Lunar eclipse
mushmouth26 from the MAKE Flickr photo pool posted up a picture from tonight’s lunar eclipse, nice work! If you took photos, post them up in the photo pool! Lunar eclipse on Flickr – Link.
Imaging
DIY SPACE – Make: Video Podcast
Make: is going to space! Have you ever wanted to go up into space? Well, you don’t have to win a golden ticket, be a millionaire, or an astronaut… you can send your own payload into space! We’re using weather balloons to go up to approximately 100k feet armed with 4 cameras… 20 megapixels of […]
DIY SPACE (PDF)
This project took a bit longer than a week and a total of 16 people contributed to the project. The only way this worked was to use a wiki. Each team member posted anything they learned or links and info they found on the wiki. All this research and work is now compiled on the […]
Airplane photography – 1920s
Here’s a great 400+ page book (free) for download from the 1920’s on airplane photography – Airplane Photography – Google Book Search – Link.
HOW TO – Make a juice box pinhole camera
Oatmealfight shows you how to make a juice box pinhole camera – Remember those juice boxes from when you were a kid? Well, aside from containing some of the tastiest beverages known to humankind, they now have an ulterior purpose. Ladies n’ Gents, I present the Juice Box Pinhole Camera. Juice Box Pinhole Camera – […]
Spontaneous combustion
Rich writes – What you are seeing is a capture of a lightbulb in the process of burning out. To create the shot, my friend Harley and I removed the glass enclosure of a standard household lightbulb (while leaving the innards intact) and powered it up in a pitch black room. The result was an […]
$60 jib “The Poor Man’s Jib”
Michael sent in how to build your own camera jib from $60 worth of do-it-yourself store supplies… $60 jib “The Poor Man’s Jib” – Link.
