Lightning Activated Shutter Release

lightning trigger

 

 

 

Today I saw that both MAKE and Ohgizmo are talking about a lightning activated shutter release. An expensive but cool device if you want to trip your camera once a lightning bolt flashes in front of the camera. It works because most lightning strikes are more than one arc of energy. As the bolt strikes a few times in a tiny moment the sensor commands the camera to trip it’s shutter. Bingo, you have a photo. That’s cool and everything but I prefer to do things the old fashioned way. For most of my lightning photos I use a pinhole camera and just let it sit there for up to an hour. Do I get some good shots? I think so.

Lightning Strikes (thin)

All of my pinhole lightning photos 

MOO Card Test Set

MOO card test set

These are a set of free cards that I got from Moo.com. I like the way they look, some of the full frame formatted photos have white borders but I can fix that by uploading some edited photos. The paper has a nice weight to it. The surface is smooth satin and feels great. I’ll be buying more of these soon. I love the way that Flickr can be used to not only display your photos but to also serve as the source for physical items. These cards are darn cool. 

MOO card test set on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Homemade Wide Angle 4×5 Camera

 

This is a thing of beauty…

"My home-made 6×9 super-wide camera. Rigid-body, 47mm f/5.6 Schneider MC Super-Angulon in a No. 0 shutter. With a Mamiya RB67 back…The helical focusing mount is made by Schneider – the distance scale is calibrated for the 47mm Super Angulons. You can buy the mount for some other lenses too. I scavanged the Graflock adapter and some other bits from an old American 6×9 rangefinder camera called Graflex XL. The rest I fabricated myself at a friend’s machine shop in Richmond. It was inspired by the Hasselblad SWC. To use, it is not as nice as the SWC, but I did some comparison shots, and most people who saw them thought that the SA is sharper than the 38 Biogon." 

[via Make

Home made camera – a photoset on Flickr

DIY Lenticular Stereo Images

Lenticular dragonI’ve seen parallax barrier/lenticular kits that you can buy in computer stores in Thailand. It had some software (simple image manipulation, 3D title maker, and the lenticular program) along with a picture frame that had a screen of the ridged lenticular material. The whole thing looked very cool. I think it was being sold by a printer maker, but I can’t remember what one. I do a bit of stereo photography here and there and was quite intrigued with it, but sadly not enough to buy the kit. The free software in the DIY article should be fun to play with though. 

 

[via MAKE]

Colograms – a simple way to create stereoscopic images

Moo Cards: Mini Custom Cards From Your Flickr Photos

Moo cards from FlickrHow cool, tiny name cards that feature your favorite Flickr images! If your the owner of a pro Flickr account you can have a free sampler pack of 10 shipped for you, you guessed it, free! These would be great as gift tags too, just stick a ‘To:’ and ‘From:’ line on the back and your set. I can’t wait to see what other people end up using these for. I should get mine in about a week. I’ll have to make it a point to shoot some photos specifically for these cards on my next trip.
For more printing ideas go have a look at the Qoop page. I’m betting that if the mini cards are as popular as I think there going to be, Moo will be branching out to the other popular photo sharing networks as well. I can only hope.

[via Boing Boing]

Moo Cards: Stunning kid-sized custom biz-cards with Flickr pix