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29 December, 2020

Ligero69 – Chasing My Perfect Camera – By Mario M.

By Mario M

The perfect camera, much like a camera bag, is elusive. We develop our tastes and re-shape our expectations while on this wallet-burning quest to find the one. But what do we re...

7 December, 2020

Olyversal 2:1 Frame Camera Project – By Alexander Seidler

By Alexander Seidler

After a few years of shooting, and 2 or 3 hundred rolls of film I felt my experience was growing, and my GAS with it. I'd been shooting a lot of wide angle lenses, and wanted to...

12 August, 2020

Artefacts of a Laboratory – Adapting an enlarging lens to a Sony DSLR – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940 - also published in...

2 July, 2020

The Impact of Air Bubbles in the Optics of Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. Is it a stone? No, it's a prewar Contax. I say "almost unbreakable", as these poor specimens have seen better ...

22 June, 2020

FauXPAN, Just Another DIY 35mm Panorama Camera – By Freeman Lin

By Freeman Lin

It was Day 6 of COVID-19 isolation, I was feeling more and more restless. Being one of the lucky ones, I could still work from home, but my mind was distracted by the barrage of...

7 May, 2020

A Little Bricolage, or: How I Recovered Two Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

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 have the same distance between le...

13 February, 2020

How I Shot A Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh

By brendensingh

Why 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 age, having been kicked out of Secondary School and not bei...

12 February, 2020

A Paxette Pinhole Conversion and a walk in the Countryside – By Rock

By Rock

In 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 that most features were dead (invi...

Art Meripol on 5 Frames with a Large Format Camera – The Death of a Giant
Great documentation and explanation of what lens/film/developing combo was used. Funny, but unlike Thomas I like that last one quite…
Geoff Chaplin on Kentmere 200 – My First Couple of Rolls with this Brand New 200 Speed B&W Film
Maybe for those who use a lab the idea and extra cost of having the lab push 100 or pull…
Thomas Wolstenholme on 5 Frames with a Large Format Camera – The Death of a Giant
I like all but the last image - it just doesn't appeal to me for whatever nonsensical reason of my…

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