Design News shows you how to make a “slave strobe” for your camera – “Photography enthusiast Nick Pagazani was hindered by the range and fixed location of his camera’s flash. Since his camera has no connector for an external flash, he needed a light-activated slave trigger to fire a remote strobe. It had to ignore […]
Since January 1st of 2006, Aaron Freedman and his father, David, have been working on the “jumpingboy” project–every day, they take a photo of Aaron jumping and post. The photos are unretouched camera originals (mostly shot with Aaron’s Canon Powershot digital camera).” – Link.
Mac writes – “I’ve been wanting to build a 360-degree panoramic scanning camera (or PanoramaScanCam, as I call it) for some time. The planets finally aligned (Actually, I was able to obtained a flatbed scanner and software to support it.), so I’ve started the project. Rather than waiting for completion of the project before posting […]
Paul Beard‘s made up a cool cigar box pinhole camera. A brief overview of the cigar box pinhole camera I built yesterday and today. Built around a 4×5 film holder. Focal length of about 30mm, pinhole of indeterminate size, f/stop 100-150, I think. So reasonably fast — 1-2 second exposures in Sunny 16 conditions. Lessons […]
Jesse writes – “Brenda, my wife got me this stereoscope from an antique shop, they are pretty common. It didnt have any stereogram cards to look at or a holder for the cards. I had it for a while. Then this idea happened in my brain. I got an iRiver clix and thought, its small […]
Mark writes – “Here’s how to make stereo photographs using a regular camera by making a tripod slide bar – Using materials available in most home improvement stores you can make 3D images!” – Link. Related: HOW TO – Create stereo photographs – Link. HOW TO – “Stereo” from the air – Link.
David writes – “An image scanner can make great pictures of circuit boards. Not only are the pictures clear, they are very high resolution and have nearly perfect scaling. Perfect scaling means that you can actual make measurements from the image. Try that with a digital camera!” – Link.
