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If you take lots of photographs of small items, you mind find it easier if you had a stand to take steady overhead shots. Instructables user vkoudymov designed this wooden unipod to inexpensive do the job which is easy to make as long as you have access to a drill press.
Basically you're cutting a 30" long piece of ¾" lumber into various sizes, drilling holes, and assembling bolts with wingnuts. You'll end up with a a clamp that can attach to most tables and three adjustment points for your camera.
Full instructions, materials lists, and step-by-step photos can be found at the source link below.
iOS: One of the best complete camera packages on the iPhone, Camera+ updated today with the ability to share to multiple social sites at once, a workflow system for quickly taking pictures, independent focus and exposure locks, and more.
Camera+ is already our pick for the best camera app on the iPhone and these updates certainly help. The photo sharing now allows you to share multiple pictures to multiple accounts at once, which is a great time saver if you tend to upload to Facebook and Flickr at the same time. Also added is the ability to lock your focus and exposure independently of each other so you can customize your picture more than you could before. A few other changes include options for setting different workflow types, a new interface, improved performance on the iPhone 4S, and a few bug fixes. The update is free for current users, but Camera+ is also on sale for 99¢ for those who haven't picked it up yet.
If you missed out on the last free online storage space offer from Dropbox, here's another one you can grab: a total of 3GB of extra space just by using the Camera Upload feature to put photos and videos into Dropbox.
If you took advantage of the beta offer in February (February 2 to 23) when Dropbox offered 5GB of extra space, but didn't finish uploading for some reason, you can still upload your photos and videos and get the max 5GB instead of the 3GB, but it doesn't look like you can grab an additional 3GB on top of that.
Everyone else can bump up their storage space to a total of 3GB extra by using the Android app's camera upload feature or the Camera Upload feature from the desktop application; you'll need the experimental forum build (1.3.4 or higher) for the desktop app. The camera upload feature automatically uploads photos and videos to your Dropbox account.
Dropbox will add 500MB of free space the first time you add a photo or video using the feature, then for every 500MB you upload, another 500MB of extra storage.
See the Dropbox help page below for more info or the comments in our previous post about the 5GB offer for some useful tips on getting enough photos and videos uploaded.
How do I get free space for using Camera Upload? | Dropbox via Slickdeals
Ever wanted to build your own tiny remote monitoring camera to keep track of who's sticking their hand in the cookie jar? The Internet of Things camera is an open-source camera build based on an Arduino that can be set up to snap pictures at regular intervals or even with a motion sensor.
Created by the parts supplier and Arduino tutorial creator Adafruit, the camera is built using an Arduino, an Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD card, a TTL Serial JPEG camera, and a few other parts. Once built, you can set the camera to take pictures at regular intervals for some simple time-lapse photography, or connect it to a motion sensor and use it as a cheap security system to see what your loved ones are doing around the house when you're not home. It's a pretty simple build and you can find the full tutorial, software, and parts list over on Adafruit.
No shortage of clever iPhone camera hacks exist, but Scientific American found out that adding a drop of water on the lens of the camera creates a free magnifying glass and some cool effects.
The process is pretty simple. Place a drop of water on the phone's lens and carefully turn the device over. The suspended drop of water acts like a magnifying glass on the lens. Scientific American adds:
Larger, rounder droplets lead to higher magnification, and as the droplet evaporates and shrinks magnification decreases.The liquid lens is jiggly and sensitive to vibrations. The phone should be placed on a stable platform for maximum clarity.
That second note is a big one. It's almost impossible to hold the phone with your hands and steady it enough to snap a picture. Still, it's not a bad little hack considering it's completely free and while the post talks about the iPhone specifically it should work on most camera phones. Hit up the post on Scientific American for a bunch of samples and a few more tips to using the water for a good effect.
DIY physics guru David Prutchi coveted one of the expensive professional-grade gyroscopic camera stabilizers made by Kenyon Laboratories. “These devices,” he observes, “don’t seem to have changed much since Kenyon’s founder filed the following two patents in the 50's: US2811042, US2570130.” Referencing those patents, David reverse-engineered the basic geometry of the Kenyon stabilizer using a pair of inexpensive precision gyroscopes from Glenn Turner of gyroscopes.com. These are really beautiful machines, in and of themslves, each of which costs a bit less than $100US as of this writing. Positioned on a bracket suspended below the camera in use, the two gyroscopes are driven by electric motors and mounted on gimbals with their axes crossed on symmetrical oblique angles that provide both horizontal and vertical stabilization components. [Thanks, David!]
SD cards have started getting cheaper, and you can find some pretty huge cards at prices that seem worth the joy of never swapping out cards again. Here's why that could be a bad idea.
Weblog Techerator notes that, while we never expect SD cards to fail, they can do so at inopportune times, just like the hard drives in our computer. This is why we regularly back our computers up, even if we have a brand new drive—sometimes things just happen. However, we don't always have this opportunity with SD cards:
Since you can't really back up a memory card when you're out in the field shooting photos and video, how do you protect yourself against bad luck? Well, there's obviously no way to fully protect your memory card data if you can't back it up, but there's still a way to lessen the disaster level when a memory card takes the plunge.
Instead of getting just one high-capacity memory card and risk losing all of your photos, have multiple low-capacity cards. That way, if one craps out, you'll still have a majority of your photos that are safe, instead of having all of them go down the drain at once.
Instead of worrying about capacity, see if you can't get some higher speed cards instead, or ones designed to survive the worst of conditions. That way, if one fails, you haven't lost everything—you've only lost a batch or two of photos. Of course, this only really matters for you serious photographers that are taking hundreds of pictures at once, but it's something to think about if you regularly run out of space on your current card. Hit the link to read more.
Think Again Before Buying a High-Capacity Memory Card | Techerator via #tips
SD cards have started getting cheaper, and you can find some pretty huge cards at prices that seem worth the joy of never swapping out cards again. Here's why that could be a bad idea.