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12 October, 2021

Wet Collodion Geekery – Some Tips and Tricks – By Markus Hoffstätter

By Markus Hofstätter

I have recently produced a series of videos that geek out on and provide various tips and tricks about various elements of the wet plate photography process, so thought I would ...

22 April, 2021

Designing a 3D Printed Scanning System for Cut Strip Negatives – By Stuart Jenkins

By Stuart Jenkins

I've designed and 3D printed some film holders that work well with cut strips, and the models are free to download on Thingiverse. It can be a faff to digitise your negatives w...

30 March, 2021

Presto Digitization with the CAMERADACTYL BoopBoop Trigger for mounted slides – By Ethan Moses

By cameradactyl

I wrote a long year in review article over on EMULSIVE about how I came to this project, how and why it came to be. This article is just going to stick mostly to the technicals...

1 March, 2021

Canon Sure Shot M Mini-Review & Auto-Flash Disable Modification

By Hamish Gill

Just before Christmas I spotted a rather injured looking Canon Sure Shot M (otherwise known as the Canon Prima Mini) in a second hand shop in town. I’ve looked at these cameras ...

5 February, 2021

A Digitisation Rig with a Nod To Mr H Robinson and a Surprise Along The Way – by Ralph Turner

By Ralph Turner

I’m not quite sure what triggered it, maybe a number of small mental prods: my son’s interest in film (he uses his Mum’s old Pentax K1000), being given a roll of Fuji C200 and a...

23 January, 2021

Running 35mm Film Through My 110 Year Old No. 0 Folding Pocket Kodak – By Dan Cuny

By Dan Cuny

I write a weekly camera collecting blog through my website, but due to the holidays I didn't have the usual time I spend researching the camera or the camera company, which is s...

14 January, 2021

Epaper Photo Printing – My Steampunk Photo Paper – By Marco Dughera

By Marco Dughera

My analog gear has been sitting in a closet since I started experimenting with digital cameras. However, when looking for images and inspiration, I keep on visiting blogs and si...

11 January, 2021

Loading 35mm into 120 Camera (Without Adapters) – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

I have been intrigued by the look of the sprocket holes with the actual photo, so I wanted to try to replicate it. It is a effect mostly used on colour images and it seems quite...

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