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Make Something New with Your Old Digital Camera

You’ve probably upgraded your digital camera once or twice over the past few years. But what have you done with your old ones? By David Cardinal

Older cameras are often not worth selling on eBay, and if you give one to a friend you’re likely to be answering questions about it for the next year. Your kids may well already have their own camera or a camera phone. And you can’t bring yourself to just toss your old cameras in the trash. So if your household is anything like my household, you have a couple of them in a closet, or in a box in the basement, or somewhere in the garage. No more! In this article we’ve put together some fun and useful ideas for what you can do with your old digital camera.

inexpensive Fish-eye lens

I’ve always thought fish-eye photos were neat, but I was never willing to spend the $200 on a fish-eye adapter for my digital camera. Then I found a cool way to build a fish-eye solution for less than $20. All it requires is a standard “peephole” door viewer from a home supply store and a way to attach it to your camera. For best results, you want to use as wide a peephole as possible. An ultrawide door viewer from a home supply store will cost you about $15, although if you want to scrimp further you can get narrower ones for even less.