mrodgers
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That's one for me, since it was me with the milk jug diffuser. The reason I do DIY is because I do not have thousands of dollars worth of camera like you mentioned earlier. I have a $200 superzoom point and shoot. I can't justify spending the $79 for a $200 camera as you mention about the Gary Fong diffuser thing.....just store bought, as opposed to a milk jug diffuser. I'm not an elitist, just a consumer.
I can't buy accessories such as this for my camera. I must go DIY. I don't have a hotshoe to mount stuff on. I can't see spending up to $150 for a piece of crap tripod (until I saw how sturdy the $30 Walmart one was) when I could have a DIY tripod from junk in my basement for nothing that was every bit as sturdy as the ones I was looking at for up to $150 as I said.
It's sometimes the thrill of doing and building things yourself as opposed to buying something also. Sometimes it has nothing to do with money, but just the enjoyment of doing it.
You can buy perfectly good RTF RC airplanes for pretty cheap, all inclusive. Yet, the RC forums are full of people spending thousands on their radios and recievers to use with a cut up chunk of foam they built themselves for $1. Not because the airplane cost only $1, but because they enjoy building something DIY out of a 4 mm thick chunk of flat foam and making it fly.