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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Flash Drive Hippo
Once upon a time I was bored. The boredom brought me to a store where a bought a tiny soft toy hippo. I went home, disemboweled the tiny hippo and implanted a USB flash drive into its belly.

Now I have a do-it-yourself USB flash drive hippo. Not really practical but looks cool.

Unfortunately, the flash drive inside can store one gigabyte only. I'm thinking of a more advanced version.


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The Right Way to Eat Surströmming

Taken with my semi-vintage camera system consisting of Canon EOS 50D camera body, Asahi Pentax SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4 lens mounted using M42 screw mount adapter and a Soviet flash from the 80s called Photon connected to PC sync port. Apparently I wasn't looking for the easiest solution but the challenge itself was the main point.
The trickiest part was holding the flash off the body in one hand to bounce it of the wall behind me while holding the camera in another hand trying to keep it steady so that the objects won't get out of focus since the lens is a manual focus one and won't just refocus once I press the shutter button half way.
Another tricky thing was to get the flash fire at the right power in order not to overexpose the photo taken with almost wide-open aperture. I had to fire the flash first, count to three and shoot before the capacitor inside the flash gets fully charged. It took me awhile before I mastered the trick I've invented.
Useless but makes me proud of myself. And it's always fun to play with vintage photo equipment. There's really something about it. Something truly exciting.
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