Filmaker Scott Eggleston has a love for low budget accessories and he is also an avid DIYer. On this video he shares 5 of his top parts that can be very useful for any potential photography or videography DIYer out there.
So here are Eggleston’s 5 (plus a few extra ones) most usable parts – below we also added some of our parts in an image (some of the parts are similar, but some we have found after quite a bit of searching, and you will meet a few of these and some others on a number of our upcoming DIY videos here on LensVid).
- mini ball head
- 1/4-20″ to camera shoe adapter (male).
- Camera shoe receptacle.
- 1/4-20″ coupler (female-to-female).
- Combo camera shoe adapter/coupler deal
- 1/4-20″ male-to-male adapter
- Neoprene fender washer (1/4″ hole) – find them on a local hardware store.
- 7″ magic arm clone.
- 11″ magic arm clone.
Here are some of our “magic camera DIY tool kit” that we have been collecting and you can see all sorts of different 1/4″ 20, 3/8″ and other useful parts – if you are interested in knowing what is any specific part – just ask (almost all are from ebay by the way)
Bonus video: Caleb Pike from DSLR Video Shooter showing 5 creative ways to mount microphones (check out the parts here):
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrzMAXwONJM[/youtube]
Be sure to watch Eggleston “How to Make a DIY PVC Light Stand for Under $5“. You can also check out many more interesting DIY photography projects here on LensVid.
Iddo Genuth 
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