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...
Polaroid pack film cameras are very cool. Sitting somewhere between medium and large format (3″x4″), these cameras took instant peel-apart pictures that looked and f...
11 July, 2024
Polaroid Swinger – Modification for use with 120 Film
I’ve always thought of the Polaroid Swinger as a toy camera. Polaroid made and sold millions of them back in the 60’s, thanks to an effective marketing campaign whic...
20 June, 2024
Perfecting the 110 re-load
This article is about my experiments in modifying an existing 110 cartridge to take commercially available 16mm film. To start with, I’d like to acknowledge the support th...
14 June, 2024
Modifying and Shooting a Sprocket Rocket in Oxford
This project aimed to improve the quality of the images produced by the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic camera designed to achieve and does deliver ...
I’ve often observed from afar large format photographers esoterically divining their cameras and producing photos that my 35mm camera could only dream about. But I was lar...
3 June, 2024
My Homemade 6×12 Format Camera.
I have been prompted by some of the comments received on my recent One Shot Story to pull up an article about the camera I used and some of my results from it. I had put it asid...
3d printing has opened up a whole realm of possibilities for analog cameras. Replacement parts can be printed in a variety of materials. And, more importantly, cameras can be ad...
