DIY
How to make a great macro lens for your phone for $2
Jun 5, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Nowadays you can buy all sorts of smartphone lenses: from $35 crappy super-zoom to high-end, $200 Zeiss lenses. But if you feel like doing a…
I 3D-printed a Canon EF lens mount for Game Boy camera
Jun 3, 2018
Bastiaan Ekeler
I was inspired by Tim Binnion‘s work with the Game Boy Camera and a cheap cellphone tele lens. I figured I’d up the ante and design…
The Goodman One is an open source 3D printable medium format camera you can make yourself
Jun 1, 2018
John Aldred
Dora Goodman is a creator of beautiful handcrafted and customised analogue film cameras. She’s always had an obsession with handmade objects, and cameras afford her many…
How to make your own DIY beauty dish for less than $10
May 31, 2018
John Aldred
The beauty dish has become a staple of portrait and fashion photographers. When used well, they offer a pleasing and flattering look to your subject….
How to build this heavy duty DIY camera car rig for only $30
May 30, 2018
John Aldred
Mounting cameras to cars is a lot of fun. It can allow us to get some unique and unusual perspectives in photos and videos. But…
How to make a DIY Scrim Jim for less than $80
May 28, 2018
Adam Rahn
Scrim jims, butterflies, overheads, 4×4 frames, whatever you want to call them, are a staple on most film sets – and for good reason. They…
How to 3D print your own DIY motorised tracking 2-axis camera slider
May 27, 2018
John Aldred
I’ve been getting into 3D printing quite a bit this year. Mostly with regard to how it can help me with my own photography and…
This is how you build a USCSS Nostromo (Alien ’79) inspired battery charging station
May 26, 2018
Chad Verzosa
Organizing all sorts of batteries and chargers is always a big problem among photographers. We’ve seen quite a few crafty people tackle this problem by…
How to construct the world’s most well built and best looking DIY light box
May 22, 2018
John Aldred
It’s always interesting to see how those who have some kind of actual construction skill tackle photography related projects. For example, if any of us…
Here’s how to hack a Polaroid camera to print on thermal paper instead of film
May 8, 2018
Chad Verzosa
Building an instant camera that prints images on thermal paper isn’t exactly a new concept. Just a couple of years, ago, we even encountered a…