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This is my blog about creating a startup LED flashlight business. I'm a designer, fabricator, and strategist and I'm passionate about making ideas real. I believe that products are about people, that they should be built to last, deliver real value, and that we need to do a better job than we have in the recent past.

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Tinkering and a new camera

Welp, after 10 years of dithering I finally bought a digital SLR camera. I thought this would also be a good opportunity to show you something I've been tinkering with in the lab...the "copper head." Is that to literal? I got some new "N bin" MCEs in stock; they are the brightest bin of MCE in existance and costs nearly double compared to a "regular" MCE. In honor of that I decided to go crazy and make a solid copper head. It's immensely heavy and looks fantastic paired with the raw aluminum body. I've been carrying it my pocket for a while and it's starting to patina nicely.

Creative huh? 
Hopefully I'll be able to live up to the Nikon D7000. As you can see, I'm reaching already and had to come up with a fancy setting :) This SLR also shoots HD video (that's foreshadowing) and now I can put the lenses I have back into service. I have a Nikon film camera that has been gathering dust, along with the lenses, so I'm pretty excited to give them a new life, paired to the new D-SLR. Okay, okay. One more photo.

That's a real reflection. The light is sitting on a sheet of "60% lighting white" acrylic. 
So, have anything you want to see in a YouTube video? Let me know!
Posted by Jason at 1:27 AM
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3 comments:

  1. StanleyJuly 17, 2011 at 11:31 AM

    Copperhead is beautiful.. nice color and contrast and appealing design. Nice work! Good photography too! :>)

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  2. CherylJuly 17, 2011 at 3:35 PM

    Very handsome and classy.

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  3. Ben humphreyJuly 18, 2011 at 7:28 AM

    Welcome to the revolution Jason! And by your camera selection, it looks like this one, indeed, will be televised.

    Ben

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