Repair the D300s
DIY, Nikon D300s, Nikon D400 Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Before the D400 comes and replaces the Nikon D300s, let’s see how you can repair the pent bent pin from a CF card connector. A time-lapse video. YouTube link
Lens repair
DIY, Sony accessories & lenses Thursday, April 21st, 2011You must not be too easily frightened to go and reapir your own photographic lenses. But with some patience, some tidiness and a lot of concentration… This is exactly what Fredy Willette of Alpha-Numérique teaches us in his article Réparation d’un problème d’engrenage sur un objectif non motorisé (Google English translation).
Nikon D7000 – Disassembly
DIY, Nikon D7000 Monday, March 21st, 2011
How would you take your Nikon D7000 apart? If you are not sure, I suggest you have a look at the following video from Thailand. YouTube link However, I would strongly suggest that you would try this only if the camera is broken and it’s already out of warranty. The Nikon D7000 is a fragile [...]
A Soviet Photoshop
DIY, Vintage - 2nd hand Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
A little historical gem: Soviet Russia had found a way to automate the photo image retouching jobs before the invention of Photoshop but with the help of a rotary scanner. YouTube link
Links between a flash and a studio
DIY, flash, Pro photo, Shoot Saturday, October 23rd, 2010A photographic studio is not only a place where there are too many cables on the floor. It could also be an excuse to find a lot of useful web links: High Speed Sync for flash at any shutter speed Almost Free DIY Paper Diffuser (Strobist) High Speed Photography Studio at Home You also have [...]
A simple variable Neutral Density filter
DIY Friday, August 13th, 2010A long post from Instructables (Simple Variable Neutral Density Filter) invites us to build easily a Neutral Density (ND) filter whose density can be adjusted (using only two polarizing filters). The simple and neat idea is to flip back one of the filters in front of the other. Correctly aligned, they become nearly totally black [...]
Big lenses for the iPhone
DIY, Nikon accessories & lenses Saturday, July 31st, 2010After some years of people trying to hook big lenses onto an iPhone (like above), there is now somebody trying to make this a serious affair: Here is the prototype of something that could become a real product from Vid-Atlantic, a way to solidly attach a Nikon DSLR lens to your iPhone. Little cameras like [...]
Stars: Both a portfolio and a DIY tutorial
DIY, Portfolios Tuesday, April 27th, 2010At first, Peter Shah seems to be the usual astronomy photographer. He goes out at night to look at the sky with a photo camera and a very big lens on a tripod. This is actually wrong. Peter Shah is actually a perfectionist. Where most amateur astronomers learned to grind a mirror by themselves in [...]
A gun to protect your photo luggage
DIY, Travel Sunday, April 25th, 2010photo credit: Tanozzo This is the surprising advice given by Bruce Schneier about how you could protect your photo luggage when traveling: Pack a starter gun in your luggage. This is definitely considered as a weapon by the TSA and other flight authorities (but it is not dangerous and you don’t need a license to [...]
DIY: Two projects
DIY Monday, March 29th, 2010Thanks to LifeHacker, there are two simple photography-related DIY projects that you can tackle during a rainy weekend. Build a Closet Photo Studio Build a DIY Digital Camera Scanner
Recent Comments