Off-camera cord for Sony's Active Interface Shoe ... AIS is a proprietary 16-pin interface that controls microphones, lights, and potentially other accessories.

I have chatted with many enthusiastic photographers and "camera hackers" in the past. All of them are friendly and armed with knowledge that could be beneficial ...

The Active Interface Shoe (AIS) is a 16-pin proprietary electro-mechanical interface that replaces the standard hot shoe on Sony's latest Handycams.

A painful lesson of shooting in low-resolution JPEG.

It's obvious the miniSD-to-SD adapter is just a pass-through adapter. But what has made me wonder is that the SD Card has nine interface pins, while the miniSD ...

A simple process if you know it.

In this article, I will show you how I turned my dead Canon BP511 into a dummy battery interface for experimental purposes. After disassembly the battery pack, ...

How to multiple expose with an APS camera. I have a Canon EOS IX camera and was wondering how to do multiple exposure pictures. I know by default the camera ...

This is an extremely sharp macro lens that is capable of 1:1 ratio. I use it to get close-up of flowers, insects, and other tiny objects. Some of the lens ...

I shot about seven rolls of film (24 to 36 pictures each), generating about two hundred pictures. The exposed rolls were stored in a belt pouch. With the pouch ...