DIY

    DJI Mic 2

    DJI Mic 2 adds 32-bit float, Bluetooth and comes in black or white
    Jan 17, 2024 John Aldred

    DJI has officially announced the new DJI Mic 2 (buy here). The successor to DJI’s popular initial offering adds 32-bit float internal recording. This ensures…

    How to make Anamorfake inserts

    How to create perfectly sized “Anamorfake” masks for your lenses
    Jan 5, 2024 Vlad Moldovean

    This article strives to be the ultimate design guide on modifying your spherical lens to produce the type of anamorphic bokeh you can see in…

    OenAutoLab

    OpenAutoLab is a complete DIY film developing solution
    Jan 4, 2024 John Aldred

    Many of us who shoot film have either developed our own film or have wanted to try it at some point. And for basic black-and-white…

    cardboard backdrop gobo

    Use cardboard to make the $0 2-in-1 backdrop and gobo
    Dec 29, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    Are you in search of festive, sparkly backdrops? And you have some cardboard lying around from a bunch of Christmas gifts you bought or packages you ordered? Well, here’s an idea. In this video from Adorama, Gavin Hoey shows how to create stunning photographic lighting effects with a humble piece of cardboard and a dash of creativity. He transforms this everyday material into a DIY gobo (or cookie) and a backdrop with a sparkly, festive glow.

    Filmolino SlideScanner size thumbnail

    The Filmolino SlideScanner is a film scanner you can build yourself
    Dec 28, 2023 Sagiv Gilburd

    You can get a good slide scanner from Kodak for about $179. It works well, but what if you don’t want to pay that much…

    3D Printed Raspberry Pi Camera

    Build this interchangeable lens DIY Raspberry Pi Zero camera
    Dec 22, 2023 John Aldred

    Ever since Raspberry Pi released the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera Module (buy here), we’ve seen a flurry of 3D-printed cameras based on it. It’s…

    DIY DMX Modular Lights

    Build your own modular DIY DMX-controlled 8ft tube lights for $50
    Dec 19, 2023 John Aldred

    A lot of DIY lighting projects are fairly basic. They’re often too small or too low-powered. Not all of them, of course. We’ve seen some…

    Raspberry Pi Night Vision

    Build your own DIY night vision camera with a Raspberry Pi
    Dec 8, 2023 John Aldred

    One of the great things about a lot of small sensor cameras is that they’re available in multiple flavours. Most webcams, for example, see both…

    Single 8 Film

    Single 8mm film resurrected from the dead by open source project
    Dec 6, 2023 John Aldred

    Single 8mm is the lesser-known cousin of the popular Super 8mm format. It was Japanese company Fujifilm’s answer to Kodak’s Super 8. Fujifilm hasn’t made…

    3D stereoscopic macro adapter

    This 3D printed stereoscopic macro lens is the weirdest camera rig you ever saw
    Dec 5, 2023 John Aldred

    When 3D printers first started to become a thing, they were hailed as the future of manufacturing. We’d be able to make anything we want….