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Replacing a Busted Camera Screen

Chris Connors — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:30:26 +0000

Somehow the screen on my digital camera got busted. Since the ill-fated, and mysterious demise of the back display, I've been limited to using the viewfinder. Last week, I finally got fed up with not being able to take a picture without my eye jammed into the cup. Since I use my left eye to compose, and just about every camera on the planet is designed for right-eyed people, it has never been convenient to look through a viewfinder anyway. Add eyeglasses to the mix and external screens definitely work better.

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Skill Builder: Caffenol Homebrew Film Developer

Matt Richardson — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:00:15 +0000

Only recently did I find out that you can develop negative film with instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda. This homebrew developer has become known as “caffenol” and there are plenty of photographers out there who have used this method in the darkroom. I read up on a few […]

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10 Weekend Photography Hacks on Make: Projects

Goli Mohammadi — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:00:06 +0000

What better way to wind down our Photo and Video Month on MAKE than with a roundup of 10 photography hack projects you can embark on this weekend. Check out our photography archive for the full month’s coverage and then some. All 10 of the projects listed below are available […]

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Cream-of-the-crop DIY Softbox Designs

Sean Michael Ragan — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:00:58 +0000

Thanks to Flickr user Matt Jones for hipping me to Udi Tirosh's recent homemade softbox design contest over on DIYPhotography.net. For those, like myself, who are unsure, a "softbox" or "soft box" is simply a diffuse lighting source for taking photos, commonly with a reflective interior and one or more diffusing panels that scatter the light and help prevent it from casting harsh shadows. The contest had seventy submissions, reportedly, and here you can read about Udi's top 24.

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DIY Panorama Rig

John Baichtal — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:30:32 +0000

Pete Prodoehl’s panoramic head is made out of scrap wood and L-brackets Pete had lying around. The bottom photo, showing Milwaukee Makerspace, is an example of a photo Pete took with it. Filed under: Photography & Video

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How-To: Cinemagraphs

Matt Richardson — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:00:49 +0000

While animated GIFs have been around for a while, they’ve recently been adopted by photographers to add small amounts of looping motion to otherwise still images. It’s no wonder they’ve been seen all over the web lately, as the result is often a quite entrancing moving photograph. If you’re interested […]

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Make: Live Episode 11: Photo and Video (preview video)

Becky Stern — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:00:57 +0000

Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep11 is all about photography and video. We’ll be giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how we put together Make: Live and Matt Griffin from MakerBot will show us how they make their timelapse […]

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DIY Semi-Anamorphic Pinhole Camera

Adam Flaherty — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Check out this DIY semi-anamorphic pinhole camera from maker Costas Kaounas. Easy assembly from cardboard and black tape, the camera shoots 35mm film across an arch to capture a slightly semi-anamorphic image. [via DIYP] Filed under: Photography & Video

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This Camera Mod Adds Sightseeing Silhouettes

Matt Richardson — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:00:29 +0000

Here’s a rather simple and creative film camera hack from San Francisco-based photographer, Ian Tuttle: He glued a pair of 1/8″ figurines inside of a Diana F+ medium format toy camera to cast a shadow onto the film when the exposure is made. The result is a set of spectator […]

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How-To: Develop Film with Coffee and Vitamin C

Matt Richardson — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:00:08 +0000

Here at MAKE, we love both coffee and photography, but who knew that these two passions could be combined like this? Our friends at Photojojo have an excellent step-by-step tutorial on how to use instant coffee and vitamin C to process black and white negative film. Of course, there are […]

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