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...
Tuesday, 17 December 2024

A Tripod Plate to Correct a Design Flaw of the Sony RX10iv. Photographic Adventures with a 3D-Printer. Part One

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The Sony RX10iv—or Mark 4 for those who can’t do Roman numerals—is an amazing camera in many ways and there is nothing else like it on the m...
Friday, 7 June 2024

Fitting a Røde VideoMic Me-L or -C with Furry Windshield to an iPhone in a case - with the help of a bit of plastic card

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Wind kills the audio of video recorded in the field. Fitting most microphones plus windshield quickly to a phone in a case is a pain. Some s...
Sunday, 26 May 2024

Sony RX10iv. Coping with the Tripod Bush — Modifying an L-Bracket Plate to fit a Peak Design Clutch Hand Strap

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The Sony RX10 Mark IV is an amazing camera in many ways and there is nothing else like it on the market. Although old in the tooth by modern...
Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Canon Legria HF G70 Camcorder for Wildlife? NO. Repeat NO

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 I gave my first impressions of the Canon Legria (Vixia in the US) HF G70 Camcorder in February 2023. I concentrated on image quality, noise...
Thursday, 14 December 2023

SONY RX10iv. Making Soft Release Buttons That Fit and Stay in Place

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I bought the Sony RX10iv mainly as a video camera. I assigned video on/off to the main shutter release button (the Movie button is small and...