I am celebrating 10001

OlyFlyer · 30th April 2007

I just noticed that I passed the 10th thousand counter. This is my ten thousand and first image with the E-500. It is a 3.8:1 macro of an aluminum ruler. Not a very phantastic image but I decided to show you as a kind of celebration.

Just to follow up, some more 3.8:1 macro of my famous 10 Swedish crown coin I use as model.

If you are bored, here is a sewing needle magnified 3.8 times.

The images are taken handheld with this beauty.

My DIY macro adapter with a 2xTC and an extra 36mm OM extension tube in between and of course the 50mm macro lens. FL-50 on top of camera with a reflector used as light.

Now as a last one, a quiz. Can you guess what this is?

??????????

Nerd · 30th April 2007

Last pic is a macro of and IC chip?

vendeta · 30th April 2007

cool setup!

Kid Shotter · 1st May 2007

Motherboard??My one already 13k.Just took 1.1k of pic over 26-27 april.

jjtml · 1st May 2007

Congrats olyflyer! I'm still at 6k on my e500. =)

btw, if I haven't mentioned it before, your frankenstein macro setup is amazing!

vendeta · 1st May 2007

Originally Posted by OlyFlyer

I just noticed that I passed the 10th thousand counter. This is my ten thousand and first image with the E-500. It is a 3.8:1 macro of an aluminum ruler. Not a very phantastic image but I decided to show you as a kind of celebration.

Just to follow up, some more 3.8:1 macro of my famous 10 Swedish crown coin I use as model.

If you are bored, here is a sewing needle magnified 3.8 times.

The images are taken handheld with this beauty.

My DIY macro adapter with a 2xTC and an extra 36mm OM extension tube in between and of course the 50mm macro lens. FL-50 on top of camera with a reflector used as light.

Now as a last one, a quiz. Can you guess what this is?

??????????

hey just wondering from the extension tubes? how did the om ext tube got mounted on the digital ext tube? any special adapter used?

Kid Shotter · 1st May 2007

This is Uncle Oly Flyer modified one.

OlyFlyer · 2nd May 2007

So, to the quiz. It is a piece of electronic history. What you see is part of an Intel 2716 EPROM from 1977, yes thirty years old. For those who don't know, it is a 2k (2048 bytes) memory chip that is programmable, it keeps the firmware when the power is removed and erasable using UV light. In a good, powerful eraser it takes about 10 minutes to erase the chip. I don't remember the programing time any more but even that is in the minutes magnitude. And in case you say, 2k is nothing, I tell you, I wrote quite many firmware that could do a lot of stuff in that tiny chip. Back than, we used a programming language called Assembly, not many can handle today. Using that language directly creates very compact programs. I don't remember any more the price of these chips back then at the begining of 1980's, but I remember I only owned two or three, and frying one ment a hole in the wallet too. Even then I was having my DIY projects, so it did happen now and then that things went up in flame...

This is how the full chip looks like. I know, I could have cleaned that before taking the image, but I didn't.

The quiz image is taken through the small round window. The ugly shadow is caused the sides of the window wall. I could have arranged better lighting but I was just too lazy and only used my FL-50.

OlyFlyer · 2nd May 2007

Originally Posted by Kid Shotter

Motherboard??My one already 13k.Just took 1.1k of pic over 26-27 april.

The 10k celebration is not meant to be something to mention, just that I notet there were too many zeros in the image number, and I thought first it was strange but then I noticed the actual roll over 10k. It is far too easy to take thousands of images with a digital camera, so I guess there are many people out there not even knowing they have passed 10k a long time ago.

OlyFlyer · 2nd May 2007

Originally Posted by vendeta

hey just wondering from the extension tubes? how did the om ext tube got mounted on the digital ext tube? any special adapter used?

Not only the OM extension tube but even the OM 2xTC was used for the images. It is a special adapter that enables the use. Here are the details:

http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=264305

BTW, I don't think it is necessary to quote all the images. It just makes the thread too long and boring.

Even quoted messages can be edited, only quoting what is important. Please, don't take this bad, just my opinion. Of course, if you disagree, that is OK too.

Mikefellh · 2nd May 2007

Back from the days when computers were actually fun and interesting! Have a few EPROMs lying around still myself. As for going up in flame, my worst was when I was following a circuit directly from a book and they mixed up the numbers of the two chips (they had the same number of pins)...one melted the plastic of the breadboard where the chip was seated, and the other one blew a hole through the chip.

30th April 2007	#1
OlyFlyer Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Europe, Sweden, outside Lund Posts: 2,038	I am celebrating 10001 I just noticed that I passed the 10th thousand counter. This is my ten thousand and first image with the E-500. It is a 3.8:1 macro of an aluminum ruler. Not a very phantastic image but I decided to show you as a kind of celebration. Just to follow up, some more 3.8:1 macro of my famous 10 Swedish crown coin I use as model. If you are bored, here is a sewing needle magnified 3.8 times. The images are taken handheld with this beauty. My DIY macro adapter with a 2xTC and an extra 36mm OM extension tube in between and of course the 50mm macro lens. FL-50 on top of camera with a reflector used as light. Now as a last one, a quiz. Can you guess what this is? ??????????

30th April 2007	#2
Nerd Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Singapore - Jurong West Posts: 699	Re: I am celebrating 10001 Last pic is a macro of and IC chip?

30th April 2007	#3
vendeta Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 251	Re: I am celebrating 10001 cool setup!

1st May 2007	#4
Kid Shotter Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 250	Re: I am celebrating 10001 Motherboard??My one already 13k.Just took 1.1k of pic over 26-27 april.

1st May 2007	#5
jjtml Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 311	Re: I am celebrating 10001 Congrats olyflyer! I'm still at 6k on my e500. =) btw, if I haven't mentioned it before, your frankenstein macro setup is amazing!

1st May 2007	#7
Kid Shotter Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 250	Re: I am celebrating 10001 This is Uncle Oly Flyer modified one.

2nd May 2007	#8
OlyFlyer Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Europe, Sweden, outside Lund Posts: 2,038	Re: I am celebrating 10001 So, to the quiz. It is a piece of electronic history. What you see is part of an Intel 2716 EPROM from 1977, yes thirty years old. For those who don't know, it is a 2k (2048 bytes) memory chip that is programmable, it keeps the firmware when the power is removed and erasable using UV light. In a good, powerful eraser it takes about 10 minutes to erase the chip. I don't remember the programing time any more but even that is in the minutes magnitude. And in case you say, 2k is nothing, I tell you, I wrote quite many firmware that could do a lot of stuff in that tiny chip. Back than, we used a programming language called Assembly, not many can handle today. Using that language directly creates very compact programs. I don't remember any more the price of these chips back then at the begining of 1980's, but I remember I only owned two or three, and frying one ment a hole in the wallet too. Even then I was having my DIY projects, so it did happen now and then that things went up in flame... This is how the full chip looks like. I know, I could have cleaned that before taking the image, but I didn't. The quiz image is taken through the small round window. The ugly shadow is caused the sides of the window wall. I could have arranged better lighting but I was just too lazy and only used my FL-50.

2nd May 2007	#11
Mikefellh Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,460	Re: I am celebrating 10001 Back from the days when computers were actually fun and interesting! Have a few EPROMs lying around still myself. As for going up in flame, my worst was when I was following a circuit directly from a book and they mixed up the numbers of the two chips (they had the same number of pins)...one melted the plastic of the breadboard where the chip was seated, and the other one blew a hole through the chip.