federico2 Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Hello everybody!<p> Tired of being unable to take good photos of your friends / kids? Here's my tutorial on how to create the cheapest and wackiest hot-shoe attachement for your camera.<p>First of all, buy a PEZ sweet dispenser in any grocery store (they are sold everywhere in Europe, I hope they are in the USA too). The more ridiculous, the better. [fig. A.]. The base ("feet") of the dispenser should look like this [fig. B.]<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
federico2 Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 Now, using a cutter, trim the feet of the dispenser [fig. C.] leaving a 2-3 mm wide plastic strip on each side [fig. D.] Check the width of your camera's hot shoe if you are not sure. And avoid trimming your fingers.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
federico2 Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 Slide the dispenser in the hot shoe of your camera, it should fit naturally! [Fig. E.] And its sweet-dispensing capabilities are retained! Yum! [Fig. F]<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
federico2 Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 Now you are ready to shoot! The best use for this attachement is to make people laugh and quickly snap a joyful portrait of them. You can then reward them with a sweet for added happiness. I've tested it on kids and friends and it works most of the time!<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
federico2 Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 If you are not satisfied with the result, try using a different dispenser. The one you chose might not have been ridiculous / funny enough.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmalossini Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Ottima idea, Federico. La provero` al piu` presto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtis_newport Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 What's the guide number on that thing? It sounds like a great idea for when you're shooting children. Sure to keep them interested and attentive, especially if you show them how it dispenses candy! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottocrat Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Genius! Best tip of the month! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennifer valencia Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 what a cool, funny idea! I'm going to try it! :) Jennifer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Brilliant! Federico, you must be a kid at heart to have come up with an idea like this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike dixon Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 This may be the best thread I've ever seen on photo.net. I must get someone to ship me a Pez dispenser so I can use it for street photography. It's about twenty times wackier than the smiley face and rainbow sticker on my camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne_cornell2 Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Ditto, Mike. This should be considered a must for street photographers. It'll put an end to threads like "I got beat up by an old lady because I took her photograph." Instead we'll have more threads like "I can't pick up chicks because they all laugh at my Pez dispenser." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwcombs Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Now that's what I call thinking outside the box. Great idea. We do have PEZ dispensers here in the U.S.A. Except they're designated N-PEZ. (Nikon humor...ar ar) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
federico2 Posted June 7, 2005 Author Share Posted June 7, 2005 Thank you everybody for your comments! I'm glad you found my idea useful or at least funny. Now it would be fun to see a thread showing pictures taken with this "thing" (somebody should give a decent name to it.. I'm sure something better and shorter than "PEZ Sweet-Dispenser Hot Shoe Attachement" can be found) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 You are on, Frederico! Give us a week :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo ledesma Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Hey could I get the Spec sheets on each? And which lens should I use with each, and wouldn't it be WAY Sharper on my M7?? Read Sarcasm. Anyhoo great Idea for my wifes 3rd grade class, I'm seriously doing that the next time I'm there. Pablo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Pablo, Some of the aspects you may want to test for are: 1. Field of curvature 2. Distortion 3. Chromatic aberration 4. Resolution (preferrably in lp/mm) 5. Light fall off/vignetting (better to measure the percent light fall off so that you can decide if it is digital compatible). 6. Others like coma, spherical aberrations. 7. Actual (measured) DOF. This list does not preclude the other factors essential to get an image that I can not think of at the moment or simply unaware that exists. Hope, this helps! P.S. If it is for anything related to Leica, add the "glow factor" as well. This can not be quantified, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules_kropotkin Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 I know you are interested in the specs. I will soon test the device shooting wallpapers inside my garage for two days and then shooting brick walls outside for other two days, just to be sure. Then I will do the same thing again but with a digital camera.<p> My main problem is to find an unit associated to a numerical value for measuring bokeh. I've read all of Ansel Adams' books but he doesn't mention it :-( Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Sorry, guy. You sure have been reading up on the wrong sorts of books! To get a "good bokeh", you need to stop down to at least f/256, I hear. Ansel Adams and his f/64 were waaay off. The fact that he never got to hear the word "bokeh" while he was alive did not help much either. :( May be it is best to club the "bokeh" factor along with the "glow" factor and just find: a. if there is one and if it is there, b. is it a 'good' one or a 'bad'one Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprouty Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 This thread belongs on the Leica Forum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
federico2 Posted June 8, 2005 Author Share Posted June 8, 2005 But I'm not a lucky Leica shooter :-(Help me buy a Leica! Send me enough money to the paypal account federico.sartorio(at)etu.unil.ch so I will finally be able to properly test "glow" and "creamy bokeh" (yum)<p>Cross-posting isn't allowed, right? Can't an exception be made? I'd like to reach a wider street-shooting audience with this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprouty Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Maybe in this case it should be, this is just too funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Which flavor Pez takes funnier pictures? Can anyone direct me to at least a dozen websites that will help me with my hand-wringing despair over whether the Bert dispenser is better than the Patrick dispenser for street photography? I'm gonna go dig out my Dremel tool to make short work of refitting a dispenser for photo duty. I don't trust me with a sharp knife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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