kickstarter
Straw delivers power to your cameras from a Type-C USB power bank
Oct 8, 2020
John Aldred
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arseniy/straw-power-your-camera-from-usb-pd-power-bank A few months ago, some of you might remember I posted a video about some prototype USB cables I’d been testing. These cables take…
The FLEX teleprompter works both with your camera and for speeches with a live audience
Sep 23, 2020
John Aldred
Teleprompters are valuable tools for anybody who creates video-based content. They allow you to easily script that content and read it while talking directly to…
“Alice” is an odd Micro Four Thirds camera that (literally) hooks up to your phone
Sep 23, 2020
John Aldred
Hooking a sensor up to your phone isn’t an entirely new concept. Sony tried something similar a while ago and then gave up. Chinese manufacturer…
A comprehensive review of the new Moment Travelwear bags
Aug 21, 2020
Paul Monaghan
Moment, who started back in 2013 with a lens for mobile phones Kickstarter, is back! This time with a new line of Travelwear bags and…
The CamFi ZF is a remote controlled zoom and focus unit for timelapse and macro focus stacking
Jul 8, 2020
John Aldred
CamFi is a popular name when it comes to remotely controlling your camera. But two of the things you typically can’t control via a simple…
The BIGSOFTI is yet another small LED light to help you shoot better smartphone photos
Jun 26, 2020
John Aldred
Small lights just seem to be popping up more and more lately. We’ve got Lumiee, Litra, Lumecube and a whole bunch of others beginning with…
Ditch those batteries with the GravGrip hydraulic stabiliser for smartphones and action cameras
Jun 17, 2020
John Aldred
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gravgrip/gravgrip-battery-free-camera-stabilization With the massive range of gimbals and stabilisers out there and the number of different companies making them, you’d think we’d see something truly…
“I’m Back” is back again with the “I’m Back 35” digital back to support more 35mm SLRs
Apr 13, 2020
John Aldred
For those who haven’t heard of it before, “I’m Back” produces a range of digital backs for various analogue film cameras. After several successful Kickstarter…
This tiny hotshoe mounted light meter helps you expose your old film cameras
Mar 1, 2020
John Aldred
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattbechberger/reveni-labs-light-meter-tiny-meter-for-your-old-cameras In this modern digital age, we just take for granted that our cameras contain light meters. And in mirrorless cameras, we can even see…
The NONS SL42 is the world’s first M42 mount instant film SLR camera
Feb 17, 2020
John Aldred
I’ve always loved the concept of instant film like Polaroids or Fuji Instax, but never it’s really interested me enough to buy into it. But…