DIY Archives

This photographer built a DIY talking camera from scrap components

Aug 28, 2020 Dunja Đuđić

Iranian photographer Alireza Rostami has come up with some really cool DIY projects so far. This time, he’s made a prototype of a talking camera….

Aug 24, 2020 Dunja Đuđić

Game Boy camera is most likely not the first choice of portrait photographers. But what about when you pair it with a 70-200 DSLR lens?…

Aug 20, 2020 Jake Hicks

So before the film school nerds explode, let me just explain what a ‘scrim’ actually is and what the term colloquially means to us photographers….

Aug 18, 2020 John Aldred

It’s funny. Olympus seems to have actually become more prolific since they announced their sale to JIP. They’ve announced the new OM-D E-M10 Mark IV…

Aug 15, 2020 John Aldred

Macro is a challenging subject to photograph. Light, especially, can be a real struggle, so you often need to add extra light to overcome the…

Aug 10, 2020 Prusa Research

Apparently, you can find quite a lot of amateur and professional photographers in the 3D printing community. And a lot of them have already had…

Aug 8, 2020 Petri Damstén

I wanted a device that can throw light patterns onto a wall or a model. There are some commercially available but they are quite expensive…

Jul 22, 2020 John Aldred

The Aputure MC has become a very popular little LED light since its launch in October last year. It’s tiny but pretty powerful, and it’s…

Jul 19, 2020 Udi Tirosh

Whatever your camera is, you probably have an App to turn your phone into a wireless monitor. Sony has Imaging Edge; Canon has Camera Connect;…

Jul 6, 2020 John Aldred

Charging stations are nature’s way of telling us we have way too many different types of batteries for our gear. For some, our “charging station” is…