For the 5th night in a row I was up till 3am so with nothing else to do I end up coming to my favourite site (yes, it's this one - I never sign out). So I play with Google images...cor what a sad life I have. Then I am up at 7am feeling fresh as a daisy.

Anywho...the reason for the orange hair is cos you have been fried...try it, frazzle yourself. Dark hair goes orange, blonde hair, like mine, gets nuked and smells of BBQ'd dog.

What is this thread about again::::

Paul

Using the reflection in the bubbles, I masterfully recreated your shed using the highest technology available:

100 plastic washing-up bottles
40 rolls of sticky back plastic

I had to get an adult to do the cutting out as I'm not trusted with scissors.

Then once I sprayed it in different shades of brown, I painstakingly took a photo of it using a pinhole camera. When the photograph was ready and dry from processing, I scanned it then plonked it on here.

See all this modern technology


Ho hum....I can see it being one of those days!

Paul

Think I shall stop there, I have a very twisted sense of humour

I once made a remote control for my Nikon F301. I looked at the connections and noticed that contact was made by a pin and the metal surroundings. I took the servos out of an old radio control car and made a small box that velcroed onto the camera. Then with my radio controller I could take a picture using the forward stick. It had a huge range, half a mile in fact.

I was 18 when I made that, whilst a YTS student at college.
Wouldn't have a clue how to copy that now, it would have been darn useful though

Amin, good luck to you mate. If you do pull it off, which I am sure you will, you could mass produce it for all us Pentax Users - at a small fee of course


Paul

Amin grossly overestimated the voltage required to power his trigger, subsequently he wiped out the whole neighbourhood





Paul

Personally I would buy an SLR or a dirt cheap DSLR cos unless you are an electronics wizard you could seriously fry your camera....eggs and bacon on stand by!

Cos electronics



Plus camera




Plus Shed





Equals




Edit: The usual dodgy spelling

I would never recommend Tungsten/continuous lights to anyone. As people have said above, they get extremely hot in a short space of time. Although it worse for people having their portrait taken, it's also very bad for the photographer.

Continuous lighting is cheap, granted, but you can get a decent flash kit for just that little bit more and it's so much more reliable...plus no heat, even with the modelling lamps on.


Paul

With me, it used to be a case of, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" and I would never use anything bigger than 2GB. Unfortunately 2GB is not enough anymore and nor is 4GB. So now I only use 8GB. I buy new cards every 4-6 months. So in a months time when I buy my next cards I may get 16GB.

Oh and I have a special case for all my cards, I think it was freebie from a magazine. All my cards go in there and then it's zipped up in it's own pocket in my bag.


Paul

I often go to another site and yes the users their seem like a very wild and agressive bunch.
It's nice to come back here and fall into the safety net of Pentax User. There are some moaners here, like me, but I feel we all pull together when we need a bit of TLC......

Oh throw me a sick bag

Paul

Do you mean the Microdrive? They fitted in the CF type II slot
Apparently you can still get them

Paul

Oh and a slight change of subject, I'm after a job lot of USB memory flash drives. They must be 512mb or 128mb. I can't find them in the shops anywhere and the ones I have seen on ebay are at a very silly price, eg, 99p for the item and £4 for postage and that's in the UK.

Thanks

Paul