I’m shooting a lot of videos in the next couple weeks, so here’s a test AVI file right off the pocketable Canon TX1 that shoots pretty high res videos 1280 x 720 @ 30fps – Link (150mb). Filmed at 1am in Times Square – not bad considering the photon assault that was going on… Related: […]
Chris writes – Here are some pictures and plans of an homemade in-car camcorder mount. It fits very stiffness on the passenger’s seat headrest allowing hands-free filming from the driver’s viewpoint. To make your own that fits your car, you’ll need approx. 2 feet of 3/4" aluminum or steel square tube, 2 u-bolts, 4 wing […]
Check out the amazing pinhole photography by Justin Quinnell (he also has a kit so you can make your own mouth-shot photos) – [via] Link. Related: MAKE Video Podcast: Weekend Projects – Make a Pinhole … – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Project: Panoramic Pinhole Camera. Lenseless and low-tech, pinhole cameras have always been […]
David Bynoe, a Canadian artist, built this 20-foot-tall periscope, dubbed Blockwatch, in his backyard. Blockwatch – periscope surveillance system – [via] Link
Check out the great moon photos from MAKE Flickr photo pool member monopole2006 shot with a 127mm 1000mm FL Maksutov (Orion Starmax 127) w/ a 26 mm eyepiece Afocal imaging w/ a Nikon Coolpix 990 – Link.
Pop Sci has an amazing gallery from Nikon’s annual Small World Competition, some of the photos are of subjects less than half a millimeter! Link. Pictured here, Erpobdella octoculata (fresh water leech), magnified 25x. Photograph by Vera Hunnekuhl
It’s Chris Anderson Day on MAKE: Blog. Here, he shows off a gyro-stabilized camera mount he built for his RC plane. You can see more of his (and others) efforts at building amateur UAVs at DIYDrones.com. Gyro-stabilized camera mount – [via] Link
