DSLR pinhole lens
Do you like the way a pinhole photo looks, but don’t have the time to develop the photo? That’s where the DSLR pinhole lens comes in. Maker Matt Devlin has put together a tutorial on how to make your own using household materials.
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Nature Textures Library
As a designer, I have a great love as well as a professional need for visual lexicons. Type faces, illustration, ephemera, old signage — you name it, I collect it. Textures are no different. It’s not infrequent that a texture is needed for a design project, and what better way to amass a royalty-free collection […]
Fisheye lens from decapitated soda can
San Francisco-based camera hacker extraordinaire Bhautik Joshi just posted a how-to on making your own fisheye lens using a soda can. From his site: Built using a fisheye peephole as the main lens element and a decapitated soda can as the lens body (!), this attaches directly to my SLR camera. For well under US$20, […]
Cheap portable book scanner Instructable
For about $20 in parts and a spare point-and-shoot digital camera you can build a cheap portable book scanner with this Instructable from DHagen.
Flashback: 2-Mile Camera Remote
We just shipped the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 22, to the printer, and my head is swimming with all things remote control, which is the theme. This got me to thinking about previous remote control projects that have graced the many pages of MAKE. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention, and maker Tom […]
Super simple camera crane for sweeping shots
Using some 2×2 lumber, scrap bolts and metal, and the stand from a work light, the folks behind colvins.ca built this DIY Camera Crane.
Ask MAKE: Hidden LCD screen?
Is there a way to develop a mirror capable of switching to the camera on cue by using a light switch or something along those lines?
