Regular followers of Photocritic know I don’t have a lot of time for the Holga, as illustrated in this post. The response to that post was ear-deafening: The blogosphere (ick I hate that word) went mental at me in the defence of the Holga.
The other day, Robin McAulay tried to be a little bit more eloquent of the Holga. He succeeded, and offers the following guest article… Read the rest of the article »
A couple of months ago, we did a feature on how you can remove the IR filter from a digital SLR, to enable it for Infra Red photography. All good and well, but surely, that filter was there for a reason?
One of our readers was wondering about just this, and sent me a question: “I was wondering If it was possible to have a external IR filter that threads onto my lenses that will block the IR light to the sensor but still transmit all visible light through it, mimicking the original internal IR filter that was previously attached to the cameras image sensor?” Read the rest of the article »
Lomography has been covered at length before, but people keep giving me fantastic tips about lomo photos, so I just can’t help but going back to the topic again and again.
This time, I got a tip about someone who’s made a digital version of the Lomo Coloursplash - essentially a cheap camera with a coloured gel in front of the flashgun.
What a brilliant idea! Read the rest of the article »
We’ve told you what Lomography is, how it works, and we’ve even established that, while the results are rather special, Lomography doesn’t magically defy the laws of physics (aw, shucks).
But what do you do if you cannot be bothered to actually buy a Lomo camera?
Enter the 21st century: What we can’t do with cameras, we’ll replicate digitally! The upside of this is that there are quite a few different ways to Lomotomize* a photo! Read the rest of the article »
There are cheap projects, and then there are Cheap projects. This is one of the latter, no doubt. In this project, we aren’t modifying a camera, we’re building one completely from scratch! And is that wasn’t enough, you can do so with some tape, some paper, a paperclip… You get the picture: Just stuff you have kicking about the office. Read the rest of the article »
Another of those dirt-cheap yet incredibly useful camera modifications - quickly detachable neck straps!
There are tons of reasons for why you could want to remove the neck strap from your camera. If you’ve got a light camera, most of the time you don’t need it anyway, but even for SLRs, it makes sense: Straps can get caught in the wind, or you may prefer to keep your strap on a very short length, which makes taking it off and on tricky. Read the rest of the article »
A lot of pinhole photography stuff recently, but that’s because it’s cool, yo!
My old mate over at PhotoThoughts keeps coming up with these groovy, outlandish camera mods, and I love him for it: Read the rest of the article »
So, you’ve gone tired of making pinhole cameras out of milk cartons, tins, and boxes? You are thinking bigger? These guys built a pinhole lorry, using the entire loading bed as a pinhole camera!
American photographer Shaun Irving and English Art Director Richard Browse have created what they believe to be the world’s largest mobile camera. Designed in America and constructed in Spain, the cameratruck is a simple box camera built right inside a standard delivery truck. Measuring 5 metres long, 2 metres wide and 2 metres high, the gigantic camera is capable of taking pictures almost 3 metres across. Read the rest of the article »
I think this write-up by GPS aware is most likely to be a joke (the quality of the pictures doesn’t inspire much faith, anyway), but it seems to be a funny project anyway. It re-opens the ages-old discussion of “So, I have a great 35mm camera, why can’t I convert it into a digital camera?”. Read the rest of the article »
Remember when you were young, wearing blue-and-red 3D glasses to make the world go all funny-coloured but vaguely 3D? As it turns out, it is actually possible to this yourself as well! All you need is a photo camera, some DIY skills, and a small stack of materials costing around £20. Read the rest of the article »
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