Posts Tagged ‘camera’
Friday, February 29th, 2008

What to do when the global stock of instant film has been depleted? Turn your old Polaroid camera into a web cam! Re-purposing this cultural icon (is it the theme of the week?) is a great idea, bringing this classic design into the 21st century. A great gift idea too.
Long live the Polaroid Webcam [link]
I altered the time stamp so this post shows up yesterday, because I was out having a nice dinner with friends instead of writing this entry. Hope you won’t mind.
Tags: camera, polaroid, recycling, repurposing, upcycling, usb, web-cam, webcam
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
![Canon D200 hotshoe GPS [link]](http://www.diyblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/d200-gps-2.thumbnail.jpg)
Great hack for Canon D200 owners: make a relatively cheap GPS that will transmit coordinates to the camera. Take a picture, and it gets stamped with the GPS coordinates. Not too shabby. I guess this would be great for traveling bloggers, photojournalists, or even artistic projects.
Canon D200 hotshoe GPS [link][via]
Tags: camera, canon, dslr, gps, hotshoe, slr
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Monday, February 18th, 2008

The Street Grip is a useful camcorder accessory for use in action shots - think skateboard videos. It serves two purposes: a handle to grab your camera and an armor to protect it.
DIY Camcorder Street Grip [link][via]
Tags: action, camcorder, camera, film, pvc, street
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Turn some old SLR bellows into a homemade macro lens for your digital single-lens reflex camera.
DIY dSLR Macro Lens [link]
Tags: camera, glass, lens, metal, slr
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008

A very interesting project from KipKay (you might have heard of him through Metacafe): recycle a broken or obsolete camcorder and make a night vision camera out of its viewfinder. You’ll also need a few other components for this build but all the parts are reasonably inexpensive, considering the result. Best of all, you can output the video to record on a camcorder.
DIY Nightvision Headset [link]
Tags: camera, ccd, dark, infrared, led, night, nightvision, vision
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Bullet time. You know what I’m talking about. When time stops in a movie and the camera swirls around the scene. It’s an (overused for quite some time) effect that’s been introduced in the first Matrix movie. Still interesting though. Here’s how you can do it.
DIY Bullet Time Photography [link]
Tags: bullet time, camera, Photography
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