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.

Camera built from thread spool

Camera built from thread spool

Here another one for this retro Sunday, it looks like a tiny pinhole camera inside a spool of thread (Popular Science 1940) – Link. We have tons of how-to guides on making pinhole cameras, so you could likely (re)make this.

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TV-Filter

TV-Filter

Aram writes “TV-Filter allows you to downsample an ongoing TV signal to 6 by 8 pixels in real-time. A translucent projection screen is mounted on a 5 cm deep cardboard grid. The color and intensity of each pixel is determined by the corresponding part of the TV screen on the backside. The different color information […]

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