Enterprise Chandelier, For The Geeky
I know my wife would love to have me hang up this Enterprise chandelier in our dining room. She would love it so much that it would easily be grounds for her to divorce me. On the other hand, if your already single and your a hardcore trekie then this $189 USS Enterprise chandelier might [...]
Homebrew Flashlight As Powerful As A Star
Interested in lighting up your own soccer field? Why not send morse code to any visiting aliens with The “MaxBlaster”. A 38 million candle power flashlight that is just as powerful as a miniature star when seen from a distance. Dutch optics engineer Ralf Ottow started the project by taking apart a commercial flashlight, inserting [...]
DYI Photo Snoot
Although a snoot might seem like someone who is rich and wealthy in reality it’s a photographers secret weapon when creating dramatic lighting. Weather you want a dramatic highlight or an eerie vignetting effect, a snoot can help limit the spread of light from a flash. With some gaffer tape and some cardboard you can [...]
Nikon D60 Leak
Since the arrival of the interweb it’s pretty hard to keep a secret, unless your Apple of course who threatens their employes so that any leak is quashed. Either that or they sick their insanely huge team of lawyers on you that you just give up. Nikon is set to release it’s new D60 DSLR [...]
USB Controlled Colour Changing Light
The guys over at DYI Life have an awesome project to light up your life, a USB colour changing light controller. This little circuit will mix the light from high-powered LEDs to create more than 16 million colors. You can either hook it up to a USB port for complete control of your personal light [...]
Semi-Pro Light Kit For $75
A quick trip to your local big box hardware store and a few bucks and you too can turn that spare room into a professionally lit porn natural model studio you have always dreamed of having. That is of course, if you have some camera equipment to go with it. It’s going to be pretty [...]
Cheap Photo Studio Lighting
I’ve always been a sucker for anything with a lens. Between shooting Digital Underground.tv and my amateur (and i mean amateur) photography hobby trying to get good at both costs both time and money. I can’t help you with the time factor, but this is a great money saver. Lighting is always the get to [...]
Build your own Camera light
With more and more point and shoot cameras having video functionality lighting can quickly become and issue. Now you could spend $60-$80 purchasing a light unit that slips into the hot-shoe or one that screws on the bottom, but why do that when you can build one for about $2. The guys over at ProdMod [...]
How To: Add RAW support to low end Canon camera
This is a great how-to on making a cheap Canon digital camera with a firmware mod much more powerful. If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for more expensive SLRs. That includes live histograms, depth-of-field calculation, under and overexposure [...]
