DIY

    How to Make a DSLR Camera Trap Housing
    Sep 3, 2016 Will Nicholls

    Looking to make your own DSLR camera trap housing? You’ve come to the right place. Camera trapping is an increasingly popular technique, and it’s rather…

    A simple trick to help you adapt any lens to your camera
    Aug 24, 2016 John Aldred

    Photographer Mathieu Stern tests out a lot of weird lenses. From modern CCTV to 135 year old large format lenses, nothing is too large a challenge. Many modern lenses have…

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    Protect your gear from rain and snow for less than $1
    Aug 23, 2016 John Aldred

    These days, most cameras and lens build quality is pretty high. Even if not completely weather sealed they can still take quite a lot of abuse from…

    Build your own large DIY Teleprompter for under $40
    Aug 22, 2016 John Aldred

    If you speak to camera often, then there’s no getting away from the value of a teleprompter. But, those things can be expensive. There are less…

    How to build your own DIY camera jib for overhead shots for less than $35
    Aug 18, 2016 John Aldred

    We’ve shown you a few overhead camera rigs before. This one, though, has to be amongst the least expensive DIY solutions I’ve seen. Based around…

    This $8 IKEA table hack produces killer product shots
    Aug 15, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    Here is a nice concept for product photography. If you are familiar with table-top, you will love this table-bottom concept. This one is coming from Caleb Pike…

    Get perfect sound in your videos with $5 DIY sound absorbing panels
    Aug 9, 2016 John Aldred

    Getting quality sound in your video can be tricky. Even when you have a great microphone and field recorder, you’re hindered by the environment. Outside we have traffic, birds and…

    How a frying pan can help you take photos and videos from super low angles
    Aug 6, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    Grabbing low angle footage and photos is somewhat of a challenge. Even the lowest of tripods have some height to them. Then again, you probably…

    How to build the world’s brightest, craziest, LED light serving 1800W
    Jul 27, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    Here is an entry that will probably go down  as a totally impractical build, but it is just so insane that I had to share it….

    This is how you build a portable charger case to answer all your power needs
    Jul 24, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    If you are shooting on location (and even if not) you must have a ton of batteries to power your production war-horse. The camera takes…