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Engineering for the People - Radio Triggers

Engineering for the People - Radio Triggers

One of the great possibilities the current digital age is the revolution in photography and off-camera flash, an often over-looked aspect is the development of radio triggers to activate off-camera flashes. There are currently two known projects from non-corporate entities developing radio triggers for off-camera flashes, RadioPopper, and the open source Strobit Trigger project.

The RadioPopper [...]

Digital Style - The Joey L - Jill G - Dave Hill Look

The following is a collection of thoughts on Digital Style, an elusive element of Digital Imaging, an extension of Photography. The author has already admitted during our last project meeting that he has no style, nor any particular story to tell – which made him the logical choice for this article. This is a Style piece, and logic therefore need not apply.

Ricoh GRD - Tokyo Strobist and Shoestring Lighting

Ricoh GRD - Tokyo Strobist and Shoestring Lighting

There are many thing to do in Tokyo, but on a Monday night after riding the metro one needs to relax.  One of my favorite relaxing activities is the impromptu self-portrait session with a digital camera.  This session focused on using off-camera flash with the Ricoh GRD.  But here’s the problem, while checking in for [...]

Toy Vault

Toy Vault

In his keynote talk at the 2006 EMPA PhD Symposium, 1991 Nobel Chemistry winner Richard Ernst said that if you want your children to grow up with a creative mind, then they should grow up in an old house full of rooms to explore filled with things to discover. It’s cool that my parents [...]