DIY
Here are nine awesome ideas for making photo and filmmaking gear from cardboard
Feb 27, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
What do you do when a piece of gear breaks or you forget to bring it to the shoot? Or if you’re on a tight…
Here’s how I made my own custom DIY battery charging station
Feb 17, 2020
Tom Barnes
I was, as I’m sure a lot of you are, utterly sick of endless chargers and cables. A mess of wires that always seem to…
How to make your own DIY HDMI teleprompter from an old laptop screen
Feb 10, 2020
John Aldred
Since we posted about Manny Ortiz’s use of the Parrot 2 Teleprompter a few weeks ago, I’ve been developing my own that I can 3D…
How I restored this beat up old Pelican case to its former glory
Feb 6, 2020
Athol Hill
In a previous blog post, I mentioned I was embarking on a Pelican 1550 repair project. I was looking to buy one, but someone offered…
How I built my own DIY wide-angle macro lens
Jan 27, 2020
Maximilian Simson
The wide-angle paradox As we know, wide angle lenses show a larger field of view and therefore make things appear smaller and appear further away…
How to calibrate your lens autofocus for $0
Jan 27, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Sometimes the autofocus on your lenses may not be exactly where you want it. Fortunately, it’s an easy fix as most modern cameras offer “micro…
How to make a (sort of) DIY JibONE camera jib
Jan 27, 2020
John Aldred
The recently announced Edelkrone JibONE looks like a fantastic bit of kit. It’s not terribly unreasonably priced at $999 for what it offers, but once…
How to build a massive DIY orbital spinning camera rig
Jan 24, 2020
John Aldred
Making cameras move in ways that are different can be a challenge, especially as cameras and all their associated bits seem to keep getting bigger…
How to make DIY wooden handgrips for under $30
Jan 4, 2020
Adam Rahn
Wooden handgrips or kinogrips are becoming more and more popular. I’ve had my DIY grips for a couple years now and I get compliments on…
Adapting industrial lenses for extreme macro photography
Jan 1, 2020
Peter Lin
If you ever visited some industrial surplus shops, very often you would see some cameras and lenses used in industrial automation. But you probably do…