I’ve been longing to make a tilt shift lens myself and everybody is reffering to your article.The only problem is that it isn’t appear to be working…. could you please send me a word or PDF document where you explain it once again, it would make me a happy man :).
Keep up the good work.

Kind regards,
Lucas Eikemans
The Netherlands

Hack-A-Day is not and will never be part of AOL. I hope to continue writing here for many, many years.

If this was digg I would digg down your comment; why are people so negative.

one more thing though

in this post on Jason’s blog it says

http://www.calacanis.com/2005/10/11/hackaday-stays-indie/

“Brian and I felt it would only be a matter of time before someone posted (in a blog post or a comment) “how to hack your INSERT_AOL_product_here” or “How to hack INSERT_AOL_partner_product_here.” If and when this happened we would wind up fighting with ourselves”

Well, since you’re the only employee now, who’s also got a substantial income from AOL/Netscape, the question is: what would you do if the above scenario happened? (since that scenario seems to be one of the reasons to keep had independent, right?)

…and I don’t want to be rude or anything, but what’s the independance of had from aol worth when you, as the only employee, are not independent from aol?

(and don’t get me wrong here, it’s not me demanding that independance(although it would be nice), it’s something had/weblogs inc. claimed, that’s all)

The bottom line is this: Hack-A-Day is an independent company and since I’m the only employee, I can pretty much do whatever I want with it.

Thank you readers for keeping us a viable company.

Yeah, that’s how I know it does not work :P But, I found out that a friend’s camera (same exact model) does allow it to happen without a cap… I’m going to make some phone calls and see if its some stupid setting :P I know its hackaday — but I think andrew might agree: its not worth F’ing up this kind of camera.

I do have a Nikon F2 (old school for some :P)… so I think I’ll have to clean her up to use this…

>odd, i thought hack-a-day was -not- acquired by AOL…

>It’s not. I am working full time for Netscape though.

Oh, that’s a crystal-clear answer… If I’m not mistaking, Netscape is an AOL-company, beta.netscape.com is Jason Calacanis’ new startup, who is the CEO of Weblogs Inc., which got aquired by AOL and now you’re hired by Netscape…

Now where exactly does this make hack-a-day independent and/or non-AOL? cause I’m not seeing it… and I don’t care that much for it either, it’s just that this site itself has claimed to be independent and non-AOL a while ago:

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000283062901/

…which, as I read it now, puzzles me even more, cause how independent (from AOL) can a site be when it’s topblogger get’s paid full-time by an AOL-company?

…to me it sounds more like a statement for trying to keep some credibility than the true motivation behind all this… Imho and as far as I can see it’s AOL-dollars all over the place… but of course, I could be wrong.

good luck on what you’re doing though

Well, you can find out pretty easily if you just remove the lens and try to release the shutter. If it works, great, if not, it’s probably a pretty simple matter of defeating an interlock switch or shorting a couple contacts.

What? You are reading “hack-a-day” you know.