From scrap to purposed

[DrEntropy]

Neighbor brought me a "dual monitor stand". A friend of his who was moving decided it was excess to requirement , so gave it to the neighbor. Neighbor found his monitors wouldn't mount to it, so he brought it to me... a 1/4"x20tpi tap and two short studs later, it now serves as a tabletop rig for small item photos:

Shirt for backdrop draped over the stand:

Test shot result:

 

[DrEntropy]

Found this in the yard, no idea what insect it was that shed it.

 

[Basil]

Well aren’t you the clever one!

 

[waltesefalcon]

Doc, that is a cicada shell. We get them every summer here, when my kids were little they would put them on their shirts to try and scare their mom.

 

[GregW]

Nice way to re-purpose an unwanted thing. I never understood why everything on cameras are metric except that 1/4"x20 mounting thread.

 

[DrEntropy]

Nice way to re-purpose an unwanted thing. I never understood why everything on cameras are metric except that 1/4"x20 mounting thread.

That 1/4x20 thing has always puzzled me ass well. In my "youth" a camera store owner told me it started with Kodak/Eastman and became a defacto "standard" as a result.

But who knows. He may have been eggin' me on.

 

[Basil]

That 1/4x20 thing has always puzzled me ass well. In my "youth" a camera store owner told me it started with Kodak/Eastman and became a defacto "standard" as a result.

But who knows. He may have been eggin' me on.

 

[DrEntropy]

Doc, that is a cicada shell. We get them every summer here, when my kids were little they would put them on their shirts to try and scare their mom.

Wasn't sure, as the cicadas where we grew up were a different, longer abdomen and had no stripes.

 

[DrEntropy]

Then that video re-enforces another of my mentors: Don Arnold, of "Arnold's Photo Service" and the second generation of the business. They had a retail store on the main street of my hometown and a B&W processing lab around the corner. His father started the business with a camera and a pony, went thru the Depression that way. The dad was retired by the time I started hangin' around (19966-'67), he drove a Boat-tail Auburn by then! "Uncle" Don was a Cadillac man. He taught me a lot about business when I was still a teen.