DIY
Nikon Wants You To Control Anti-Aliasing Filter On The Go
Aug 28, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Nikon just filed quite an interesting patent. This patent describes a mechanism that gives a photographer control over the use of Anti Aliasing filter. If…
A Semi Practical Tablecloth And A Belt Camera Pouch
Aug 27, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Here is a fun tutorial, though I am not sure on how practical it is. Unless, of course, you are just coming back from an…
Old Cameras And Strobes Reborn As Beautiful Lighting Fixtures
Aug 25, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Old cameras are often a thing of beauty. They are well curved, with every aspect both engineered and designed to the maximum. Sadly with the…
3D Printed Brackets For Panoramic Photography
Aug 25, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Here is an interesting piece of gear. A 3d Printed lens collar that is designed for panoramic photography (this one is for Samyang 8mm, but…
The Bigshot Camera Is A Full Fledged DIY Digital Camera
Aug 19, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Ever wondered what’s inside a Digital camera? Shree Nayar, a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University took a stub at this question and made…
A Quick & Dirty $4 Follow Focus
Aug 18, 2013
Udi Tirosh
A follow focus is one of those things you don’t get until you shoot a bit of video. It its most simple form a follow…
Smoke Tube of Death – Controlling Smoke On Large Locations
Aug 7, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Controlling smoke always seems like a hard task to me. Between the wind, air temperate and evaporating nature of smoke it can get quite tricky….
A Beautiful Camera Stabilizer. With Build Beautifully Filmed
Aug 3, 2013
Udi Tirosh
This DIY stabilizer by Youtuber 朗 岩本 is one of the best DIY Stabilizers I’ve seen. It was made specifically for the EOS 7D, but…
How To Build A Functional Awesome Looking Steampunk DSLR Shoulder Rig From Plumbing Supplies
Aug 2, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Sometimes the looks of something makes just as much as difference as its function. I am not 100% positive that this steam punk rig by…
How To Build A Light Table (Or Inspecting 50,000 Film Slides)
Aug 2, 2013
Udi Tirosh
When our sister company, Spiffy Gear, designed and built the Light Blaster™ slide projector they (and we) had to go over slides. Lots of slides….