The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
Check out this DIY semi-anamorphic pinhole camera from maker Costas Kaounas. Easy assembly from cardboard and black tape, the camera shoots 35mm film across an arch to capture a slightly semi-anamorphic image. [via DIYP]
Heading up this week’s MAKE Flickr pool roundup is this absolutely beautiful shot of an absolutely beautiful Halo prop helmet from user Tsabo Tsaboc. Other highlights include a Joule Thief from Lenny & Meriel, a lovely handmade switch box from Flabby Boohoo, and a pretty amazing view of custom bicycle legend whymcycle’s backyard. Check it out.
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw: Yarn bombing at Freedom Park, by iheartmytho, Contra Cross Stitch Scan, by shaebay, and Mr. Wolf Likes His Coffee, by sew.zinski.
Here’s a rather simple and creative film camera hack from San Francisco-based photographer, Ian Tuttle: He glued a pair of 1/8″ figurines inside of a Diana F+ medium format toy camera to cast a shadow onto the film when the exposure is made. The result is a set of spectator silhouettes gracing every frame. Four […]
Extremities is a short skateboard video that shows skater Aryeh Kraus with 6 tiny go pro cameras attached to his body and 3 more cameras filming from afar. One of the cameras is below the skate deck! You get to watch all of the skating from several perspectives simultaneously. It was filmed on a rare […]
Here at MAKE, we love both coffee and photography, but who knew that these two passions could be combined like this? Our friends at Photojojo have an excellent step-by-step tutorial on how to use instant coffee and vitamin C to process black and white negative film. Of course, there are a few other household ingredients […]
Carlos Agell of Irvine, CA, used an Arduino and Nootropic Designs’ Video Experimenter Shield to acquire images from an analog camera. The quality isn’t high, but it’s a neat hack!
