24 July, 2024
Adventures in C-Mount Macro Land
C-mount lenses are the tiny optical jewels worn on the fronts of classic 16mm movie cameras. Their minuscule 17.526mm separation between the camera’s mounting flange and f...
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11 June, 2024
Cleaning a Classic Canon f/1.2 LTM Lens
A while back, I snagged a beautiful Canon VI-T rangefinder camera for small bucks at a yard sale. It’s probably as close as I’ll ever come to owning a classic Leica. But it had ...
3 April, 2024
There’s a Shadow in My Shoes! – A One-Shot Story
As I write this, London’s Tate Modern is hosting a major retrospective of Yoko Ono’s prolific, wildly varied art. Honestly, her work never much resonated. But something I just r...
27 March, 2024
Give Broken Ones a Chance – Shooting a Damaged Leica CL
If you had spotted the above Leica CL film camera on eBay, it might have been described like this: USED LEICA CL (For Parts or Repair) The camera’s viewfinder is missing its fro...
29 February, 2024
That Time I Built an X-Pro1/Monitor-Six-20 “FrankenFuji”
In my days before 35mmc, Jim Gray published this article on his great “Down the Road” site. It described how and why I adapted a 1940’s Kodak Monitor Six-20 le...
26 February, 2024
Ansco’s “Super Memar f/2” – A Simple High-Quality Camera
Ever since I inherited this lovely camera, I’ve wanted to treat it to some black-and-white. But I waited until I had some successful trials with Caffenol under my belt (like thi...
21 February, 2024
My Friend “Booper” – A One (+1) Shot Story
Meet my little friend “Booper.” I’ve never had a pet bird. It kills me to see them caged. But I love them (all creatures really). And in the early 1970’s, discovered that some b...
3 February, 2024
Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article, I stumbled on a way to shoot “super-macro” photos with a vintage Contaflex SLR! And it was done without Zeiss Ikon’s “Proxar” screw-on lens adapters (...