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Gemma doesn’t seem to have picked up on this one yet, but a while ago Ben and I were talking in MSN, or Yahoo, and he showed me this link to a woman (she is a Graphic Designer) in the USís blog, and...

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Some Kind Person…

While at the Welshchurch for the Woodhouse Players’ Mother Goose, some ¿wonderful and kind? took it as there right to help themselves to my Camera bag, containing all my camera equipment; as well as...

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Nikon or Canon

After the kind person stole my camera equipment; the police said that they have closed the case due to lack of evidence; I am not sure if I should come to the conclusion that I could steal something in...

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Books, and how to get some Free

One of the things I love about Weather Spoons Pubs other than the cheap real ale; is that they have a large collection of rather geeky books that most people overlook; however a few of us; tend to scan...

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Lomography – Sprocket Rocket

A while ago I bought my self a Sprocket Rocket camera, the Sprocket Rocket is a 35 mm film camera that packages an ultra wide angle lens, that allows you to capture the image on the whole width of the...

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Walk along the Regents Canal – Camden to Battlebridge Basin

Leaving Camden Loupie, JD, and I walked along the Regents Canal towards Battlebridge Basin; starting at Camden Lock.Going away from Kings Cross was the Pirates Boat; and a grey 55foot Live aboardsaw a...

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East London Line

One of those interesting PDF’s you pick up while moving around is the 2000 issue of the London Underground Railway – Junction Diagrams book. This is one of those documents that most people who use the...

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JET Torus Hall

During the last JET Shutdown, Mark Woollard mounted a digital camera inside the JET Torus Hall to record the working activities of the Shutdown. Over the course of the Shutdown the camera captured...

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Number 8 – Head of the Thames

[photonav url='http://camcrew.co.uk/uploads/2011-07-02_SOT.jpg'] A while ago Loupie and I went to Trewsbury Mead to look for the source of the Thames; Thames Head There’s a little cup in the Cotswold...

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ROV – Part 3: Control System

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...

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ROV – Part 4: Vision System

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...

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New camera

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,...

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Task 44 – Complete a 365 day Photo Challenge

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...

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Book 1: The Somersetshire Coal Canal

Roger Halse’s “The Somersetshire Coal Canal – A Second Pictorial Journey” “This new volume provides readers with an in depth look into the Somersetshire Coal Canal. The previous volume of old...

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Book 2: Fox Talbot

John Hannavy’s ”Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, ‘Father of Modern Photography’, 1800 -18772” Fox Talbot is universally recognised as the father of modern photography. His...

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Automatic Panoramic Head – Part 1: Press the button

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...

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New Pet

On the way back from the Waterfront Pub in Pewsey last night, b0atg1rl and I came across a young magpie sat on the tow path; which ended up falling in the cut. Fishing the poor lil thing out we then...

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Problems with my 365 :(

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...

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Automatic Panoramic Head – Part 2: Move the Camera

Following on from Part One, I have come across a number of ways of changing the focus ring via a servo, and if I was to use a Telephoto (Zoom) Lense on an SLR (Single Lens Reflex) Camera The Focal...

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Automatic Panoramic Head – Part 3: View the Camera

I have been looking for a replacement for my D70, I asked the following on Facebook: Recommendations on a camera; I am thinking Canon so I can flash it with CHDK, doesn’t need to be a full DSLR as I...

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