Posts by Author: David Prochnow
Here is a thermal camera that connects to your phone for under $80
So, you have a fever of a hundred and three? You could just dance over to a thermometer and check your temperature. But that’s not…
‘Twas the camera before Christmas (a poem with profound apologies to Clement Moore)
‘Twas the camera before Christmas, when all through the storeNot a feature was stirring, not even a CMOS sensor;The neck-straps were hung by the film…
The $2,000 Light L16 Camera Rises from the Dead for $170, but There’s a Catch
Savvy, veteran DIYP readers will, no doubt, remember the “glory days” when Light Labs, Inc. released the L16 camera in 2017. This was the 16-lens…
Build a portable, touchscreen camera with just three parts
Let’s set the scene: you’re sitting in a shack on a frozen lake in northern Wisconsin when, suddenly, in the distant ice fog, you see…
Exclusive DIYP report: phone fakes a Hasselblad lens
If you are in the market for a Hasselblad phone, you’ll probably end up with a OnePlus unit, as they have a long collaboration with Hassy. The…
A model shootout challenge: make a model believable
Whoa; stop right here. You were probably expecting a photographic gallery of beautiful people, right? Please don’t leave, there really is information about photographing models….
Can you tell a glass lens from a plastic lens? I am not so sure!
A recent claim made by Lomography regarding an upgrade to its Lomo’Instant Wide Camera known as the Lomo’Instant Wide Glass has raised more than a…
Perfect, painless panoramic paper prints from your smartphone
Flexing your panorama s-t-r-e-t-c-h is one of the best photographic features found on many of today’s smartphones. In a simple sweep of the camera, huge…
Oh, snap: make a wired remote switch for your Canon camera, no soldering required – just plug and click
The days when shutter release buttons had a threaded socket for receiving a cable release are long gone. Until the advent of the self-timer, whether…
Mirrorless, mirrorless, on the wall, who’s the best one of them all?
There’s none that compares to the Canon EOS R100 for fair. (It shines even with the best Canon cameras)
