Callum writes – My friend loves to ride his bike and he takes photos all the time so for his birthday I thought a handlebar camera mount would be perfect. I managed to make it from parts I had in my spares box and some normal workshop hardware. – An old speedometer mount – Pond […]
James from Retrothing writes in – I’ve been working on a Super 8 movie making magazine called smallformat with a bunch of dedicated Super 8 filmmakers from Europe. We’re putting the finishing touches on our ninth issue this week. It’s an eclectic mix of nostalgia and modern filmmaking information that introduces the ‘digital generation’ to […]
Here’s how to organize a collection of things using Flickr, in this example an impressive 20 year collection of superballs. Lenore writes – Flickr is a great tool for organizing a collection. You can upload your photos and apply titles, tags and descriptions, which is a sneaky way of cramming a lot of indexed data […]
Jake writes – Making nice photographs when all you have for lighting is a bunch of tungsten shop lamps can be a real challenge. It is particularly hard to photograph polished brass under these conditions. So this weekend I set out to build a flash diffuser to improve the quality of the photography on this […]
Andrew sent in how to fit a Canon MVX430 mini DV camera into the wrong underwater housing Link.
SixMhz writes – Last year while shark fishing off the Dumbarton Pier and recording the catch on a 20 year old VHS camera I had an idea. I thought of how cool it would be to jam a camera in the mouth of a big shark and let him swim away so then you could […]
Carl writes – I’ve always been a fan of the 360 degree photographs of products. Purchasing the equipment would be ridiculously expensive but creating (MAKEing) comparable equipment at home was basically free and yielded great results! the WAREHOUSE – Link. Related: HOW TO – Inexpensive Panoramic Video – Link. DIY Pan jig side – Link.
