DIY

    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…

    This guy created an Open Source DIY digital camera – including a 1-kilopixel sensor
    Dec 31, 2019 John Aldred

    Digital cameras have become so high resolution these days that you might wonder why somebody would want to build one of their own from scratch…

    How we built Bertha – A large format camera that will shoot 1.1×1.1 metre slides
    Dec 30, 2019 Davide Rossi

    It’s called Bertha, it’s a gigantic camera built out of a desire to find out what photography can reveal beyond certain limits. From the first…

    This autonomous boat shoots stabilised hyperlapse from the water
    Dec 23, 2019 John Aldred

    Hyperlapse has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years, especially as gimbals and drones capable of shooting such sequences have become more prolific….

    How to make your own DIY ground glass focusing screens for large format cameras
    Dec 23, 2019 John Aldred

    These days, if you want to shoot large format, you might have difficulty finding replacement parts. Large format cameras aren’t exactly as common as they…

    How to make a cheap DIY double drop system for epic droplet photography
    Dec 2, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    Photographer Steve Kazemir makes amazing droplet photos and has some unique ideas for taking them. He has come up with an automated double drop system to…

    How I built this low budget DIY set for my recent photography project
    Nov 21, 2019 Nicki Panou

    For my latest project, “we are the dead“, I decided to build a room in which to shoot my pictures. I had absolutely no idea…

    How to create a mechanical shutter release for your digital point & shoot camera
    Nov 19, 2019 John Aldred

    Most cameras these days offer some kind of built-in WiFI or Bluetooth control that allows you to fire your camera from an app on your…