“Ring light is basically a light that is placed around the objective. In close-up and macro photography it covers the subject with even light that seems to come from all around the lense. This removes all the shadows from the surface of the object. A great thing if you are shooting a photo for a ring that you want to sell on ebay or some hardware close-ups for a review article.”
Alex sent me a DIY he just posted on how to fit an old Holga camera with a Medium Format digital back!
“We did it with an Imacon 96 digital back, since the company went out of there way to emphasize how it could be “adapted to any camera”…”
Nice.
Making a medium format digital Holga camera [link]
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.
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Great hack for Canon Nikon 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 Nikon D200 hotshoe GPS [link][via]
2009-01-06: Correction. It’s Nikon D200, not Canon! Thanks to Eric Duncan for pointing this out.
Turn some old SLR bellows into a homemade macro lens for your digital single-lens reflex camera.
DIY dSLR Macro Lens [link]
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]
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]
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