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Easychrome: A DIY Aerochrome-Emulating, Color-Infrared Point & Shoot Camera

Steven Saphore

Got an old camera? Make an Easychrome: The DIY Aerochrome-emulating, LO-FI color infrared point & shoot. The closest thing to digital Aerochrome yet!

6 DIY Holiday Gifts For The Photographers In Your Life

Chris Nachtwey

What are you to do when you have no idea what to buy the photographers in your life? Go the DIY route!

Possibly The Best DIY Beauty Dish There Is

Kishore Sawh

Beauty dishes don't come cheap, but if you're willing to trade some off time and elbow grease you may just be able to have a great one at little cost.

An Inexpensive Way to Calibrate Focus on Your DSLR For Sharper Images | AF Fine Tune

Hanssie

Focus calibration doesn't have to be expensive or difficult, try this method out and see if you can save yourself some time and money.

DIY: Build A Camera Slider With Bearings For Under $100

Anthony Thurston

Quality bearing based sliders can be quite expensive. If you don't mind going DIY though, we have a great build to share with you that you can make for under $100.

DIY Tilt-Shift Lens Made With a Broken Canon 50mm f1.8 and Some Duct Tape

Hanssie

Sawing a broken 50mm 1.8 in half and using duct tape, photographer Witono Halim made a tilt shift lens for about $27.

DIY Light Table for Quick Negative Scanning

Justin Heyes

Photographer Marius Hanzak has a low cost DIY project that can help you digitize that box of negatives that you have been putting off.

DIY: Build a Simple Ring Light Using LED Strips and a Frisbee For Around $30

Hanssie

Photographers tend to have a love/hate relationship with ring lights. While ring lights may be great for some situations, in others, it may look completely dreadful. So why spend a couple hundred dollars on one when you can just rig one together for around $30?

Camera Obscura Made With An Old Flatbed Scanner and Some Gold Duct Tape

Hanssie

Why buy a camera when you can build your own? For Joe Barone, building a camera is just part of the photographic process. He built his with an old scanner and some duct tape.

Super Cheap DIY Diffuser & A Short Color Grading Tutorial to Get That ‘Cinematic’ Look

Hanssie

Short on cash? Here's a cheap hack to get some nice diffusion for a cinematic look and a bonus color grading tutorial.

See the ‘World In Infrared’ With Your Own DIY Conversion

Hanssie

Turn that old Canon Rebel into an Infrared camera and create cool images. This guy did.

DIY: Build An ‘Insanely Bright’ LED Light Panel For $70

Hanssie

In the following video, DIY Perks shows you how to make your own $600ish very bright LED light panel for around $70.