Month: November 2009

  • Ultra-macro-photo on a telephone

    totally on the opposite side from the use of an SLR camera with a specialized lens, here is an article offering to use the lens stolen from a dead DVD player to transform a mobile phone into a ultra-micrographic photo camera. Apparently, the harder part is to attach the lens to the phone. But then,…

  • DIY tilt-shift lens

    When you want to go cheap, you’d better be able to build your own devices. For most photographers, a tilt-shit lens is often too expensive for something that you’ll nearly never use. So, why not build your own tilt-shift lens from cheap plumbing parts? Bhautik Joshi did exactly that. $10 for the whole project, including…

  • Mountain photography from a small plane

    When you are in a plane of a light plane flying near a mountain range, it is quite tempting to shoot a few landscape photos; But the conditions will stay very difficult for the photographer. There are many traps and the results may loose a lot of quality compared to what you expected. For example,…