CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw, Feather Brooch by AntiBromide, with tutorial, bike cushion!, by mandalinarossa, and The Wind and The Sail, by laurastantz.
Photography & Video
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.
Lo-Fi Camera Love
Browsing through the Winter 2011 issue of Anthology Magazine I came across a wonderful photo essay on Palm Springs by MAKE’s very own Jen Siska (Makeshift). Jen’s “visual travelogue” takes you through the sun-soaked San Jacinto Mountains and cacti-laced Mid-Century Modern dessert abodes, all captured with her Canon 5D Mark II (which retails for $2,500) … Save the last dreamy image of palms, shot by a $70 Holga CFN 120 (bottom left). It’s then that Anthology gives us a great little roundup of cheap cameras, ranging in price from $25 to $325, available from the cult favorite “analog photography” site, Lomography.
DIY Steadycam Arm
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.
How-To: Make Your Own Damn Springs
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.
Camera Hotshoe iPhone Mount
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.
DIY Cardboard Hasselblad Pinhole Camera
Adam @ Make: Online points us to Kelly Angood’s homemade cardboard pinhole camera, dolled up to look like a Hasselblad. It takes 120 film.
DIY Cardboard Hasselblad Pinhole Camera
Check out this Hasselblad pinhole camera from Kelly Angood. It accepts 120 film and looks looks a little less conspicuous than an oatmeal container.