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Homemade Photography Equipment

  • 29-03-2010 7:03pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭


    So i decided to make a homemade macro ring flash that is absolutely ridiculous looking but i have to say, it actually works amazingly so i was wondering if anyone else has any homemade photography equipment which they wish to share with us :)

    THE RIDICULOUS MACRO RING FLASH
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    THE RESULTS
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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭.Longshanks.


    I've got a few things floating about that I use.

    Snoot for my flash
    gobo.jpg

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    Welding glass filter
    photoqa.jpg
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    I've also got a flash diffuser made from a plastic milk bottle :D

    The more DIY the better for me



    *awaits somebody to post details of a homemade camera*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,711 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


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    Homemade Camera.

    /thread :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭dryadssaddle


    excellent stuff people. i too got some welding glass. works fine but is sometimes hard to keep light out and casts a horrible greeny colour that can't really be brought back to normal with white balance correction.

    have ou taken any photos with your homemade camera and if so, could you post them. i'd be very interested to see them :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,711 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    excellent stuff people. i too got some welding glass. works fine but is sometimes hard to keep light out and casts a horrible greeny colour that can't really be brought back to normal with white balance correction.

    have ou taken any photos with your homemade camera and if so, could you post them. i'd be very interested to see them :)

    Couple of the more successful ones here on this thread.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055838270&highlight=8x10

    I have colour negative paper in it at the moment waiting for the opportunity.


  • Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭dryadssaddle


    Couple of the more successful ones here on this thread.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055838270&highlight=8x10

    I have colour negative paper in it at the moment waiting for the opportunity.

    Jaysus, them phots are wicked, they actually look as if they were taken in the early 1900. great schtuff altogether :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,428 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Made a hotshoe viewfinder by taking apart an old disposable camera
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    and matchbox pinhole camera
    15E2DCB4537341EBB6A498F22B290B22-500.jpg
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/eolhc/sets/72157623196670910/

    mounted an slr lens on a cheap compact
    6E4F3EC93D474583AEAAFCF061ABFFC1-500.jpg
    http://pix.ie/ghosttrain/album/361850/goto/1366264


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭.Longshanks.


    Plastic mixing bowl, CD case, gutter downpipe connector, super glue and paint. Click for more details on flickr

    4611726428_57f58731f4.jpg

    Last pic was the first test shot, straight out of the camera. Now to find something better to use it on....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭theboat


    When I first started using my dad's camera, I was paranoid about taking it outside the house, but alas had no camera bag. I did, however, have ample supplies of duct tape and the polystyrene from the box our new t.v came in :D

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    6C4960D72022427CA2976F05E954ACE8-500.jpg

    It's not the most economical, space-wise, but it does have removable inserts for when I have a longer lens on it! It'll tide me over until I can afford a proper bag, anyway :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    It had been posted before, but why not. Old Kodak lens and few accessories form H-K:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    I've made a few cameras alright.

    I had a ceramic 10x8 a good while back, but I think it got scrapped :-/


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