During lunch time, listening to Singtao Chinese Radio FM 96.1MHz, Ms. Tang Ling interviews "趴趴虎" for California famous writers. Culture, travel, history, sounds interesting.
His website 淡江人在北加 > 龍行天下 has a lot of great local travel ideas, two examples are 【聽海2008】, 【看山2008】. So many good places!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Photography: flash related
Flash: strobe, speedlight, "闪光灯".
Strobist ! This is such a wonderful and amazing blog, suggested by Eric, now I'm reading through the Lighting 101 posts. Thanks so much for its owner David Hobby.
Reading about the sync between camera hot shoe -- flash. Dig out my old Yinyan BY-24ZP that I bought in Beijing in about 1996(?), do a Google and find the manufacturer website: Yinyan (银燕) flashes It has a tech 101 page in Chinese. The website is not well designed, the online shopping page really sucks. But I figure out my BY-24ZP is high voltage triggered, I measure the voltage is around 220V DC!
Internet and Google are really amazing. I google "hot shoe pinout" and find this website: http://www.carlmcmillan.com/Optoisolated_Adapter.htm It has an opto-coupler between low voltage hotshoe and high voltage trigger voltage flash. :) Maybe I can make one and embed the circuit into my old Yinyan.
This site also has links to: http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html (Strobe trigger voltages) and http://www.botzilla.com/photo/G1strobe.html (Canon related)
On eBay those Nikon SB-800 speedlight units were sold at around $320. Why bother bid instead of buy from B&H? Ouch, I know why! SB-800 shows "discontinued" on B&H! It is replaced by SB-900...
It's late Saturday night, time to sleep.
Strobist ! This is such a wonderful and amazing blog, suggested by Eric, now I'm reading through the Lighting 101 posts. Thanks so much for its owner David Hobby.
Reading about the sync between camera hot shoe -- flash. Dig out my old Yinyan BY-24ZP that I bought in Beijing in about 1996(?), do a Google and find the manufacturer website: Yinyan (银燕) flashes It has a tech 101 page in Chinese. The website is not well designed, the online shopping page really sucks. But I figure out my BY-24ZP is high voltage triggered, I measure the voltage is around 220V DC!
Internet and Google are really amazing. I google "hot shoe pinout" and find this website: http://www.carlmcmillan.com/Optoisolated_Adapter.htm It has an opto-coupler between low voltage hotshoe and high voltage trigger voltage flash. :) Maybe I can make one and embed the circuit into my old Yinyan.
This site also has links to: http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html (Strobe trigger voltages) and http://www.botzilla.com/photo/G1strobe.html (Canon related)
On eBay those Nikon SB-800 speedlight units were sold at around $320. Why bother bid instead of buy from B&H? Ouch, I know why! SB-800 shows "discontinued" on B&H! It is replaced by SB-900...
It's late Saturday night, time to sleep.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Honda Pilot: "B16" maintenance minder code
2007 Honda Pilot shows B16 at mileage 9996, checked manual and repair book, also browsed websites (with pictures, without picture, Acura MDX, video), got to know I can do by myself.
Bought engine oil, oil filter, Honda VTM-4 differential fluid, spent almost the whole Saturday in the garage, slowly but finally finished the "B16" maintenance: change engine oil (4.5 quarters) and filter (Fram 7317), change differential fluid (3+ quarters, not 4+), rotate tires (cross over). Reset the minder code. Will post a Picasa online album folder for this, since some friends are waiting for the pictures to show them how to do it.
Bought engine oil, oil filter, Honda VTM-4 differential fluid, spent almost the whole Saturday in the garage, slowly but finally finished the "B16" maintenance: change engine oil (4.5 quarters) and filter (Fram 7317), change differential fluid (3+ quarters, not 4+), rotate tires (cross over). Reset the minder code. Will post a Picasa online album folder for this, since some friends are waiting for the pictures to show them how to do it.
Friday, October 3, 2008
test
On 10/3/2008 Friday, try if this blogger or blogspot with Gmail account is working or not. Let's see. Next paragraph is in Chinese.
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