Misc links - Jan 2011

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Misc links - Jan 2011

Postby DanielA on Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:41 pm

While trawling the interweb I occasionally bump into interesting photography links which I think others might be interested in but don't deserve a post of their own, so I thought I'd summarise what I've seen in the last month. Enjoy:

Photo Tips:

Camera flash soft box
http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/01/came ... t-box.html
Since there has been some discussions recently about softboxes, here is a nifty one using a box from Ikea. I think the box name listed is incorrect, it looks like should be a Skubb Box.

Make Light Painting Circles With Light
http://diyphotography.net/make-lighting ... with-light
A neat trick of using a paint roller to make perfect light circles. The author's photo stream is really worth viewing: Dennis Calvert. [via LifeHacker]

What to do when you break your camera
http://www.digital-photography-school.c ... our-camera
Some sensible suggestions to follow when you damage your camera. I'm sure we all know this already. [via LifeHacker]

Interesting:

Flash bulb at 1052fps
http://fstoppers.com/what-your-cameras- ... t-1052fps/
Just 13 seconds of an old style flash bulb burning in slow-mo. Worth seeing in HD. [via Petapixel via Gizmodo]

Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... echnology/
A 680kg X-ray camera shooting ten million images per second sounds great... but at only 0.00003 megapixels (30 pixels). :( [via Gizmodo]

The Internet being surprising:

eBay auction of a battered old camera for US$104,000
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 740wt_1705
That does seem expensive. The Leica MP-36 was apparently owned by Leif Engberg. [via PetaPixel via Gizmodo]

Camera speakers
http://www.gadget4all.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=01989
Another case of people making things in the shape of a DSLR. Why would you do this? [via Gadget4all via GadgetSin via ChipChick via Gizmodo]

If you find these interesting let me know and I'll keep an eye out in the future.

Daniel
Nikon D4, D2Xs, D70, Nikkors and Sigmas lenses from 10 to 400mm
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Re: Misc links - Jan 2011

Postby sevencolours on Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:07 pm

Daniel

thanks for that

I will add one of my own, which is a project that I would like to try at some stage

http://www.robertharrison.org/icarus/wordpress/about/

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Re: Misc links - Jan 2011

Postby surenj on Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:22 pm

The softbox link might come handy for some of the keen attendees of the portrait seminar. :wink: Or maybe they will just visit the Profoto website... :mrgreen:
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