I recently purchased a Canon 5D Mk II. A fine camera it seems, and the added resolution will be helpful. One small issue is that Canon redesigned the battery. Well, times change and things progress, and we can always use better batteries. It uses the LP-E6 battery and the camera is not compatible with the [...]
This is a question I frequently get. The short answer is, “Most likely it will.”
Most any camera will do. I use a an electronic circuit to trigger the camera, so I need one that has an electronic shutter release (most do). I use a variety of methods to create my Liquid Sculpture images, but in [...]
I suppose it’s obvious to many that water is a special substance. To recount a few of its properties that make it so:
It has the highest surface tension of any liquid except mercury.
It has one of the highest heat capacities of all materials.
It expands (floats) when it freezes.
It is a nearly universal solvent.
For my work [...]
Here is a fascinating, old device: Lord Kelvin’s water drop static electricity generator.
Here is a physics class demonstration of it.
Do my drops suffer from this distortion? Well, I don’t have such a generator built (yet), so I don’t have just this effect going on. But, I do believe that I see the shape of drops [...]
When people think of high-speed photography, the name that most often comes to mind is Harold “Doc†Edgerton. And rightly so, as he contributed so much to the discipline.
However, in 1876, A. M. Worthington wrote a paper entitled “A Second Paper on The Forms Assumed by Drops of Liquids falling vertically on a Horizontal Plate”; [...]
Note to car manufacturers: I never want a dead car battery. Never. Ever.
Call me contrary, but I don’t want my wife and kids to walk out to the rainy parking lot after a movie and find that they need to jump-start the car.
We have two cars made in the past five years. They both sport [...]
