About ZENs, Lowthers, ZEROs hot-wired…. for those who might be interested in a lot of electronic mumbo-jumbo and technical details. This is about directly hard-wiring a good CD player to the Decware ZEN single-ended triode monoblocs [the original SV83M Signature amps] and the amps are in turn hard-wired to the Lowther PM4As [in their spiral horn-loaded [...]
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testing.. testing…
Posted in Amman Rashid, DIY, flash, lighting, Nikon, Photography, Strobist, Wireless on Mar 24th, 2010
Volunteered to shoot some hand-made jewelry for a catalog and as promotional material for a friend. Never have done “product photography” so this is a first. Made a DIY light-box with a cardboard carton, with 3 cutouts [one each on either side and one on top] with translucent white paper taped over the cutouts. Inner [...]
Bits & Pieces
Posted in camera, DIY, Equipment, Modification, Photography on Mar 7th, 2007
Katz Eye screen. Have always liked Nikon’s “old” style focusing screens as in the old classic SLRs… and have never liked the “modern high tech” ones in their DSLRs. Did a search and came across the KatzEye Optics. Just installed one of their custom made screens. WOW! This screen is just what I wanted. Split [...]
There was no way to bring my lovely monster folded-horn cabinets [modified Jericho] from our large house to this new apartment…. so I did a search for “compact” horn cabinets … the research resulted in these flat spiraled horns. From the pictures at the design site, these horns looked nice and compact. LOL! It took [...]