DIY

    How I turned my bedroom closet into a darkroom for $20
    May 15, 2023 Chris Kuhn

    A few years ago I had a great darkroom setup in my basement that I converted from a (mostly) unused bathroom. It had a wet…

    This Raspberry Pi project stitches together images of passing trains
    May 12, 2023 John Aldred

    This is quite a fascinating concept. Based around a Raspberry Pi, it takes photographs – lots of photographs – of trains passing through a station…

    This guy strapped a Super 8 movie camera to an FPV drone
    May 11, 2023 John Aldred

    There are times when YouTube presents us with something so insane and cool that we not only go, “Wow!” but also, “How has it taken…

    How I shot a HDR tintype with a super-fast lens
    May 11, 2023 Markus Hofstätter

    When shooting wet plates, you deal with a very light-insensitive process (about ISO 0.5). So most wet plate artists want to get their hand on…

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    I turned a 3D printer into a $400, four axis motion controller
    May 8, 2023 Udi Tirosh

    Videographer and Tinkerrer Pedro Callisaya just created what’s probably the cheapest four-axis motion controller (and even the basic ones don’t run cheap). He did this…

    How I made a 3D-printed movie camera that uses 35mm film
    May 8, 2023 Blaž Semprimožnik

    A couple of years ago I have been occasionally shooting 35mm films with point&shoot still cameras while also having the desire to shoot motion picture…

    This guy stuffed a Gameboy camera inside a Holga
    Apr 7, 2023 John Aldred

    Of all the film-to-digital camera conversions I’ve seen, this has to be one of the most fun. I mean, who wouldn’t want to turn what…

    This photographer converted a 60-year-old Yashica from analogue to digital
    Apr 6, 2023 John Aldred

    In the years since photographers started transitioning from film to digital in the early 2000s, many companies promised conversion kits. Devices you could put inside…

    3D print your own modular 30W LED spot for use on small sets
    Apr 3, 2023 John Aldred

    There are a wide range of continuous LED lights on the market these days, from small to large and cheap to expensive. Many of them…

    This unique camera gives a clay pigeon’s view of the world – until it’s blasted out of the sky
    Mar 17, 2023 John Aldred

    This definitely ranks highly amongst the oddest camera mounting jobs I’ve ever seen. This one-time-use camera rig from Thomas Renck mounts to the top of…