Category Archives: Photography/Camera stuff

Bench camera mount

I’ve often wished for stable camera mount above the bench where I take a lot of project pictures.  It needed to be quite flexible in where it could locate the camera, but still fairly rigid for say good registration of … Continue reading

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Clever flash diffuser

A flash diffuser is often very helpful, especially for some of the closeups of hardware I take.  The better-than-nothing hack I’ve used dozens of times is a couple of folds of Kleenex over the Canon SD600’s built-in flash.  It’s free … Continue reading

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New conical “light box”

The standard way to get nice “professional” uniform lighting for technical photos is to use a “light box” with all white insides so light comes pretty uniformly from all directions.  My plan for some time has been to build some … Continue reading

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