Mods, DIY & Lens Adapting Archives

23 February, 2024

Modifying an Olympus Trip 35 for Shooting ISO 3200 Film

By Patrick Mann

The venerable Olympus Trip 35 film camera – a fantastic little happy snapper with auto-exposure that doesn’t need a battery to operate. Plenty of other people have a...

3 February, 2024

Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 2)

By Dave Powell

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 (...

26 January, 2024

Fixing the Fujica SLR lens compatibility problem

By Stuart Jenkins

M42 is intended to be the universal mount. Unfortunately if you’re using a screw-mount Fujica SLR, that’s not entirely the case. There’s a design issue that pr...

24 January, 2024

Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 1)

By Dave Powell

Over the years, many people have asked online how to do macro photography with vintage Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLRs. Here’s a 2005 thread on the subject. Common wisdom says that Co...

12 January, 2024

Turning A 35mm Lens Into A 150mm – Jankuary Lens Adapting

By Azriel Knight

If you missed my article last Friday, be sure and have a look. I take a dive back into my first “serious” camera. This week I’m using one of my current bodies, but with a twist....

27 December, 2023

If Your Vintage Camera Lacks Strap Lugs, Try This!

By Dave Powell

Only when I began preparing to review my Ansco Super Memar camera for 35mmc did I notice that the camera lacks “lugs” for attaching neck straps. I could carry it in a belly bag ...

8 December, 2023

The Cirkut-Holga: A toy slitscan panorama camera

By Chad Hill

Last year, a friend sent me an article about someone using a 100 year old Cirkut camera to make amazing contact-printed panoramic photos on 8 inch wide paper. I hadn’t known any...

5 December, 2023

The 110 Saga Continues – Post Mortem Discoveries

By Tony Warren

I hope these ramblings about my exploration of 110 and sub-miniature are of some interest beyond my keyboard but here’s the next chapter. When my Minolta 460 Tx 110 camera seeme...

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Dave Powell on Ansco Titan – A Stylish 6×6 120 Folder
Thanks my friend! And yes, I was much too careful bracketing my shots. It was before I got into bulk…
Jeffery Luhn on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
Pentax made some solid cameras, especially the Spotmatic. My negative files from the 1970s are loaded with sharp images from…
Eric Rose on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
Love your photos and story. The Pentax Spotmatic is and always will be an iconic camera. The 28mm lens is…

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