statues were smashed, rood-lofts and images torn down, vestments and mass-books thrown on to bonfires, gold and silver plate looted and melted down. Much of this was likely to have been carried out by mobs in a drunken frenzy. Dowsing's was a mopping-up operation, checking for 'that which was not formerly removed'. His hit-list was the chancel steps recently introduced by Laud, images in stained glass (many of these had survived the Anglican reformers, because of the sheer inconvenience of replacing them), angels on the roof beams, crosses and statues in inaccessible places, and brass inscriptions referring to the cult of the dead. Occasionally, he circumscribed a font, as at Hacheston.
This is interesting, because in three of the Suffolk churches he visited, Badingham, Cratfield and here, at Laxfield, there survive three of the finest seven sacrament fonts in the kingdom. These fonts are the height of Catholic imagery, and were produced at the highest moment of Catholic popularity and practice in the middle of the 15th century. Why did Dowsing not destroy them? Perhaps he felt that simply mutilating them was enough, although he does not mention doing this, and there is some evidence that this had occured 100 years before. Perhaps he did not think them superstitious, in the sense that worship was unlikely to be offered to them. This was probably how the font cover at Ufford survived, presuming the statuettes had been removed before he got there. Most likely of all, they were hammered flush, and plastered over, a century before Dowsing's visit.
The first impression on entering this great church is its sheer size. There are no aisle, no clerestory, just a vast roof spanning 36 feet across the mighty space, one of the widest in Suffolk. Hemmed in by doored pews set at a camber at the west end is the Seven Sacraments font, a breath-taking object. If this was in the V&A in London, people would happily travel just to see it. It is set at the centre of a great Maltese cross, the gaps between the arms of the cross intended for priest and baptismal party. The bowl has no shaft and is set directly on the base.
The seven sacraments are set in arcades. The north-east panel shows the baptism of Christ, and then the others, in clockwise order, are matrimony, baptism, ordination, confirmation, mass, confession and last rites. It is common for the odd-panel-out to face east or west, so this bowl may have been moved at some point. It would be fair to say that the scenes are not as intricate or artistically fine as at neighbouring Cratfield, as characterful as at Badingham as close in the other direction, as mysterious as Westhall. But they are very fine, and probably have more in common with Westhall than the others. Simon Cotton tells me that will evidence dates this font to the 1460s.
The banked sets of early 19th Century box seats in the north-west and south-west corners of the nave were intended for scholars, and you can still make out the labels on them. You can see something similar on the other side of Suffolk at Kedington. There are other good benches from a century or so either side of the Reformation, although not much survives of medieval evidence. Traces of paint at the east end of the mighty roof suggest that there was once a canopy of honour to the rood here. Unlike at nearby Metfield, it was painted directly onto the beams. Above the west door there is an unusual plaster royal arms of Queen Anne. Francis Spear's crucifixion in the east window is a suitably striking end to the view down the drama of this grand space.
And there are the little details. Look at the reading desk in front of the pulpit. It must date from the late 17th or early 18th centuries, but the two supporting figures are exotic in the extreme. They depict two buxom figures, typical subjects of the time on domestic furnishings, but they do not appear to have been reused from elsewhere. It is tempting to think of them as pagan, but they are more likely the work of a local carver. Perhaps he had visited the south seas on a trading ship in his youth, and had never forgotten it.
Ferngesteuerte Lok der Baureihe 294, Rangierbahnhof München Nord / Remote-controlled class 294 locomotive, Munich North marshalling yard
One Light Setup. Over head flash in a gridded octabox. darken the ambient light as much possible by increasing the shutter speed.
Flash is triggered using Pixel King remote wireless trigger
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Six metres, in the golden hour around sunrise at 05:41am on Sunday 16th March 2014 opposite Western Parade and Sands Bistro, beneath the old Pier, on the muddy shoreline of Southend on Sea, Essex, England.
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Nikon D800 24mm 1/50s f/2.8 iso200 Mirror Up RAW (14-bit). Matrix metering. Manual exposure mode. AF-S Single point.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL 15 batteries. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release cable. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Hoodman HGEC soft eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14. Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap. Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag
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rewired the charger pads directly to the +/- of the lipo. added a reedswitch so the pads only have power if a strong magnet is present. so i can safely handle the remote even in saltwater without shorting the battery. to charge it i use a lipo charger which is doing a much better job then the crappy builtin charging circuit.
The remote mounted in an old Mini-Disk box and connected without extension to my Canon EOS 350D.
* If you press the first button, the camera does all the metering and focus.
* Keeping the metering button pressed and pressing the second button takes the shot. (you can also do manual bulb with that button)
* The switch is used long exposure in bulb mode. You can switch it on and go away, the shutter will close when you switch it off.
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This is a homemade EOS remote control, to take shot from a distance and use it as bulb.
It's based on this schema and should have the similar functionality as a RS-60E3.
The cost is virtually null except for the connectors (see the note on the photos) as you need a 2.5mm connector which is not very standard.
The material used is:
- 1 switch and 2 buttons all already soldered on the front of a cannibalized VCR (power switch+two control buttons) FREE
- 1 3.5mm jack from an old pair of earphones FREE
- 1 2.5mm male to 3.5mm female jack connector, ~3.5£/6.5$
- optionally a 3.5 jack extension (2m) lead, ~2£
The connectors where found at a normal "media" shop that sells CDs, earphones, etc...
TV Remote Control in the circles of Secular Jews seem ubiquitous as a Mezuzah for Orthodox Jews
Each Mezuzah contains the parchment of Hear O Israel... with the TV Remote Control Israel may Watch TV as well as Hear it.
RC pistol controler, build for the White Ice. It can be controle with 1 or 2 hands.
With the small stick on the back the steering can be controled by the thumb.
Controler is based on LegOscar's pistol controler.
Continued from a previous post....
Then in the middle of the clearing my eyes located seemingly the source for this anomaly. There, covered in moss was a pyramid surrounded by a stone wall. Not large by Egyptian standards or small like a child’s play thing but in keeping with the trees and surrounding area. From my vantage point I could see no entrance. While walking on the path that led around the structure I pondered, why would anyone build anything like this? Certainly the effort was more than a passing whim. The size of the pyramid and the stones that it was made of were far more than a single person could have moved in a lifetime. Yet, its remote location and rough terrain dictated only a few could have possibly contributed to the effort.
To be continued....Here www.flickr.com/photos/casch/8398635457/in/photostream/
Remote sensing was performed, using magnetometers and radar to “see” below the ground’s surface – allowing Dr. King and her team to anticipate features that might be missed from shovel testing alone.
This is the infrared remote control I build for my nikon camera using parts that I had lying around (but I had to buy the IR Diode because I didnt have any broken remotes available).
I got the idea and source code from this page. Just had to port the code to the microcontroller I had available and did some minor improvements on the circuit for dynamic range selection (will solder the missing switch on the free space).
I am very happy with the result. It is just the first version, but it holds quite comfortable in the hand and has a range of around 4 meters using the maximum power mode.
woman with an infrared remote control pointing it at the viewer while changing channels on the television
When I saw Victor W.'s Do-it-yourself projects, I decided to try something myself. With a little (ok, with a lot) of help from Victor I built this radio remote for my EOS 450D. I knew that the plug that the original cable release has is an usual 2.5mm plug and that I would only need something that already uses wireless components to modify. I took a cheap wireless doorbell from eBay, disconnected the speaker, cut out the LED that indicates a signal and replaced it with an opto-trigger (MOC 3020), that closes the circuit of the cable from the camera, when the button of the remote is pressed.
Unlike Victor's projects, this is nothing that kills you, so if you want any details just ask, I will try to help best I can.
You can build you own cable release for about 2€ by the way, just buy a stereo cable with a 2.5mm plug and rip off the isolation. One of the wires connected to ground will make the camera focus and shoot, the other wire connected to ground will just focus, try it, it's really easy. If you look closely at the top photo, you see a thin wire with blue isolation next to a blank wire. Those two connected focuses and fires the camera. The other wire of the stereo cable has the same with red isolation, those two are for focusing only.
Oh, and.... total costs: 8€
All work and no sleep makes Akiko a tired Lass.
Then again...being on the road for 13-hours would make me tired, too (and...it did).
Remote Sensing for Hazard Mitigation and Resource Protection in Pacific Latin America:
This project focuses on developing remote sensing tools and validation methods for hazard mitigation and resource protection in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Panama and soon Costa Rica.
We are working towards two important goals:
(1) to develop a formal linkage among geoscience agencies in the four countries, focusing on the collaborative development of remote sensing tools for hazard mitigation and water resource development, and
(2) to build a new educational system of applied research and engineering, using two existing educational programs at Michigan Tech: a new Peace Corps/Master’s International program in Natural Hazards which features a 2-year field assignment, and an undergraduate Enterprise program, which gives teams of civil, environmental, and geological engineering students the opportunity to work on real-world problems over multiple years in a business-like setting.
Taken during remote sensing flight on 7/20/20 to assist in improvements to the NOAA Harmful Algal Bloom forecast. This airborne campaign is ongoing in conjunction with NOAA weekly Lake Erie monitoring and biweekly sampling in Saginaw Bay. Credit: Zachary Haslick, Aerial Associates Photography Inc, www.skypics.com.
You put the velcro tape on the heavy side of the remote (i find that this works best)
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Hahaha, a completely accidental photo that I ended up really liking. I think I may try some other things with me walking away from the camera, but I'm going to need a non infared remote..
The temple of the goddess Isis at Philae is one of the most beautiful in Egypt, not as large as some but structurally largely complete, which is fitting for the temple believed to be the last to operate under the ancient Egyptian religion, having only formally closed for pagan worship in the 6th century AD.
It was also the first of Egypt's great temples I ever saw in person and left me spellbound, and thus it was fitting that this should again be the first we visited on this trip.
The temple sits in a uniquely picturesque setting on a small island in the Nile south of Aswan and thus has only ever been approached boat. The complex consists of the main temple building dedicated to Isis (wife of Osiris and mother of Horus) whose inner sanctum is entered via a forecourt with towering pylons guarding the inner and outer entrances. All this is approached from the Nile through an open court flanked by lengthy colonnades making an unforgettable first impression.
There are several subsidary buildings of note around the site, the most imposing of which is undoubtedly the large rectangular colonnaded structure known as 'Trajan's Kiosk', which features some beautifully carved capitals.
The temple is relatively new by Egyptian standards, begun under one of the last of the native pharoahs, Nectanebo I (c380-62 BC) but mostly dating to the Ptolemaic period (as do many of the better preserved temples in the south of the country).
The temple's long use and later conversion to a church along with its remote location helped preserve it more or less completely over the centuries, but in the 20th century it faced its biggest threat, the construction of the Aswan dams which are located either side and caused Philae island to flood. The first dam (built 1902) caused the temple to be inundated for much of the year (thus washing away all the remaining paintwork from the interior; 19th century watercolours record what a loss the coloured details were). The bigger threat came in the 1960s when the Aswan High Dam was built to the south, causing the water levels to rise enough to completely submerge most of the temple. For some years all that could be seen of Philae were the four main towers and the columns of Trajan's Kiosk emerging from the waters.
Fortunately salvation came in the 1970s following the campaign to rescue and relocate the Nubian temples further south also threatened by the rising waters. Following the construction of a coffer-dam around the temple the entire temple complex was dismantled and rebuilt on higher ground on the adjoining island of Agilika where it can be enjoyed in its full splendour today.
For more on this wonderful site see below:-
Only 2 people exploring this deserted and remote West Australian beach - Lights Beach bordered by the Southern Ocean.
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