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Airplane photography - 1920s

Here’s a great 400+ page book (free) for download from the 1920’s on airplane photography -
Airplane Photography - Google Book Search - Link.

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Tupperware Flash

I like this idea and I want to make one bigger. (Looking through drawers to find giant tupperware)

The inside of the pink part is sprayed with silver paint. Then I cut a rectangular hole in the bottom, folded back two flaps, and used electrical tape around them to hold a cheapie Hanimex flash in place. The diffuser cuts a couple of stops off the light output, but with faster film I haven’t had a problem. - Link

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Camera gun & gun ruler

Gun shaped camera from Popular Mechanics 1938… - Link.

Gun shaped ruler - Link.

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MAKE - Favorite Flickr groups

A MAKE reader wrote in and asked which groups at Flickr do we belong to, here are mine - post your faves in the comments too!

MAKE (join the MAKE group! only 60 more until we hit 2,000!) - Link.
CRAFT - Link.
Hacks - Link.
MAKE Japan - Link.
Craft Rooms - Link.
Stick Figures in Peril - Link.
get crafty! - Link.
100 years old - Link.
Workshops ETC. - Link.
mid-century illustrated - Link.
Wartime Forties in Print [VINTAGE] - Link.
Graffiti Research Lab - Link.
steampunk - Link.
Vintage hobby books - Link.
Adafruits - Link.
Fun with DEADLY ELECTRICITY ! - Link.
Altoids Hacks - Link.
Abusing Personal Technology - Link.
Electronic Prn - Link.
OPML file of our groups’ discussions (this seems new?) - Link.

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Flickr groups - Link.
Recent discussions in your groups - Link

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More photos from balloons…

Check out Peter’s balloon rig… (the photos have notes, roll over them to check out the components) - Link & info.
Related:

Balloon Aerial Photography - Link.
Human lifting helium balloon - Link.

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Balloon Aerial Photography

Yahoo is wrapping up their time capsule project and then archiving it all with the Smithsonian. Time Capsule Camp was a gathering of media makers and some cool workshops that I got to attend yesterday.

While there, I tried sending up my kite aerial photography rig, but there wasn’t enough wind to get the rig in the air. Plan B went into effect and I got lots of help from folks including my friend 3ric to gather a ton of balloons and put the rig up that way.

There are a few differences between kite and balloon photography. There is an interesting thing that happens when you hold onto a string with balloons on it. While you’re letting it out, it goes up, but as soon as you put tension on it, any breeze at all will push it down. It’s a trigonometry thing that resulted in […]

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The Micropolitan Museum

From the the Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimeter, The Micropolitan Museum! - “For several centuries artists have depicted the human figure, still-lifes, landscapes or non-figurative motives. One subject has been widely neglected all those years: Micro organisms!
The Micropolitan Museum finally exhibits these often overlooked works of art which are only visible with the aid of the microscope. Curator Wim van Egmond has collected the finest microscopic masterpieces nature has ever produced during eons of natural selection.” [via] - Link.
Merismopedia, a remarkable shaped Cyano-bacteria (blue-green algae) - from the the Bacteria Basement.
Related:

Biomedical Image awards 2006 gallery - Link.
MACROdream - close up photo community - Link.
Science @ MAKE - Link.

MAKE 07:

Backyard Biology - Hack your plants, extract your DNA, 70’s soapbox saga, build a videocam rocket, and head-mounted water cannon. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

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Time lapse photo of a plane taking off…

Airliners.net has an incredible time lapse photo of a UPS plane taking off, it looks like a road in the sky… - “N306UP (cn 27759/622) Cleared for takeoff with a southbound turnout. Runway number and piano keys visible! [Canon 20D, 50mm f/1.8 MK-II] Taken @ Des Moines - International (DSM / KDSM)” [via] - Link.
Related:

Escargot Grand Prix - DIY Time lapse snail races - Link.
Time lapse plants - Link.
Time lapse projects @ MAKE - Link.

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Long exposure photo of a plane taking off…

Airliners.net has an incredible long exposure photo of a UPS plane taking off, it looks like a road in the sky… - “N306UP (cn 27759/622) Cleared for takeoff with a southbound turnout. Runway number and piano keys visible! [Canon 20D, 50mm f/1.8 MK-II] Taken @ Des Moines - International (DSM / KDSM)” [via] - Link.
Related:

Escargot Grand Prix - DIY Time lapse snail races - Link.
Time lapse plants - Link.
Time lapse projects @ MAKE - Link.

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The Cloud Appreciation Society (photo gallery)

The Cloud Appreciation Society (yup, there is one) has gallery with over 1,800 stunning photos of every type of cloud - [via] - Link.
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Homemade camera ultra-wide medium format camera

Check out Zaphod Beeblebrox’s awesome homemade ultra-wide medium format camera (and the photos it takes!)… - “My home-made 6×9 super-wide camera. Rigid-body, 47mm f/5.6 Schneider MC Super-Angulon in a No. 0 shutter. With a Mamiya RB67 back…The helical focusing mount is made by Schneider - the distance scale is calibrated for the 47mm Super Angulons. You can buy the mount for some other lenses too. I scavanged the Graflock adapter and some other bits from an old American 6×9 rangefinder camera called Graflex XL. The rest I fabricated myself at a friend’s machine shop in Richmond. It was inspired by the Hasselblad SWC. To use, it is not as nice as the SWC, but I did some comparison shots, and most people who saw them thought that the SA is sharper than the 38 Biogon.” [via] - Link.
More:
Camera projects, how-tos and mods - Link.
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Sneak preview - High speed photography MAKE video podcast

Bre and I were in the same city for once and we filmed some video for an upcoming MAKE video podcast on high speed photography, we used the MAKE high speed photography kit - about & article.
Here are a few photos from the night!
Above, a rose frozen with liquid nitrogen, then smashed… Gothy!

A balloon frozen with liquid nitrogen… it shrinks, then expands back when it warms up.

DIY laser scope on a dart gun.

Dart gun in action with laser scope.

Popping a balloon with the dart gun.
More soon!

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John Cabrer Beats NASA To The 3D Sun

John Cabrer wrote me to tell me about his 3D sun photo. Get your 3D glasses on and check it out!

Science Daily has an article today on how NASA has scheduled a lauch of two space craft which are to take the “FIRST EVER” 3D pictures of the sun. I beat them to it using archive images from SOHO and Anaglyph software. With a wider time separation, you can get a really pronounced 3d effect.

Here are the two pics he used taken a few hours apart. Here are the bigger images that John sent in, check out the software and do it yourself!

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