The Kodak Instamatic 500 might look like a common Instamatic camera. Boxy, thick, pocketable and simple, quickly loaded with a 126-film cassette. But once you take a closer look it is…
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'Sharp lenses' and 'cheap lenses' is a Venn diagram with a very small intersection. In search of such a short-telephoto lens for equestrian photography, I started looking at the 1980s Russian…
Repairs, Mods, Tutorials, Downloads That time I shot with a...That time I shot with a Mamiya Press lens strapped to a Sony A7Rii – By Martin Ellard
I started collecting parts for a summer project with my son. I’ve been wanting to build a Goodman 3D printed medium format camera for a while and finally took the plunge…
Lenses Repairs, Mods, Tutorials, DownloadsShooting and Repairing the Minolta M-Rokkor 28mm f/2.8 – by Victor Doroshenko
Inertia of mind is sometimes mind boggling. I've started my serious photography life with Sony nex-5 camera which replaced a briefly owned Nikon D40 for the reason of compactness, but then…
It’s nearly time for Britain’s biggest photography show, the imaginatively named, The Photography Show. At this year’s event there is going to be a “Mega Analogue Photography Meetup” which I'm assuming…
I had been trawling the online market places and managed to snag a Minolta Hi-matic 7s on trademe (the NZ version of ebay). It was advertised as being in excellent condition…
Repairs and CleaningFunction and Repair of Hasselblad Film Backs (A12 and others) – By Arild Edvard Båsmo
If you are reading this, you might have a magazine with some problems. This piece is written to help you. I found there to be very little documentation on the repair…
If you've got a dodgy or non-working Nikon L35AF 35mm compact film camera lying around, or are willing to buy one, you might be prepared to throw caution to the winds…
I’ve recently bought myself a Panomicron Oxygen - a panoramic 35mm film camera that’s the same format as the Hasselblad Xpan, but at a fraction of the price. It might not…
