{"id":409,"date":"2008-02-24T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T07:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2008-02-25T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T01:37:46","slug":"a11-micrometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"#a11 :: Micrometer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"022408.jpg\"<\/a>A skosh. A nanometer. A smidgen. A c#nt-hair. A whit.<\/p>\n

Measurement of tiny gaps requires something capable of splitting hairs, help<\/a> dicing degrees into tenths and tenths and tenths again.<\/p>\n

This old Brown & Sharpe<\/a> micrometer is made of precision-milled stainless steel alloy, approved<\/a> hashed up one side and down the other with notches & numbers. It’s designed to calculate thickness by degrees barely visible to the naked eye.<\/p>\n

I’m not a mathematically precise person – I bought this off an antiques dealer for 9 bucks because its heft and knurled handles please me, viagra sale<\/a> because finding and fiddling with sharp tools is a good and true pursuit.<\/p>\n

Because it’s heavy.
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\nMeanwhile, I’ve been fiddling with the lighting for HLO. Last time I ran this blog for a year, we lived in a different place with the perfect tabletop set.<\/p>\n

I need to run down some sheet steel and wallboard to duplicate it, but for now, I’ve a black-paper seamless and an Ikea desk lamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I knocked the ISO down from 1600 (in the first tests<\/a> and changed the gray paper out for black. Might need to return to the gray, as it’s a bit more subtle (allows shadows, etc.). But while the lamp is nice and even, it’s a fluorescent, puts a green cast on everything that has to be dialed out in Photoshop and causes my Canon G9’s screen to strobe while I’m shooting.<\/p>\n

Precision is good. Next – perhaps an incandescent lamp instead …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A skosh. A nanometer. A smidgen. A c#nt-hair. A whit. Measurement of tiny gaps requires something capable of splitting hairs, help dicing degrees into tenths and tenths and tenths again. This old Brown & Sharpe micrometer is made of precision-milled stainless steel alloy, approved hashed up one side and down the other with notches & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9],"tags":[17,16,18,61],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instrument","category-tool","category-toy","tag-heavy","tag-micrometer","tag-steel","tag-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}