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 [...]

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 [...]

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.) Via MAKE Blog

"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 Via MAKE [...]

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 [...]