Tag Archives: Camera

May
31
2012

Problems with my 365 :(

by Skippy

For some reason my Project 365 has stopped dealing with emails correctly; so until that is fixed I am going to pause it. I will still poke photos to it sporadically; but they wont be part of my 365. I was using a word press plug in called Postie to check an pop email address; but [...]

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May
17
2012

Automatic Panoramic Head – Part 1: Press the button

by Skippy

According to Wikipedia: An intervalometer is a device which counts intervals of time. (Other names include interval meter and interval timer). Such devices commonly are used to signal, in accurate time intervals, the operation of some other device. For instance, an intervalometer might activate something every 30 seconds. In photography, intervalometers are used to trigger exposures. This is often done [...]

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Apr
12
2012

Book 2: Fox Talbot

by Skippy

John Hannavy’s ”Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, ‘Father of Modern Photography’, 1800 -1877″ Fox Talbot is universally recognised as the father of modern photography. His ‘calotype’ or ‘Talbotype’ process was the first working photographic process to use the now familiar format of negatives and positives. He was an ambitious man but [...]

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Mar
12
2012

Task 44 – Complete a 365 day Photo Challenge

by Skippy

I have started setting up 365.skippy.org.uk as part of my Day Zero challenge list; it wont share an RSS feed with this blog so you may want to add http://365.skippy.org.uk/feed/ to follow it; or follow me on twitter as @SkippyUK. I plan to start this challenge on the first of April; so I have a while to make sure that everything works

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Feb
11
2012

New camera

by Skippy

Today I picked up a black Fujifilm finepix XP30 camera. As a replacement to the camera built into my phone (an iPhone 3G) the Fujifilm finepix XP30 has all the features that the XP20 has; water, dust, shock, and freezer proof (I would have said resistant. But then again. I don’t work in marketing) but [...]

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Feb
07
2012

ROV – Part 4: Vision System

by Skippy

I picked up a Edimax Wired Network IP Camera from Maplins I wanted to evaluate it for the posibility of using them with my ROV Project (And Perhaps a Birdbox idea for my mum). At the moment its sat on my window cill feeding an image to the web every 15 minutes (when I don’t turn it off) via [...]

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Jan
24
2012

ROV – Part 3: Control System

by Skippy

I have been playing with Microsoft Visio (My First ROV Visio File) to create a Drawing smiler to the one I found of BART. There are two things you may spot on my Schematic Diagram; My cunning use of Ethernet over CAT 5 for Data. I forgot to draw the lights on – ah well. The cunning Plan is [...]

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Apr
23
2011

Walk from Stratford to Camden

by Skippy

Having not much else on Loupie and I went for a walk to Camden, Starting from Stratford Underground station, we had hoped to take the Greenway. and join up with the canal; however there was a slight diversion required.Stratford end facing west; oh and while we are standing her looking at this; how is this [...]

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