DIY
This DIY battery adapter lets you unify your battery power system across your video devices
Dec 14, 2022
John Aldred
We’re quite lucky in the photo and video industries that there aren’t many weird or non-standard batteries, for the most part. Sure, some companies do…
The Photon is a tiny open-source handheld light meter powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico
Nov 29, 2022
John Aldred
Light meters have been a bit out of fashion for a while – although you’ll get my Sekonic from my cold dead hands! – but…
The Photopistol is a 3D printable pistol grip for holding and shooting your camera
Nov 29, 2022
John Aldred
While words like “shoot” might sometimes get you into trouble on certain social media platforms, this is a device that blurs the lines between its…
Call yourself a cookie addict? Well, here’s some Oreo lens and body caps you can 3D print
Nov 28, 2022
John Aldred
3D printing offers us some wonderfully creative options for developing, prototyping, and ultimately making excellent practical tools to help us with our photography and filmmaking….
This 3D printed cage stops your microphone cable from falling out of the Rode Wireless GO II Transmitter
Nov 21, 2022
John Aldred
Now, I have to admit, this isn’t a problem I’ve faced myself, but it is a problem I’ve seen a few other people mention, both…
The “Pieca” is a Raspberry Pi powered camera with a Leica M lens mount
Nov 9, 2022
John Aldred
It feels like we’re having a big rush of Raspberry Pi based cameras recently. Lately, we’ve had the Paparazzo interchangeable C/CS mount camera, the accessible-anywhere…
This DIY 3D printed trinocular lens lets you lets you shoot digital wigglecams with your Sony camera
Nov 3, 2022
John Aldred
Wigglegrams are a fun thing to shoot and experiment with. For those who’ve never heard of them before, it’s essentially a sort of 3D photo,…
This is the worst digital camera in the world with a resolution of only 48 pixels and no lens
Oct 24, 2022
John Aldred
Digital camera sensors have come a very long way in the last few decades. Even just in the last 20 years, we’ve gone from the…
The KineCAM is a DIY instant camera that prints out animated kinegrams
Oct 21, 2022
John Aldred
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a kinegram. While the term “kinegram” wasn’t really coined until the late 1990s, the process has actually…
The InfiniteDeck is a DIY alternative to the StreamDeck and Loupedeck Live
Oct 11, 2022
John Aldred
While primarily aimed towards live streaming, products like the StreamDeck and particularly the Loupedeck Live have proven to be invaluable for photographers and filmmakers. They…