Liney
16-09-2018, 3:24pm
Maybe I'm just grumpier than usual today, but I have to complain about a certain manufacturer of chips that has a similar name to a company that makes golfing attire.If you don't get the company I am referring to, their product comes in a cardboard tube with a shiny surface inside.
And it was this very shiny surface that attracted me to the container. I saw an article a number of years ago when some industrious person had taken one of these chip containers and, with a deft hand with a pair of scissors and some sticky tape, had manufactured an attachment that fitted over an on-camera flash and directed the light downwards to directly in front of the lens.
An excellent device, and for those of us still learning in macro photography, a great way of providing illumination to a close-in suibject.
Imagine my disgruntled feelings when I picked up a new tube of chips last week with the intent of making a new flash divertor, to find the sods have now made the chips with a smaller diameter and the container won't fit on my flash anymore!
Has anyone else had these moments where they have found something that they had happily "repurposed" had been changed to make it no longer useful?
And it was this very shiny surface that attracted me to the container. I saw an article a number of years ago when some industrious person had taken one of these chip containers and, with a deft hand with a pair of scissors and some sticky tape, had manufactured an attachment that fitted over an on-camera flash and directed the light downwards to directly in front of the lens.
An excellent device, and for those of us still learning in macro photography, a great way of providing illumination to a close-in suibject.
Imagine my disgruntled feelings when I picked up a new tube of chips last week with the intent of making a new flash divertor, to find the sods have now made the chips with a smaller diameter and the container won't fit on my flash anymore!
Has anyone else had these moments where they have found something that they had happily "repurposed" had been changed to make it no longer useful?