DIY: Canon EF – Holga Lens
Kim has hacked his dusty holga camera and turn it into a Canon EF lens for his Canon 20D. What you need is EOS body cap, EOS lens cap, Holga lens, Empty 35mm film canister, Scissors, xacto knife and some super glue, Electric drill with 1 in. hole bit, and a 3/16 in. drill bit, Dremmel with sanding attachment.
“The process was really simple and it took me about three hours to finish the project from thinking up how to do it to finally getting the vignetting right. The good thing about this experimental home made lens is that I can focus from 5 inches away to infinity.”
Check out some sample photos taken with this lens here
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DIY: Make a Fisheye Digital Camera for $20
Can’t afford to buy a fisheye lens which can cost you hundreds of dollars? The people of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments University of Kentucky have done a paper with instructions to make your own digital fisheye cameras capable of both still and motion capture, either independent of a computer or under wired computer control, can be assembled for a total cost of less than $20 US.
>> Fisheye Digital Imaging For Under $20
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DIY: Disposable Camera Flash Slave
Greg Lipscomb has built a camera flash slave using a photocell and a microcontroller for trigger and timing.
“Anyway, I decided I wanted to make an external slave. I thought about buying a slave peanut trigger. This is a little device that does exactly what I wanted to build. I would merely connect the flash switch to the peanut. I could not find one, so I decided to build my own.”
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DIY: $10 Digital Camera
elephantstaircase.com has an article on how you can turn a ‘disposable ‘digital camera which normally costs you around 10 bucks into a camera that you can use over and over, just like a normal digital camera.
Visit Ten Dollar Digital Camera
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DIY: Cheap Digital Picture Frame
Want to save around 100-200 bucks on Digital Picture Frame? joedog86 has written a quite good instruction on how you can make your own Digital Picture Frame for less than $100.
“I basically made this as a birthday present for my girlfriend. Looking for an awesome gift idea? This is it! Total cost was under $100, and could be substantially less if you’re savvy.”
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