Observing the Natural World: Photography, Video, Binoculars and Telescopes

Photography has entertained, informed and infuriated me for 70 years. However, I am not a photographer. I use video and still photography to record and illustrate my observations of the natural world. In this blog I also comment on optical equipment used for viewing wildlife and on the changes in photography from the 1950s to the present day

Monday, 2 March 2026

Making a Slide/Film Copier for the Nikon Z8 Camera with Nikkor Z MC 105 mm Macro Lens

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I designed and built a 3D-printed slide and film strip copier because I could find nothing on the market that was sufficiently versatile or ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Photographic Adventures with a 3D Printer. Part 6: Groundpod

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I found and printed this excellent design by 'fluefisker' for a ground pod on the MakerWorld website HERE . I realised that its bott...
Friday, 11 July 2025

Photographic Adventures with a 3D Printer. Part 5: Adapting the Peak Design Capture Clip with Pro Pad to a Sam Browne-type belt design—while not losing your trousers

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The three 3d-printed plates to fit Peak Design's Capture Clip with ProPad One of the top plates is used , depending on the width of the ...
Friday, 4 July 2025

Photographic Adventures with a 3D Printer. Part 4: Adapting the Peak Design Capture Clip to Attach a Camera Strap

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I like the design of Peak Design’s Capture Clip and in a few situations, on a rucksack strap for example, it is useful as it stands. However...
Sunday, 18 May 2025

Photographic Adventures with a 3D Printer. Part 3: Window and Table Quadrapod for time-lapse and other videos

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There are times when a tripod is utterly useless. One of them is when trying to make wide-angle time-lapse videos from an open window. You s...
Wednesday, 8 January 2025

An Adapter to Connect a Peak Design Clip Plate to the Sony RX10iv Camera. Photographic Adventures with a 3D-Printer. Part Two

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As I explained in Part One of this series, the Sony RX10iv has a serious design flaw in the strength and positioning of its tripod bush. I d...
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Malcolm Peaker
Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1996, Malcolm Peaker is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A graduate of the University of Sheffield (BSc, DSc) and the University of Hong Kong (PhD, Hon. DSc), he was Director of the Hannah Research Institute and Hannah Professor in the University of Glasgow, Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London, Chairman of the, British Nutrition Foundation and a member of the Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Advisory Committee.
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