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How to make a simple DIY tethering cable strain relief

Jul 11, 2019 by Carsten Schlipf 6 Comments
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Once you start with cabled tethering from your camera to your computer you’ll soon want to look into a solution for a strain relief for the cable on your camera side to not only protect you from accidental disconnections, but even more from damaging your camera’s internal connector port.

Pretty soon you will stumble over the JerkStopper by Tether Tools which is basically a small plastic part that cramps around the cable with a short cord that is bound to the strap eyelet of your camera. Well, that little thing is everything else than cheap at over $16 currently.

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The Complete Lightroom and MIDI tutorial – My MIDI2LR Setup (final installment)

Feb 1, 2019 by Carsten Schlipf 89 Comments
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In the final part of this series, I am giving you my configuration for the Behringer X-Touch Mini that I’ve shown you in the previous part. Of course, everyone has different workflows and the biggest advantage of generic MIDI controllers is that you can personalize all functions. So have a look at my configuration, play around with it and then change it to your needs.

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The Complete Lightroom and MIDI tutorial – MIDI Controllers (second installment)

Feb 1, 2019 by Carsten Schlipf 3 Comments
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One of the biggest challenges, when trying to use a MIDI controller with Lightroom is to find a controller that works well for Lightroom. As already said in the first part of this series, MIDI controllers are optimized for sound production, not for photo editing.

So when you start you will face a chicken-egg problem: You do not know yet how well it works and which parameters can work best for editing, while you do not have a controller yet to try it out.

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The Complete Lightroom and MIDI tutorial – Introduction (first installment)

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Editing images with Software like Lightroom typically involves changing parameters like exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, and so on for more than 90% of your work. These parameters are controlled using sliders that you have to drag with your Mouse – sliders that emulate physical controls.

Why not use such physical controls like sliders or control dials directly? Instead of using the mouse to point to virtual controls and focus on these virtual controls, why not just use a physical control and focus on the effect on the picture while changing the values instead?

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