Thrifty Thursdays FYE
Apr 2, 2020 06:56:48 #
Thrifty Thursday is to nurture your inner Scotsman. It’s all about DIY repairs, ink refills, homemade gear, pinhole lenses, paper light meters, zoo safaris, russian leicas, adapted optics, lomography, open source apps, free models, ancient film, toys from attic, and stuff like that.
Post today ... cuz tomorrow we clear the deck for Frugal Friday !
Post today ... cuz tomorrow we clear the deck for Frugal Friday !
Apr 2, 2020 07:13:08 #
Apr 2, 2020 07:16:47 #
Plastic soda straw that has the ability to "bend in any direction", (you know the little rings on the straw) that is if your Governor has not outlawed the "plastic" straws! Duct tape to lens and enjoy a new world of . . . ????
Apr 2, 2020 07:49:40 #
SqBear wrote:
Plastic soda straw that has the ability to "bend in any direction", (you know the little rings on the straw) that is if your Governor has not outlawed the "plastic" straws! Duct tape to lens and enjoy a new world of . . . ????
Good idea. Giant version on an old vacuum or the auto parts store.
Apr 2, 2020 08:09:38 #
bleirer wrote:
Good idea. Giant version on an old vacuum or the auto parts store.
bleirer, thanks, however you left out the Army-Navy stores and the spice merchants! They are thick here and around. all over the place(s).
Apr 2, 2020 08:12:38 #
Old windows as frames. This one fits a 20x30 print almost perfectly.
Apr 2, 2020 08:59:10 #
User ID wrote:
Thrifty Thursday is to nurture your inner Scotsman. It’s all about DIY repairs, ink refills, homemade gear, pinhole lenses, paper light meters, zoo safaris, russian leicas, adapted optics, lomography, open source apps, free models, ancient film, toys from attic, and stuff like that.
Post today ... cuz tomorrow we clear the deck for Frugal Friday !
Post today ... cuz tomorrow we clear the deck for Frugal Friday !
Apr 2, 2020 09:11:18 #
Here is one I learned here recently ftom Mark Sturtevant. A foot long or so (sized to fit in back pocket of camera gear backpack) 5/8" dowel for handheld macro image stabilization. The dowel in left hand, camera in right resting on left hand, other end of dowel angled down various angles, resting on the ground for stability.
I found that same dowel can stabilize a monopod if I am near a tree or wall. Dowel and monopod at right angles, dowel and monopod in left hand, other end pushing against tree.
I found that same dowel can stabilize a monopod if I am near a tree or wall. Dowel and monopod at right angles, dowel and monopod in left hand, other end pushing against tree.
Apr 2, 2020 10:12:01 #
For me, its gonna be STINGY SUNDAY. Y'all making lenses out of toilet paper cores- dats kid stuff! I'm waiting to use up the paper towels so I can use the core to make a TELEPHOTO lens- Somewhere, I have a can of WHITE spray paint. If this isolation lasts much longer I'll consider using the core from a 108" roll of seamless background paper and replicate the Hubble Telescope- to do some astronomical photography of course. I have some condenser lenses from an old enlarger down in the basement. On second thought, maybe I'll make an electron-microscope and make some photomicrographs of that damn virus!
Apr 2, 2020 10:26:46 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Old windows as frames. This one fits a 20x30 print almost perfectly.
I love your concept. Problem is, my wife will not allow me to take the window frames off of our house. The antique stores, charity shops, and junkyards that I usually goto for "props" are all closed for the pandemic. I might delay my weekly grocery acquisition day to coincide with "garbage pick-up day" and patrol the neighborhood in my sterilized and hermetically sealed car, on the way to the store, and see what I can find before the truck arrives.
Apr 2, 2020 11:21:19 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
Maybe I can trade you for some toilet paper. Let's talk 😊I love your concept. Problem is, my wife will not allow me to take the window frames off of our house. The antique stores, charity shops, and junkyards that I usually goto for "props" are all closed for the pandemic. I might delay my weekly grocery acquisition day to coincide with "garbage pick-up day" and patrol the neighborhood in my sterilized and hermetically sealed car, on the way to the store, and see what I can find before the truck arrives.
Apr 2, 2020 12:49:01 #
@Gene
Hadda get close look and blink and think to realize what the “screen shot” was but what winner that is. OTOH the PJ’s war torn Nikon was in-u-face plain as day. Cool schidt.
Hadda get close look and blink and think to realize what the “screen shot” was but what winner that is. OTOH the PJ’s war torn Nikon was in-u-face plain as day. Cool schidt.
Apr 2, 2020 12:54:26 #
@Linda
One item I almost put in that ideas list in 1st post was flea market frames but I skipped it. You have certainly gone that One Better, even Twice Better:-)
One item I almost put in that ideas list in 1st post was flea market frames but I skipped it. You have certainly gone that One Better, even Twice Better:-)
Apr 2, 2020 13:01:42 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
I love your concept. Problem is, my wife will not allow me to take the window frames off of our house. The antique stores, charity shops, and junkyards that I usually goto for "props" are all closed for the pandemic. ........
Dress like it’s your job to tend those advert kiosks in the airport and remove a few big duratrans of sunny beaches, grand vistas, and Parisian cafes. Then you mount those outside your existing windows !
Apr 2, 2020 13:10:16 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Old windows as frames. This one fits a 20x30 print almost perfectly.
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