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Flickr member Dark Orange says:

Can’t buy the film you want any more? Just make the stuff!

In this set you will find random photos and information on a project a friend has undertaken - a machine to make his own camera film.

Plastic and goop go in one end, and camera film comes out the other end. This is not a trivial undertaking.

*update*

This bit of hardware seems to have created a bit of a stir…

On APUG

On galerie-photo

On the Nelson Foto Forums

Via MAKE Blog

Flickr member potatomato posted a photo set on how he made a flash diffusor from a plastic take-away container.

He writes:

The Gary Fong Lightsphere is a flash diffuser that is gaining popularity with wedding and portrait photograhers world wide. His product is selling at a pace that the manufacturer can’t keep up with. This Flickr photoset demonstrates the use of a to-go container to make your own.

View photo set on Flickr

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Check out Flickr member Zaphod Beeblebrox’s homemade ultra-wide 6×9 camera! Makes me wonder why some of the ultra-wides sold by commercial manufacturers charge over a thousand US dollars for what’s essentially a lens board to film back spacer. (Though, in all fairness, they do throw in a spirit level.)

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"This reflector panel holder made of 3/4 inch PVC pipe is handy if you have a spare tripod to use. The tripod provides a stable base that can be adjust for height and tilt angle. Reflector is the collapseable type used for an auto windshield (31 x 38 inches)…"

Continue reading at DIYphotoraphy.net

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f295 member Andrew has converted his homemade anamorphic pinhole camera—where instead of light going straight through the opening and striking the film head-on, the film is formed into a circle and the light is projected into its center from above—to use a lens, and the results are stunning!

Andrew writes, "To get a lens anamorphic camera with the least possible effort I modified the pre-existing ‘black box of hell’ pincam. The p_p_p_pinhole is mounted in the ‘lid’ so I just made a new lid and mounted an 85mm lens stripped off a dead Agfa Isolette…"

Continue reading and see photos of and plans for the camera here, and photos that he took with it here at the f295 DIY Forum.