Gamer Creates a Motion-Sensing Camera Controller for Pokemon Snap
Ever feel like having an actual camera controller for the latest Pokémon Snap game on the
How I Built a Star Tracker for DSLRs
My name is Gerald Gattringer, and I'm a photographer based in Austria. I recently built myself a custom star tracker for DSLRs, and it works pretty well! In this article, I'll share how I did it.
Photographer Captures Air Show with Nikon 800mm and Crazy Shoulder Rig
Photographer Jim Winters of Team Nikon Miami doesn't mess around when it comes to shooting an air show. He wants to get close, and he needs to stay mobile, so he leaves his tripod at home and mounts his massive Nikon 800mm f/5.6 VR lens onto this crazy custom-built shoulder rig instead.
Beautiful Aerial Photos Captured with a Custom-Built Drone and a 5D Mark III
Forget those dinky HD "cameras" attached to tiny quadcopter "drones," if you want to capture really amazing aerial shots, you have to do what Polish photographer Miron Bogacki did: build your own heavy-duty octocopter and slap a high-end full-frame DSLR on that bad boy.
Discover the Gorgeous Hand-Crafted Custom Cameras of Dora Goodman
Dora Goodman's hand-crafted custom cameras are beautiful... there's no other way to put it. Built on top of fully-functioning classic cameras, she turns already beautiful retro hardware into something spectacular.
A Custom-Built On-Location Tethering Workstation Complete with Speakers and a Place for Everything
For years and years I’ve worked on location, slowly I’ve moved over to tethered shooting and past two years I have been trying to shoot tethered as much as possible, I’m a big fan of it and I find it can really help a shoot and improve the images overall when everyone knows what they are working towards.
For those of you who aren’t up to speed on tethering it is effective connecting your camera to your computer and shooting to the hard drive on the computer rather than the memory card on the camera. There are a variety of advantages to using this method (speed, accuracy and client feedback amongst them) but there are hundreds of articles on various blogs about tethering so if you want to start using it just give it a google search. This post will be focusing on my case rather than the principles of tethered shooting.
A View Camera Photo Booth Created with a DSLR and Sawed Off iMac
For their Chicago-based rent-a-photobooth business Fotio, event planners Nick Harvey and Theresa McMullen created a custom camera rig that looks like a vintage view camera. The ingredients -- besides the wooden shell and bellows -- included a DSLR and an iMac.