The folks at Lighthouse in a Tree have given the Dirkon DIY 35mm paper pinhole camera a facelift! Download their free PDF, print it, cut out the parts, follow their fancy 3D video of how to assemble the parts, and you’re good to go!
Download plans at Lightouse in a Tree
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Rewind your 35mm film all the way into the canister and need to get the leader out again? Here’s how to do it with a piece of film.
Flickr member fullframe writes:
The arrow is pointing in the direction you’re going to insert this into the canister. The hooks were cut into the sprockets to catch the sprockets of the film leader. This is just an illustration, you should cut more notches.
Once you have enough of this film puller in the canister turn the spindle counterclockwise (if you’re looking at the canister with the spindle pointing towards you) until you feel the hooks catch. Slowly pull the film puller out. If things work it should drag out the film leader. You may have to try more than once.
Based on original instructions by Andrew Davidhazy.
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f295 member greyhoundman has posted instructions for how to build an ultra-cheap filter holder for large format lenses:
Ok, I know someone probably sells an adapter for holding filters on a large LF lens. But, not around here, and I like to see what I’m buying.
So again I decided to build what I need.
I used, 1 thin CD case, a piece of PVC pipe and a 6-32 nylon thumbscrew…
Read instructions at the f295 DIY Photography forum
Again, the title says it all. Clear instructions, heaps of illustrative photos.
Read tutorial at Found Photography
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The title says it all! Step-by-step instructions with photos.
Read tutorial at Rangefinder Cameras of the Soviet Era
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I started out with a Minolta from 94′ or so that had a busted something or other. I also had a QuickCam express usb camera that would give us our ccd. After dissembling the quickcam with one screw and cutting the shutter from the Minolta we had done most of the work. Also we lost our IR filter when we ditched the old quickcam lens, so for now we get that sweet halo effect for free.
Read tutorial at how2.0
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I have to admit, I am tired of using Photoshop to create a pseudo Holga shot using javascripts found in flickr.com so I decided to just go ahead and hack my Holga CFN and give it a second life since all it has been doing is gathering dust. My plan—to hack the hell out of my holga and turn it into an EOS lens for my Canon 20D.
Read instructions at Litratista
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"Rebecca Hinden is obsessed with the red eyes that you see in photograph. For her latest project she’s made up red eye goggles that let you see red eye without having to take anyones picture and develop the photograph…"
Get the video with iTunes or download the MP4 file directly.
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Check out this lucid and easy-to-follow tutorial on matting and framing your artwork.
I spend a great deal of my expendable income on artwork and to allow myself to save money to eventually buy more, I mat and frame it myself. So, in case you find yourself in similar shoes, cutting your own mats is easy as pie…
Read tutorial at The Small Object
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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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