DIY
A Video Tethering Dolly From A Surveying Tripod
This little video is quite an interesting submission to our How I took it contest by Julien Robitaille. There are only 2 weeks left to…
Twin Lens Reflex Polaroid Kit Coming Soon?
About a week ago we featured an unnamed hand crafted Laser crafted beautiful twin lens reflex with a Polaroid back. I’ll be lying if I…
How To Give An Old Nifty-Fifty A New Life
It was almost a year ago that Maciej Pietuszynski shared a quick and dirty tutorial on creating a tilt lens from an old Nifty-Fifty and…
Reminder: Set Your Camera Clocks Today
A quick reminder to our friends in the US. Here is your friendly reminder to change your camera clocks back from Daylight Saving Time (move…
How To Build A Through-The-Window Camera Car Mount
shooting scenes through windows of moving cars is not a trivial thing. While shooting scenes through a car-window can be done with a green screen,…
Photography From The Future: Anti Photography Systems
About two ago Times broke with a piece about how Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has an anti-paparazzi system built on his new Yacht. This triggered…
A Home Brew TLR That Shoots On Polaroid
This home brew TLR (Twin Len Reflex) Polaroid is yet to be named (maybe you can help) but since it is a one of a…
How To Build DIY variable ND-Filter (And Motivate Your Models)
We have just over a month and a week left for our “how I took contest” and I wanted to share one of the great…
Building An Automatic iPhone Panorama Maker
While getting a good panoramic image got a whole lot easier with iOS6, there is still the issue of getting the phone to move the…
Will Olympus OM-D EM-5 Be The Next Camera To Get Community Firmware?
Canon P&S shooters have CHDK, Canon film makers have Magic Lantern, and GH2 shooters have pTool. All are unofficial firmware updates, developed by the community,…









































