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Jul

22

Even camera guys do it!

With more and more people having access to video equipment as prices come down it’s not surprising to see the newbie join the ranks of movie and video making. It’s until you realize that some of the extra stuff is soooooo expensive, like jigs made for 5 digit film budgets. Well rest assured that are DIY sites for lots of this equipment when you want to take it a step further from just holding a camera in your hands.

With only $30 to $60 of stuff, you can build yourself quite the jib or perhaps you want to create the cool effect of dept of field, adapt a 35mm lens and others on [ClosetFilms.com], or perhaps a stabilizer or even a fancy one that mounts on a bicycle.

For more including lighting, backdrops, rigs and even mic zeppelin see them all grouped in category at FilmLinker on their DIY page…

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May

19

The angle on angles

It’s nice having all these fancy tools but when it comes to cutting angles with them, I’ve been had more then once. This tutorial on woodworking tools and cutting angles is quite informative.

Not all woodworking machinery angle scales are created alike. In fact, there are two different conventions for the calibration of angle scales in common use on woodworking machinery. One type of scale is calibrated to treat a square cut as a 90 degree cut, while the other scale treats a square cut as a 0 degree cut.

It’s spread over 5 pages or so. I’m going to be collecting more of these so if you have some send them on over. Here is the tutorial…

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May

16

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