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DIY Amateur TV Receiver!

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2008-06-26 15:30:13 by max in zedomax.com
...amateur TV receiver This is a 1.2 GHz microwave antenna made from regular 6 household air duct. It picks up a signal from our new Amateur TV repeater. (The repeater will take a TV signal from anywhere in the local county, and retransmits it to everywhere in the local county.) The antenna looks like a giant flashlight via make air duct ,...
 
Tags: amateur tv, ghz microwave antenna, antenna, amateur tv repeater, household air, household air duct, microwave antenna, local county, tv signal
 
 
 
 
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1976: The Canon AE-1 Ignites The Amateur Photography World

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2008-04-03 15:42:12 by james in Retro Thing
...amateur SLR camera. It appeared in 1976, sporting clever microprocessor controlled automatic exposure. Around 5 million AE-1s were produced, helping to give the Canon brand a much needed boost against arch-rival Nikon However, the truly revolutionary thing about the AE-1 was the way it was built. Although it looks like a hefty metal device,...
 
Tags: ae-1, canon, canon ae-1, versatile ae-1 program, hefty metal device, extremely capable slr, canon brand, habits die hard, amateur slr camera
 
 
 
 
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Amateur historian claims da Vinci swiped helicopter designs from the Chinese

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2008-07-29 15:49:46 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...amateur historian whose new book 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance claims (among other things) that Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of flying machines were cribbed from two-dimensional drawings presented to Pope Eugenius IV by a Chinese ambassador. To support his argument, Menzies publishes...
 
Tags: chinese, pre-1430 chinese books, menzies, menzies pursues, drawings, gavin menzies, two-dimensional drawings, chinese ambassador, vinci
 
 
 
 
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Canon EOS 50D DSLR for sports and wildlife shooting

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2008-08-26 06:19:11 by dhiram in Fareastgizmos.com
...amateur digital SLR photography, the EOS 50D Digital SLR Camera with 15.1 megapixel resolution and Canon's new DIGIC 4 image processor. Designed to offer extraordinary quality and image control for the advanced photographer with a passion for the art, the Canon EOS 50D Digital SLR camera includes an expanded ISO range, improved noise...
 
Tags: digital slr cameras, digital slr, camera, camera bag, eos 40d camera, canon digital slr, canon, eos, sensor
 
 
 
 
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Canon EOS 50D Official: 15-Megapixel Prosumer DSLR Is First With Digic 4 Processor [DSLRs]

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2008-08-26 00:01:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...amateur digital SLR photography, the EOS 50D Digital SLR Camera with 15.1 megapixel resolution and Canon's new DIGIC 4 image processor. Designed to offer extraordinary quality and image control for the advanced photographer with a passion for the art, the Canon EOS 50D Digital SLR camera includes an expanded ISO range, improved noise...
 
Tags: camera, camera bag, eos 40d camera, 40d, canon, sensor, cmos image sensor, digital slr cameras, digital
 
 
 
 
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UK Politician Calls Police War On Photography "Daft"

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2008-03-13 05:15:54 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...Amateur Photographer to assist by providing details of relevant cases, and calls the harassment of photographers who catch CCTV cameras in their pictures "daft", pointing out that almost every public building in the UK is "festooned with closed circuit television cameras This case shows just how important it is that politicians know about...
 
Tags: photography, parliament amateur photographer, cameras, austin mitchell, photography code, mitchell, amateur photographer, cctv cameras, police
 
 
 
 
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60 years of schmalfilm magazine

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2008-02-06 09:45:59 by james grahame in Retro Thing
...amateur movie magazine schmalfilm is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a massive 160 page Jubilee special edition. It features a retrospective covering 60 years of film technology, along with some of the best articles from the magazine's back catalog The magazine - helmed by editor Juergen Lossau - has seen subscriptions increase by 45%...
 
Tags: schmalfilm magazine, magazine, film, amateur film, film technology, german cousin, 16mm, germany, 16mm cameras
 
 
 
 
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Getty Images Wants To Buy Your Flickr Photos

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2008-07-11 10:20:21 by Luke Anderson in OhGizmo!
...amateur photographers. It seems that Getty Images has taken notice, and wants to pay some of those people for their excellent works Getty has entered into a partnership with Flickr to comb their database of images in search for pieces to license. The photographers would then be asked to participate in their program, which would compensate...
 
Tags: getty images, getty, images, getty purchases, photographers, amateur photographers, flickr, getty pays, amateur photographer
 
 
 
 
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Video Making Equipment you can make easily at home

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2007-07-06 07:39:00 by Rafa Minuesa in Video Gadget Inspector
...amateur, then try using this unique cam stabilizer that will give you silky smooth footage. Believe it or not it not only provides a lower Centre of Gravity for your camcorder but also compensates for yaw, pitch and roll just like the professional units but this one will only cost you around $30 or less See the tutorial on how to build this...
 
Tags: stabilizer, diy camera stabilizer, camera, original camera mount, camera mount, unique cam stabilizer, shoulder-mount eng camera, camera stabilizer, rig