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.
We’ve seen our share of DIY steadycam rigs, but this arm and harness system from maker Miguel Vincente is worth checking out. Built using square tube and custom springs from a little shop in Madrid, the unit can support up to 2.5 Kg.
Idahoan Dean Williams used to make a living by repairing vintage mechanical cameras. If you’ve ever pulled your hair out trying to replace a small spring that hasn’t been manufactured since the factory was bombed by Göring’s Luftwaffe, you may be interested in his well-documented DIY method. Dean’s trick for annealing them inside a wad of steel wool in a toaster oven is worth a click all by itself. His entire site, in fact, will likely be of interest to those who appreciate close mechanical work.
Have you ever found that you needed to mount your iPhone on your DSLR? This can come in handy when you’re using apps like Pocket Light Meter and PanoTool. German photographer Nigel Nowhere pieced together this quick iPhone hotshoe mount for just such a purpose. You can build one for yourself with his easy to follow how-to.
Adam @ Make: Online points us to Kelly Angood’s homemade cardboard pinhole camera, dolled up to look like a Hasselblad. It takes 120 film.
Check out this Hasselblad pinhole camera from Kelly Angood. It accepts 120 film and looks looks a little less conspicuous than an oatmeal container.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Final Aztec coin by onorio.depiro.
Hot rod soldering iron by Jonathan M. Guberman.
Legs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Lenny&Meriel.
Putting out the Fire by norrislabs
stereo – april 1979 by lookseeseen,
Handmade Synthesizer by MichaelRucci.
The iPhone Guru posted this how-to on making your own infrared transmitter so that you can use your iOS device (such as iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad) as a remote control for your DSLR. This hack is a quick one and you may even have the required components already. On the software side, you’ll need […]
