I’ll start with the Canon Super-Canomatic R 135mm f/2.5, but before I get going, its relevant to say that both Canon, Pentax K and Sony A…
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How I Shoot a Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh
February 13, 2020Why make a micro-budget feature film? Well, I had the idea since I was 14 years old. I had a lot of free time at that…
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A Paxette Pinhole Conversion and a walk in the Countryside – By Rock
February 12, 2020In an earlier post I suggested that the only thing left to do with my 1950s rangefinder 35mm was a pinhole conversion project, bearing in mind…
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CAMERADACTYL Brancopan 35mm Panoramic Camera: A Preview with Pictures – By Ethan
December 17, 2019I'm Ethan, I make cameras at Cameradactyl.com. A few months back I finished the initial prototypes for a new camera, the Brancopan, which is a 35mm…
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A path from, and back to, a Yashica 40mm f/1.7 lens – by Anders Bjørn Jensen
December 10, 2019I have been an amateur photographer since I was 13 years old (in 1982) when my first camera was a now long-since-bricked Yashica Electro 35 GX.…
Lens Adapting, Mods & DIY• Lenses
Russian Slide Projector lens modification – By Stuart Jenkins
July 10, 2019'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…
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Hacking Nikon L35AF ‘Pikaichi’ lens into the body of an Industar 50-2- by Charles Higham
December 28, 2018If 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…
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Panomicron Oxygen review – A 3D Printed Hasselblad Xpan Alternative
December 24, 2018I’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…
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Adding Manual Shutter Speeds to the Yashica Electro 35 Series Cameras – by BY CAMERADACTYL (Ethan)
November 27, 2018I have been filling my kickstarter orders for the last month for the CAMERADACTYL 4x5 Field Camera, which has imprisoned me in my own house, a…
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A Mamiya 67 instant camera, or: Creating the Maminstax – By Victor Doroshenko
October 20, 2018The first time I saw Mamiya RB67, it was love at first sight. It was a chance coincidence that we met at all, on the net,…
