Bring Out the Fine Detail in Small Objects with This Coaxial Lighting Rig
All things considered, modern photography is pretty easy. It’s really just a matter of pointing the camera at the thing you want to take a picture of and letting the
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Trinocular Lens Makes Digital Wigglegrams Easier to Take
Everyone likes a good animated GIF, except for some Hackaday commenters who apparently prefer to live a joyless existence. And we can’t think of a better way to celebrate moving
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ERRF 22: Building a Library of Filament Colors
If you’ve ever paged through the color samples at the hardware store trying to match a particular color, you know how hard it can be. Not only are there nearly
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An Automated Digitizer For 35mm Slides
Slides make for great old-timey fun, but it’s awesome to have a digital backup of your old photos, too. An automatic digitizer can make quick work of your collection, and
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In A Way, 3D Scanning Is Over a Century Old
In France during the mid-to-late 1800s, one could go into François Willème’s studio, sit for a photo session consisting of 24 cameras arranged in a circle around the subject, and
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Telephoto Lens Without the Fiscal Pain
If you’re in the market for a telephoto lens, the available range of optics for your camera is limited only by the size of your bank account. So when [Pixels
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Ultimate Bokeh With A Projector Lens
Bokeh is a photography term that’s a bit difficult to define but is basically soft, aesthetically pleasing background blur, often used to make a subject stand out. Also called “background
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Upgraded Film Scanner Handles Bigger Formats At No Cost
Film scanners are a useful tool for digitizing slides and negatives, and the Plustek 8100 that [Christian Chapman] had was capable, but limited to small format film only. Rather than
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Trying Out a 3D Printed Microscope Lens Adapter
If you want to take pictures of tiny things close up, you need a macro lens. Or a microscope. [Nicholas Sherlock] thought “Why not both?” He designed a 3D-printed microscope
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AI Image Generation Sharpens Your Bad Photos and Kills Photography?
We don’t fully understand the appeal of asking an AI for a picture of a gorilla eating a waffle while wearing headphones. However, [Micael Widell] shows something in a recent
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