Two Adaptalux Controllers

 We now have two Adaptalux controllers a mark 1 in the foreground and a mark 3 in the background. It is interesting how products evolve over a few years from Kickstarter to a main stream product

New life for an old camera

 What do you do with your old digital camera when you upgrade - put it to good use as a Macro camera on an UltraMacro stand. With Multiple stacked images using Helicon Megapixels doesn't matter.

Capacitor charging video

Creating a capacitor charging and discharging circuit

 

Making the vertical camera level with the table

 To get everything to look right, it is necessary most of the time to have the cameras at right angles to the surfaces. For dramatic effects this can be changed but for science videos 90 degrees is the norm.

Glass Ball

 Trying out the glass ball as a different fish eye lens on the new macro photo setup in the lab. I hadn't realised the effort to set this up correctly, especially sorting out all the lights.

Constant Height Apparatus

 The water can only get to a maximum height  so the pressure remains constant coming out of the lower tap. Made by on of my Dad's so that I can achieve a constant flow for the  water clock experiment

Neo 3 colour flash

I have used 3 @Rotolight Neo 2 lights for a few years now, but at the @ukphotoshow this year with a bit of persuasion from my son we purchased the flash controller to turn these lights to flash units as well as getting a Neo3 for colour flash

New Macro setup

Bought at the photography show from Ultramacro.co.uk a wemacro vertical and horizonal focus stacking motorised control rails. We a few errors putting it together it really does produce some great images.

 

Rocks under UV Light

 Trying out the @Adaptlux UV lights recently purchased at the Photography show. In a dark box we illuminated a Fluorescent rock with the UV light and then experimented how to get the best images.

Photography Show

 We made it to the Photography show on Sunday. We managed to see all the things I wanted to see and naturally we found quite a few new things, some of course we bought. And now my shopping list is even longer.

Making a list

 Off to the Photography and Video Show. We making a list of all the things we want to have a look at and of course see lots of things we didn't know we needed

SEE Hyper-TILT Head Pro - The ultimate positioning tool

 

The new @seerobotics Hyper tilt head has arrived very quickly from Poland. 

On first tests it appears to as versatile as the adverts led us to believe. 

We will be trying this head out in our video productions to see if we can get the
camera in close on the action.

Visitor on the window

 We had a visitor on the window. At a length of about 3cm, quite a big insect, a common field grasshopper,  but the biggest  one I have seen.

Sleeping in Class

 Some of my students work really hard, achieving much improved grades, but occasionally I come across one for whom listening and working with me is just too much effort. Next doors Cat 

How many cameras

One of the problems we face when recording organ concerts in the UK is the organ hidden away and the difficulty of getting behind the organist to see what is going on. In this case we had zero metres behind the organist
 

Waiting for goods

 I have ordered and paid for quite a lot of kit to start the new term, but most if it I am still patiently waiting for

Coulomb Meter

Analog Computer

Wireless Geiger counter kit

Canon Power Adaptor ( making progress)

Wireless pH meter

Beermaker ...

This list really does go on and on

For whom the bell tolls

 Tolling the bell for the Late Queen 96 rings.  One every 20 seconds

National Mourning

 As the country is in National Mourning we have been remembering our meetings with the Royal Family. None of us had ever met the Queen but she is remembered in our hearts

Investing in more Pasco Equipment

Ordered the new @Pasco.scientific Wireless Geiger counter and sample holder. We have and older one but I thought it was time to go wireless and use this to bring more awareness of radiation to students. We await its arrival so we can test it out.

Still no power cable

 My only complaint with the great canon R5C is that it still can't get a power supply to use the camera in the studio without batteries. Its been on order for quite a while now and no sign of one part.

Projector

 

Not everyone's part of the video equipment, but we output the video to the large screen so that the audience can see what is going on in a live performance

Big Screen Set up

 Setting up a camera for the big screen. Instead of watching the view finder why not use the big screen to see what you get.

Organ Recital

Putting the organ up on the big screen. Using 5 cameras and overlays to make the organ recital experience more fun by watching the pedals and the keyboards
 

Filling up the car

 Just taking a couple of cameras and lights out to record an organ recital at a church a few miles away and put it up on the big Screen

AI Laboratory

 Plans for my new Laboratory? No Trying out AI generated images for thumbnails and backdrops and anything else I can think of. The images are unique and can be totally customised to the project in hand.

Thumbnail creation

 Sometimes thumbnail creation is difficult. Here it looks like several £20 notes in front of a meter. In fact the meter is 2.5m above the ground, and the camera is up in the air and I have to reach up as far as I can the hold the notes in the frame.

Theory into Practice

 

It's one thing to have a diagram of an experiment, but it is another to set it up and do it. We needed a can of propane small enough to weigh and make a difference but also a valve on it so we used a propane burner