Repairing my vintage Tannoy Monitor Golds
I decided to have a go at repairing the HF tweeters unit in my vintage Tannoy Monitor Golds. It was a tricky old job. More pictures to follow.
A few snaps of my new, old Tamron 90mm macro lens c/w matching 2x teleconverter. For top notch macro work, I’ve yet to find anything – certainly not anything affordable, to beat this old thing. With the matching teleconverter, it does genuine 1:1. On a Micro-Tour-Thirds camera, it means the entire width of an unedited…
The Shabby Trabi. Garf Technology Christmas card 2008.
Whilst I am deeply sceptical about artificial “intelligence”, I’m also having quite a lot of fun with it too. Over the last eighteen months, I’ve gone from generating header images for blog articles, ugly images of unpleasant politicians and surreal greetings cards, to creating entire virtual shoots. Today, it also serves as a serious learning…
“Scanning all done.” 2005 Christmas card, by Zsuzsanna Dora Majlati.
Visited my mother in Southampton today. It was a warm day so I stepped out on the balcony. This has magnificent views to the west, overlooking the River Itchen. It is also pretty close to Southampton’s famous Cobden Bridge. This is a major road and pedestrian bridge crossing the River Itchen. It forms part of…
We all have our favourite methods of data backup. Certainly DVD is a good archiving and distribution medium. But for routine backup, I look for reliability, low cost, ease of use, high-speed, high capacity and redundancy – so I am not reliant on just one device. One of my favourite methods is a complete off-site…