After spending a bit of time looking at the DPReview collection of enthusiast compact cameras and almost, almost buying a Nikon P6000 I took the plunge and bought a Panasonic LX3 instead. My first impressions are very favorable. I am delighted with the 24-mm (equivalent) f2.0 lens, which does not seem prone to vignetting [...]

Fresh with enthusiasm from my recent Fled III construction project and trying to make the best of a rainy period, I recently made a large, lightweight Rokakku. This one is sewn from 0.65 oz. North Sails fabric and framed with relatively light Sky Shark tubes. The idea was that my workaday 7.5 foot (2.3 M) [...]

Over the holidays I had a great time restoring a 1938 Singer Featherweight sewing machine. While this iwas a gift for my wife it hought it was only prudent to sew a little test project to make sure it was working well. Of late there has been a bit of buzz on the KAP Discussion [...]

About a year ago I acquired a new radio for controlling aerial camera cradles that I lift using kites. For the previous ten years I used an Airtronics Infinity 600, a programmable transmitter that dated from my RC sailplane days. While it was well time to update this 1991 vintage radio, my principal motivation for [...]

There has been of late an interesting thread on the KAP Discussion Page about ways to secure a camera cradle to its Picavet suspension. My camera cradles, as is often the case, have a vertical threaded rod rising from their center of gravity. This rod is typically attached to the center of Picavet suspension cross [...]