Ptownkid
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Unreal. This is a fantastic thread Chunger and you have done a wonderful job with both the detail and the quality of the pictures.
Excellent, excellent work!!!
Excellent, excellent work!!!
I was really hoping that you would have said, I am using the mobile phone camera in my nokia and a few torcheschunger said:canidoit said:Those pics really show how great the unit look!
I didn't think these units look that great until I have seen your pics.
Are you using proper lighting and also photo retouching on the pics? What camera are you using?
Thanks, I do the best I can with what I have. You'd be shocked how cheap my setup is.
I'm mostly running some old, obsolete '90's vintage Nikon SB28 flashes and I have one Alien Bees monolight. . . a couple of umbrellas and some Alien Bees Cybersync radio triggers.
For camera, I'm just running a bottom of the barrel Canon Rebel XTi with a 17-55 f2.8 lens.
For the set shots, I'm using some cardboard boxes, pieces of paper, painter's tape to make something that resembles a light box, and found some paper from an old drawing pad to make a "seamless white" backdrop. . . and I'm using those 3 old Nikon flashes. For the typical "in progress" photos, I use 2 umbrellas cross light and the Alien Bees monolight to blast my ceiling for fill.
I had rented 60mm and 100mm macro lenses for my friend's product shoot.
I've been contemplating upgrading to a "proper" camera and lighting setup and periodically go online, spec and price rig. Just haven't had enough paying gigs or potential gigs to justify the purchase yet, so I run what I have and try to squeeze the most I can from it.
chunger said:Well, on to the next thing I guess. I picked up another VP26, another VP312 kit, and a pair of Igor's F76 51X 1176 kits to try out next. Better get my PSU built soon
What fun stuff come January! I'm searching for a pair of nice EQ's to build and I should be good to go for a while.
Good news on the VP312DI!chunger said:finally got to power up the 2 boards. . . good news is the VP312DI is up and running great. . . bad news is the VP26 isn't running. I'll have to wait for some holiday madness to pass before looking more into it. Luckily I have a lot of images to refer back to. I suspect highly that I buggered the push switches (sw2, sw3, sw4) when I tried to de-solder/re-solder.
I may have to hit up a friend to help me trace and diagnose.
chunger said:Ok. . . good news is the VP26 is working. I don't think there was anything wrong with the board even though I re-flowed the push switch solder joints. I installed the APP2050E op amp and it worked fine on the VP26. Looks like I managed to brick 2 GAR2050's and 2 Melcors as well. I need to go back and investigate where I went wrong on those op amp builds. I thought for sure I had security in numbers, but apparently, I'm doing something very consistent but wrong. If anyone's able to look at my op amp builds with a fine-toothed comb and spot an error, please let me know.
My task now is to trace the op amps.
'Chungchunger said:...I'm hoping these pre's don't draw anywhere near max spec so I can run 4 on my little tester power supply to do some studio tests soon...
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