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If you need a cheap way to bounce some light, don’t want to spend a wad of cash on …

Photographer Adrian Onsen wanted to use the AI Servo autofocus mode on his …

Reflector mounts (the things that attach a reflector to your bike) are so cheap that bike shops often give …

Here's another quick tutorial by Destin, the guy who helped popularize using chickens as a cheap Steadicam alternative. It was made on an airplane flight when he wanted to shoot some photographs of the ice forming outside his window. If you're ever in a situation where you want to shoot a macro photo but don't have a macro lens, try flipping your lens around for a cheap and easy macro photography solution.

The Coleman LED Quad Lantern is an area lantern that features four detachable LED panels that function as individual lights, with each one containing six LEDs, a handle, and a rechargeable battery. While it's designed for outdoor use (e.g. camping), it can also be used as a cheap solution for lighting your photos on the go.

You can pick up a mini tripod for your compact camera over at …

Transforming foods into pinhole cameras appears to be one of the popular trends. We already shared the egg pinhole camera, and now here's the pine nut pinhole camera. Italian photography student Francesco Capponi created this tiny camera by painting the inside of the shell black, poking a hole in one side, loading it with a piece of photographic paper, and using his thumb as a shutter. He calls it the "PinHolo", a play on words since "pinolo" is Italian for "pine nut".

If you have an old or broken flatbed scanner lying around and gathering dust, a neat thing you can …

Flickr user Steve Kushnir came up with this neat idea of building a cheap DIY diffuser using a Pringles can, two layers of paper towels, and some rubber bands. He attached it to his Nikon D5000's popup flash and uses it for macro photographs of creepy crawlies.

Andrew Lathrop came up with this novel way of building a simple radiation detector using an old compact camera, …

Have an older camera that doesn’t have a built-in light meter? Instead of buying an expensive light …

Who says you need uber-expensive lighting equipment to shoot nice-looking studio portraits? In this video, photographer …

If you’re looking to buy used camera gear on sites like eBay or Craigslist, a trick you can use …

Rather than using more expensive bags or cases for moving around your lighting gear, you can buy a bass …

It’s a good time to be a digital photographer — massive hard drives are becoming cheaper than ever, making …

If you want to play around with lo-fi photography, you don't have to venture into the world of analog or hack together a DIY lens for your DSLR. There's cheap plastic lenses you can buy for a toy-camera look, and one of them is the Holga HL-N lens available for both Canon and Nikon mounts.

Last year we posted a tip on how you can use jar openers to remove stuck lens filters, but have you ever thought of using them as a cheap follow focus? Tony Carretti was shopping at Bed, Bath & Beyond when he came across a twist jar opener in the kitchen aisle that he realized could be used on his camera.

Photojojo has a new ring flash adapter that allows you to shoot soft, studio-style portraits without shelling out the big bucks for an actual ring flash. It's a plastic add-on with a reflective circle that simply channels the light from your existing flash, so it doesn't require any batteries.

Photographer John B. Crane was ice climbing in Colorado when he came upon a little ice cave full of "tiny wonders". Wishing he had a green gel, he suddenly had the brilliant idea of using some Fruit Roll-Ups he had brought along for that purpose.

Amazon’s Gold Box deal of the day today is Adobe Lightroom 3 for …

YouTube user havok2 created this creative follow focus using LEGO Mindstorm pieces. It’s …

For Christmas, I received a Canon 60D. I’m definitely still learning how to use it, but I’m excited to have it. The first big problem I encountered, besides the need for more regular exercise so I can lift the beast, is that I am going to lose the camera lens cap. I take this cover off the lens and leave it everywhere. I had the camera for about 4 days before I was considering checking the price on replacing it. Lucky for me, I came up with a better idea while I still knew where it was. Instead of waiting until I lost it, I made it a little pouch that slides onto my camera strap.

I had some stuff lying around as well as saw some parts as I was out and thought this would be fun to make. I have around $20 invested in parts. On eBay I saw ring lights for anywhere around $40 on up, so this will save you money and it was fun to make.

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If you use the LCD on your DSLR for shooting images or video, you probably know how much of …

Erik Pettersson was looking for a nice digital frame, but found that all the commercially available ones were too …

There’s a sweet deal on some popular magazines going on over at Discount …

Need to hold down the shutter release for extended periods of time, but don’t want to shell out money …

Apple launched its new Mac App Store yesterday, along with an App Store …

Time-lapses are usually created using intervalometers — devices that electronically trigger the shutter …

While adding movement to time-lapse videos is cool, the special equipment (e.g. dollies, cranes, etc...) you need can be pricey. Derek Mellott couldn't afford to shell out hundreds of bucks for a dolly, so he decided to make his own using things found in his garage. His resulting setup included tripods, a cable management tray, a TI-calculator as an intervalometer, and a BBQ rotisserie motor to slowly pull the camera along.

Instructables member willferrari599 recently posted a funny tutorial on how to turn a …

I have always been enthralled ring flashes, but they are so expensive! I recently found a pizza box ring flash how to, but it didn’t go on my camera (it was meant as an off camera ring flash) so I made some changes. And here, for all to use, is my version of the pizza box ring flash.

Flickr member scenery_and_fish found a Kowa 65mm f/0.75 x-ray lens, and mounted it to a Nikon D90 by using macro extension tubes and epoxy. The lens is fixed focus, lacks an iris, and is one beastly piece of glass.

Did you know that reading glasses can be used as a cheap macro lens for your camera phone? Make reader Sean Lee discovered this neat hack and wrote a short tutorial on the technique.

If you need some quick white balancing for whatever reason, and don’t have a white balance card or Expodisc …

Today I spent a couple of hours designing and making a simple box to fit directly onto a normal flash unit. I also made a couple of colored filters. After doing all this I thought I could share this with others and hopefully make them happy by doing so.

Amazon is selling the 10 megapixel Panasonic DMC-F2K Lumix compact camera for $69 …

Update on 12/9/21: This video has been taken down by the creator. YouTube user Prippman created this nifty follow focus …

Want more precision in your focus adjustments when shooting video with your DSLR, but don't want to shell out money for a pricey follow focus? Flickr user Adam Lisagor shot this photo showing how he created his own DIY follow focus for $6. All you need is a steel hose clamp, drawer handle, nut, and bolt. Drill a hole through the clamp, and put it together as shown above.