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Wow, I wish I would have seen this post 5 years ago! Stumbled across this today while looking for a thread I remembered seeing where someone talked about Helios lenses. Never found the post but I was inspired to do some new years eve macro shots of an alps switch for fun. These are focused stacked w...

Yes, I have been using a lightbox. At first because I wanted a totally empty background, but now the software has an option to "ignore static background features", so now it is not so necessary. It gives really even lighting so that helps a lot. I've been using a similar electrical turntable, but wi...

Here's a short timelapse video I made of the whole process. This one was a big challenge to get right and thus a lot of fun because I took about half the photos of what I usually take. 264 photos might seem like plenty but I wasn't careful to capture the far edges so there was a lot of playing aroun...

Televideo 725

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Plate spring TKL with fancy keys. The gif format doesn't do it justice

I was using just Snacks, but that nickname is taken on almost every platform I've ever tried to register it on. I'm pretty sure I stole snacksthecat from seeing it on a blog I read a lot ~2009-2012 called hipsterrunoff https://web.archive.org/web/20090201003130/http://hipsterrunoff.com/ One of the b...

Result:

https://skfb.ly/opWtL

I got an illuminated tent to try to improve lighting during the picture taking step. I knew it was pretty big but I must say this is a little bit bigger than I expected :lol: . It does provide really nice, even lighting, though. And you can select a backdrop color that will provide a good contrast w...

I love everything about the video. Change nothing and make more!

I played around last night with dropping/bouncing keycaps. Not many turned out well, but here is the best one:

Wanted to share the 3D model that I made from photos of my F77. Link to the 3D model on Sketchfab: https://skfb.ly/opPQz Interesting! The page notes that the 3d model used 391 photos. Did you have an automated machine to take the photos? I've gotten it semi automated, which is to say that I have a ...

Thank you guys for the nice comments. I'm glad you enjoy the models. Awesome work with the photogrammetry. It's pretty cool being able to inspect keyboards that I probably won't ever see IRL. I was wondering if you ever thought about using these scans to 3D print molds for vacuforming clear plastic ...

Wanted to share the 3D model that I made from photos of my F77.

Link to the 3D model on Sketchfab:
https://skfb.ly/opPQz

Hey friends, I haven't done a scan in forever and finally decided to scan my brand new F77. I made some tweaks to the process and I'm really happy with the result. The main change was using more of a rotating pedestal vs. a broad turntable, allowing more of the board to be visible in each shot. The ...

Ok, honestly I'm not quite sure what to make of "SEXIEST" in the same sentence as "keyboard" Don't tell us you got the name Polecat collecting modest keyboards :lol: Something about seeing a Northgate after several months away makes me want to create the "Omni TKL 84". Maybe if I ever come across o...

tell me about your hobbies and interests without using the word "keyboard"



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Viewing the contents of this box may result in an irresistible urge to connect things that are not compatible with each other.

Well hello again... Gonna try to keep this shorter than last time but: tl;dr: been out of it for a while now, probably going to keep that going, doubt I'll vanish all-together. This is going to be a bit of an overshare but I just wanted to give some context around what's up and share my cautionary t...

It ain't much, but I've been trying to do a decent "day-to-night" timelapse for weeks now. Cameo appearance by a tiny Sears/Willis tower in the lower left corner.

The idea of doing an HDR timelapse has been on my mind, and since I'm not good at either HDR or timelapse photography; why not give it a shot anyway. It turned out predictably bad... and then I kept trying to fix it and only making it worse. I only know how to do like 2 things in Adobe Premiere. You...

It's a trick question, you must love all your children the same.

Exception for Unsavers.

Any guesses on which is the best ??? F-AT? ... the best compromise of wrist friendly height, good switches and reasonable layout :) The best switch feel, sound and build quality is the F XT. If you ask me, the IBM F XT is the best keyboard IBM ever made. Hmm interesting to prefer XT over AT. Is it ...

funkmon wrote: ↑

10 Jul 2020, 19:27

My version



My version from the bridge indicated on the postcard

Wow those turned out beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

And indeed I tried again during the sunset. Turned out pretty neat IMO.

Redmaus wrote: ↑

07 Jul 2020, 02:16

Lookin like a couple of emeralds....

Careful, you might become attached quickly!

This is my wimpy attempt at capturing the sky turning over. I wasn't able to sleep early this morning so I decided to give this a shot. I might try again with the sunset in a few hours.

Queen of the couch

Portrait of an abandoned project

Happy Independence Day

Brought my "uniquely" stickered HHKB outside to take some pictures today. They turned out bad but why not share them anyway?

I finally got around to scanning this really old keyboard. It gets boring to use the same exact method every time so I always try to introduce some sort of tweak into the process. This time I experimented with focus stacking, as a way to squeeze more depth of field into each photo. The focus stackin...

XMIT wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2020, 17:35

I'd be careful with those XMIT keys. Just saying.

I'm afraid to ask why.

I may have a history of destroying nice things.