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ByGarfFolks considering remote shooting via smartphone may wish to experiment with Pavel Khlebovich’s “IP Webcam”. Basically it’s an amazingly clever and full-featured app that allows you to control the camera(s) on your smartphone with a remote computer, using standard internet protocols. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam I initially got into it because it plays nicely with Zoneminder. Thus any…
Freebie | Journal | Linux | Photography | Technology | Virtual backdrop | WallpaperVirtual backdrops and wallpapers
ByGarfFreebies to beat those lockdown blues This is a collection of virtual backdrops and wallpapers that you may download, manipulate and enjoy, for free. These images were created by capturing and saving a large number snap-shots of an open source music visualisation application for GNU/Linux called ProjectM – not to be confused with a 2008…
The Big Russian – my MTO 1000 mm catadioptric lens
ByGarfThis is by far my largest and longest focal-length lens. Rumour has it that the MTO 1000 mm catadioptric lens was “standard issue” to KGB surveillance operatives during the Cold War Era. MTO itself also has an interesting history. Seems it started out by making the huge glass reflectors for Russian anti-aircraft arc-lights. It made…
Digital pictures | General | Journal | Photography | StudioExperimenting with Fujian 35mm f/1.7 CCTV lens
ByGarfExperimenting with Fujian 35mm f/1.7 CCTV lens. This is a cheap £10.00 lens off eBay. It is designed for CCTV. However with a simple £1.00 “C” to µ4/3 adaptor it fits nicely and works well with my little Lumix DMC GX7. These are some of the results… Actually, I’m a big fan of the…
New Years Day in Pécs
ByGarfSpent Christmas with my girlfriend’s folks and it snowed quite hard. So I thought I’d get out and grab a few snaps of Pécs before it melts.
Digital pictures | General | Journal | Nature | Photography | Road Trip | TravelogueNew Forest Otter Sanctuary
ByGarfToday we took a road trip to the Otter Sanctuary near Longdown in the New Forest.
