We finally had to get our Our Smeg SA708X oven serviced. It hadn’t been working on fan-forced for a few months. So the broken bits included 2 door hinges which caused the microswitch on the door to short because it wasn’t holding the door closed firmly. The blown microswitch, and two light bulbs.
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Oven repairs
Strobist: Unlock The Superslave in Your Nikon SB-800
This is a really cool hack to get a SB-800 to be an optical slave:
1. First, turn on your flash.
2. Now get into the submenu by pressing and holding the “sel” button for 2 seconds.
3. Arrow right (the “single tree” button) to get the upper right quadrant highlighted.
4. Push the select button again.
5. Scoll down (“-” button) until “SU-4” is highlighted.
6. Push “sel” again to select.
7. Push and hold “sel” for 2 seconds to get out of the submenu.
8. Your flash will now say “REMOTE.”
This means I can use the ringflash to trigger a SB-800 positioned to lighten up a white backdrop. Very cool.
Amazing lifehack: Pack a starter pistol to deter luggage theft
Jon Udell wrote about a pretty cool way to get extra security for your checked bags here. Has anyone actually tried this? – in Australia?
OneLight DVD Trailer Online
OneLight DVD: This DVD tutorial looks like it’ll be worthing buying. Zack already has a great tutorial on shooting with white seamless background on his site.
Getting Ready for the Close Up
Getting Ready for the Close Up: A nice piece on UK photographer Platon about portrait photography. Video interview here.