I finally got around to hacking a Philips SPC 900 to enable it to take long exposure images suitable for astrophotography. The modifications are fairly well known. The approach I took is a mixture of the http://www.boltonastro.org.uk/Members%5FArea/Projects/spc880conversion.pdf and http://www.yesyes.info/index.php/diy/philips-spc900-webcam-lx-and-ampoff-mod/ . The circuit between both approaches is roughly the same, I followed the circuit in the [...]
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Hacking a webcam for long exposure astrophotography
December 30, 2011
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Dublin at night
January 8, 2008
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Its been a while since I posted anything here so heres a few shots that I took recently around Dublin. Trinity College Famine Statues Custom House
Indoor torch photography
February 25, 2007
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Recently I bought a 5 million candle power torch for photography. The intention was to use it to ‘paint’ nighttime photos. However today I thought I’d try it out to light a boquet of flowers. This shot was taken of a single rose in a pint glass. In order to get the dark [...]
So if you’ve any money go up to the park
August 11, 2006
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Last Saturday I took my first trip to Dublin Zoo in several years, and its improved vastly from my last visit. The animals have much more room to roam about than they had on my previous visits, and work is continuing to improve facilities further. A Zoo provides great photo opportunities. One of my favourite [...]
