DIY in photography

The DIY book for creative and individual photography

• With lots of step-by-step instructions and tips
• Do-it-yourself projects based on modern DSLRs and mirrorless system cameras
• Numerous photos show the creative image results of the DIY cameras and adapted lenses

In this do-it-yourself guide for photographers, Cyrill Harnischmacher shows how you can use simple tools and materials that you can find in any hardware store to build your own cameras and adapt lenses of all kinds.

Find out how digital and analog photography can be creatively combined and how fun in the photographic process is no longer reduced to fractions of a second. Important aspects of the projects presented in the book are the decelerated use of analogue technology and the fun of handicrafts and handicrafts as well as the intensive examination of the photographic possibilities that this brings.

Projects and Topics:

• Exposure cyanotype directly with self-made camera
• Adapt lenses from old bellows and viewfinder cameras
• Multiple exposures with central shutter lenses
• build a tilt-shift running camera yourself
• Multi-picture shots with Polaroid lenses
• fold a bellows yourself
• experiment with lenses
• build a rotatable shift lens
• Cameras and lenses for multi-shot recording
• Information on sources of supply, materials and tools
• and much more

The author impressively demonstrates how to achieve image effects that cannot be achieved with image processing or modern lenses. In comprehensibly described and illustrated instructions, Cyrill Harnischmacher takes you from the starting material to the finished workpiece and shows you how you can use it to create spectacular and unusual photographs.