Despite the icebergs that are still looming off the coast we have managed to pull off a couple of good days. Imagine no snow fell on May 24th. Well here is probably my last shot of an iceberg and my first of many sunny days (cross your fingers) as we dive into Spring.
— Warning… Geeky Camara Tech post —
Well I finially made my remote shutter for my Canon XT. Sure, I could have ordered one from China for 99 cents.. but where is the fun in that??
This is super easy to make and includes a shutter button, AF button and Shutter Switch for blub mode. This makes all night photos pretty much shake free (depending on your tripod of course)
Materials -
Stereo Switch (2.5)
Wire
Soldering Iron
Solder
2 Buttons
1 one way switch
Old can or some kind of container
Electrical Tape
The camaras funtions actually work by shorting the ground off the left and right channels. So you can play around with shorting the connections to see which channel does what to the camara. You will soon find out that shorting one triggers the AF and the other triggers the shutter button.
Now just follow this advanced schematics I did to solder your connections together!!
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So thats it. Just make sure only the right connections are touching and you should be in business. The following picture is the one I made, and is actually taking that picture!
Give it a shot.
-Mike
Long time no post! I think it had someting to do with 2 weeks of rain or something??
Anyway, last evening I took a little hike down around Quidi Vidi to get some pics of the huge iceberg. Turns out I hated most of my iceberg pics becasue there was so much more going on there with the mist and great waves!
Here are a few from yesterday.
-Mike
Saturday after a day of tutoring the sun decided to shine. I was heading home and keeping an eye on Signal Hill as it went in and out of the fog. I had heard that we had an enormous amount of iceberg activity and wanted some pics but the harbour did not look promising. I checked out www.icebergfinder.com and saw bergs were all over the coast. So with the saddest of eyes I convinced my other half to go for a drive. We headed down the Southern Shore with the fog closing in on us. With the determination of a race car driver he headed into Witless Bay where I got some nice shots. I was talking to a local and he said to go to Tors Cove which we did (pics to come later) We saw 7 in Witless Bay and 15 in Tors Cove.
Depending on the angle this berg looked like a Rhino.
I didn’t really have puppy fever until I got to spend some camera time with Aqua’s Luna. She is an awesome puppy, 11 weeks old, the same age as Angus was when I first picked him up. Sadly I cannot possibly handle another puppy right now so I will have to regulate myself to just stalking Newf puppies with my camera!!
So here is Luna.
