555 timer – five boro bike tour time lapse
Phil mounted an old digital camera to his handlebars and then created a simple 555-timer based circuit to take pictures every 10 seconds, and put the pictures together for a video… Link.
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Tricks that enable you to take secret pictures
Spy camera tricks from Popular Science 1934- TRICKS used by press photographers and detectives come in handy when it is desired to snap imposed photographs of friends or members of the family. For such pictures photographers usually use tiny, easily concealed cameras. Despite their size, these midget cameras are surprisingly fast and accurate, and their […]
Google unveils tracking tech for in-store eyes
This is sorta scary- billboards that count eyeballs, but that just means someone is going to make an IR array at the right frequency, point it at these cameras and you’ll see a whole new type of click fraud… Google unveiled an eye-counting video camera Tuesday (May 8) that could enable the company to extend […]
MAKE pool slideshow on Flickr
Flickr has a new slideshow interface, go check out the MAKE pool! Link & join.
HOW TO – Make lenticular movie art (changes when you tilt)
Dave writes – I have a good friend who is an awesome artist. She has given me all sorts of great paintings in the past few years. I wanted to give her a piece of art that would really stand out as different. I wanted to experiment with lenticular sheets because I have always been […]
DIY camera GPS project for Nikon DSLRs
Chris writes – This page describes the steps I went through in my project to connect a Garmin eTrex Summit GPS device to a Nikon D200 camera body in order to record location information in the EXIF data of images captured using the setup. While this procedure worked fine for me, I do not take […]
HOW TO – Improve your photography with classical art
This is neat, make your photos look like they were “colored” by the old masters of painting… Adjusting your photographs to get the color ‘just right’ can be a chore. Think about this: The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on […]
