Monthly Archives: January, 2010
Video of my coffee roaster in action
My roster in action movie just went on Youtube. It shows this roasting rig in action
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Lean simmering pork loin steak with tea and whiskey
Today I came up with an nice dish that I put together within 20 min from the things that I found around my kitchen.
5-6 lean pieaces of pork loin cut 1 cm thick
some extra virgin olive oil
pork loin cut in pieces about 1 cm think.
1-1.5 pounds of lean pork loin
1 ounce of Canadian Club whiskey
1 [...]
Learning the ropes on the Canon 7D
Silent shooting mode has to be set to “disable” if you want to synchronize an external flash with a 7D (as well as 5D MK2 apparently). It is a documented, but fairly obscure feature.
Live view gives interesting advantage for manual lenses. At 10x magnification it is possible to achieve very nice focus without having to [...]
Suction Clamp Camera Support
This is a camera support gadget that can be used to support a camera or a flash on any even surface. Glass and polished metal work fine with it. I use it to shoot from my car by attaching it to the driver-side window. This attachment makes my car into a camera support. More than [...]
Roasting Coffee at Home
I roast my own coffee. It is not really a choice. It is more a necessity, if you care about the drink. I tried to avoid this technically complicated endeavor. I drink coffee made in a French Press or in an Espresso machine. Both of these devices extract flavor from the beans intensely. And, as you might imagine, [...]
Neat tea infusor from Teaopia
Yesterday I picked up a Tea Master gadget from a Teaopia store.
It is an ingenious little thing that makes very good tea. The neat trick of the Tea Master is the fact that as liquid passes through the steeped leafs into a glass, it is filtered through the leafs and washes away all the flavor that [...]
Multiprocessor Race
It is pretty amazing to watch now our gadgets become computing superpowers. Early Canon dSLRs had two processors – one for autofocus and one for image processing. The 7D has one more image processor. It makes it three processors in one camera.
Now something really crazy – new Toshiba 3D TV has eight processors. It [...]
Vacation clothes shot with my octagon ringlight
This is another video episode shot with my Octagon Light design
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Canon 7D Experiences – 500 clicks
I am still in love with the 7D. The impression is a bit spoiled by the flash synchronization problem, but still, this is a very impressive camera. Two things continue bringing me joy – the way camera feels in my hands and shutter sound. I have to say that shutter sound is different from what [...]
Site move to curiousdrake.com
Today I moved my site to a dedicated domain. I am happy that I could get a .com domain for it. Dot COMs are getting scarce now. I think it is not possible to find available three letter combination already. I think four letter combinations are gone also. Curious Drake is mine for next five [...]