DIY site Instructables shows you how to turn nearly any plastic bottle into a tripod (make that monopod) for your camera. All you need is a screw-on bottle cap and a couple of dirt-cheap nuts and ...

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Aaron wrote us with a handy hack turning something he learned about in an old Gizmodo post into a cheap on-the-go tripod. Back in November we wrote about the Nalgene Press-Bot, a way to make coffee on ...

Mount your camera on a standard tripod and drape a bean bag over the top-you'll achieve total stability for absolute image clarity with very slow shutter speeds. The lowly bean bag hasn’t a leg to ...

A do-it-yourselfer at Instructables shows you how to create a "string tripod" for your camera using about five dollars' worth of materials. This "old photographer's trick" involves connecting a cord ...

This DIY project combines bikes and cameras, a sure-fire way to make it into the pages of Gadget Lab. Better, it’s a super-simple and rather ingenious hack, straight from the cunning mind of cyclist ...

As vice president of CNET Studios, Sharon led the video, social, editorial design, and branded-content teams. Before that role, Sharon led content development and launched new verticals for CNET, ...

Our sexy sister, Lifehacker, is highlighting a little tutorial how to build a panoramic tripod head of your own. This head can attach on to your existing tripod for quick, painless and accurate ...

Unsteady hands are the enemy of good smartphone photos, but you probably have what you need to fix them in the back of your desk drawer. In the video above, The Shortcut offers a makeshift smartphone ...

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