tripod
DIY Lens Support Bracket
The following article is a guest post by Dwight Duckstein. I purchased a used Nikkor 70-200mm, 2.8f lens – the old style that didn’t have…
The DIY Gorilla Pod
What do you get when you cross a Nine Cents Tripod with a Pocket Foldable Tripod? A DIY Gorilla Pod. Reader Alan Muller came up…
Just a Washer And a Bolt – An Ingenious Camera Stabilizer
It is amazing what you can do with one 1/4" bolt, a washer and a piece of string. With less then 1$ at Home Depot,…
Let Your Camera See The World – Kite Aerial Photography
The guys over at make magazine made a pretty awesome tutorial about constructing a Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) kit. They also have a cool video…
DIY – The Panorama Head El Cheapo!
How to take good panoramas? Sounds simple, right? Take some shots with some overlapping landscape, go to your favorite stitching software, and stitch them up…
DIY – Make a Free Light Stand Out of an Old Tripod
If you need a better way to hold the light you use while taking pictures with the DIY backdrop you just made, or you need…
DIY – The Spiderpod: a modification of Hunter Frerich’s wire tripod
Rob Rohde-Szudy from duckworksmagazine has a great improvment for the Hunter Frerich’s super duper tripod. Yes! here is another creative way to save some $$$…
DIY – Release Cable for Canon DSLRs
This is a very simple diagram and instructions for building a shutter release cable for a canon DSLR. Cable release is that thingamajig you use…
DIY – Cheap Mini Monopod
Looks like 1/4″ bolts are very useful. They have been attached to bottle caps and to wires to create several type of DIY tripods. here…
DIY – Pocket Camera Tripod
The following article will demonstrate how to build a useful tripod that’s easy to make and fits in your pocket. It uses stiff wire wrapped…




































