Category: Gear

Benro Travel Angel Tripods

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While I do really like my Induro CT213 I am finding it really heavy when doing long, steep hikes.  I’ve been shopping for a lighter alternative and finally made up my mind on one.

I’ve just ordered the C1691T Benro Travel Angel tripod.  I am most impressed with the BO Dual Action ball-head. For being small it can carry a ton of weight. It held a Nikkor 80-200mm lens mounted to a D300s without sagging at all! That’s what sold me.

Bumped: DIY Intervalometer for Nikon, Canon, and Pentax DSLRs

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Achim Sack a fan of time lapse photography and tinkering has created and revised his Intervalometer. For those who like to hack and tinker this might be right up your street.

Features:

  • No power supply needed: The circuit “steals” in the operating current (only 10µA at 5V and 2.5µA at 3.3V) from the signal lines of the camera
  • Interval adjustable from 0.4 seconds to about 18 minutes
  • No controls, setting of the intervall via “teach-in” from the camera
  • Ultra-portable: the circuitry fits into the housing of a 2.5mm stereo plug
  • Component cost: 87 ct (July 2010)

The details, and “how to” links are here.

H/T  How-To-Geek

Update:  Reader Stargazer 95050 emails,
The link to that cheap timelapse controller was fascinating. $2 for that !! It sounds too good to be true — tough technically he is right. !!
There is a catch of course : http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharpshutter/5918737334/

Bumped: Capture NX2 Nikon’s Photo Editing Software

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If you’re looking for software that will handle your new Nikon camera’s RAW files take a look at Nikon’s very own Capture NX2! It will read your RAW files perfectly.

Choose your region and download the free trial here.

Get lessons/tutorials here.

Looking for a free option to convert your RAW files with limited editing options download Nikon’s ViewNX 

Update: Reader Andy emails, ” Regarding Capture NX2 — I think it has several unique features worth mentioning.
The noise reduction is excellent.
Also the dust-off and spot healing are very helpful if you forgot to clean your sensor
Reading all camera parameters instead of just a few
Changes are stored in the original RAW file but can be reversed, and you can have several post-processing versions stored in the same file
The downside — no one else but Nikon can read thos PP changes made to the NEF file”