Earlier this year I got into playing around with Raspberry Pis and the official camera modules to monitor my 3d printer. About a month ago I published this python script that will let you live stream h264 directly to multiple browsers simultaneously from any raspberry pi equipped with an official camera module. At the time I wrote the script i had only experimented with the official V2 camera module as that was the latest module supported by the picamera api. I’ve been wanting to try out the HQ camera since it was released earlier this year, so I posted a question on the official Raspberry Pi forum about the compatibility with picamera, and was assured by an engineer it should work fine as long as i allocate a little more ram to the gpu.
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I have a lot of photography and videography gear that uses AA batteries. I prefer AAs over the built in Lithium batteries a lot of gear comes with now, because you can get them anywhere and they can be shared across devices. I’ve owned a lot of different AA battery holders/containers over the years, but I’ve never really been happy with any of them.
I’ve faced a few issue with holders I’ve owned, but only two are of any real consequence. The first issue, is that they are almost always a flat or rectangular container that requires a dedicated spot in my camera bag. The second and more annoying issue, is that ever single container only allowed the batteries to be stored in one orientation, usually with the positive contact facing up.
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A macro shot of a #10-32 button head cap screw!
One of the issues with using a DSLR to shoot video, is that to get really good audio you need a few accessories. Those accessories can get unwieldy at times, so most people get a cage to mount their camera in and their accessories to. I personally don’t like cages, because they don’t allow you to quickly take your camera out of them. Thus, I decided to make a custom cheese plate that would mount to the top of my pre-amp. The cheese plate allows me to use an Arca-Swiss style quick release plate which allows me to access my camera very quickly.
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Some shots of Jillian and I’s quick trip to Washington D.C. early last week.
