After we mentioned that bottlecap tripod a couple days ago, a few of your wrote in with your own DIY projects, and they were all very nice and stuff but posting news is hard work and we sort of, you ...

A do-it-yourselfer at Instructables shows you how to create a "string tripod" for your camera using about five dollars' worth of materials. This "old photographer's trick" involves connecting a cord ...

DIY site Instructables shows you how to turn nearly any plastic bottle into a tripod (make that monopod) for your camera. All you need is a screw-on bottle cap and a couple of dirt-cheap nuts and ...

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Sure, you could spend $200 on a set of CineSkates, a set of three wheels which turn your Gorillapod into a flexible, rolling tripod dolly. Or you could save $180 and make your own. Fungus Amungus, the ...

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Mount your camera on a standard tripod and drape a bean bag over the top-you'll achieve total stability for absolute image clarity with very slow shutter speeds. The lowly bean bag hasn’t a leg to ...

This DIY project combines bikes and cameras, a sure-fire way to make it into the pages of Gadget Lab. Better, it’s a super-simple and rather ingenious hack, straight from the cunning mind of cyclist ...

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When I went travelling for the first time with my Rebel, I only had the (excellent) 50mm f/1.8 lens, which translates to a mild 85mm telephoto on my cropped sensor. You can imagine that it was ...