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.

How-To: Documentation Camera Dolly

I’m continually blown away with Steve Hoefer’s work. Check out his documentation camera dolly (complete with instructions): I know a lot of people who make lots of stuff. They even take the time to share as much as they can about their process. But documenting everything is a pain. It takes time away from the […]

Engineer Guy vs The LCD Monitor

Engineer Guy vs The LCD Monitor

For a few years now, Iโ€™ve had this hare-brained idea to try to separate the layers of polarizing film from a scrap LCD panel and make a polariscope out of them. So whenever I come across a dead one I tear it apart and do some experimenting. Probably been into half a dozen by now. But Iโ€™ve probably learned as much, or more, about how they actually work by watching Bill Hammackโ€™s video this week. As always, this segment has something to offer novices, experts, and those, like myself, who know just enough to be dangerous. [Thanks, Bill!]