Like many great tales from New Jersey, our story begins at a bagel shop. On a fall morning in Morristown, while standing in line for a breakfast sandwich, I noticed a beautiful ...
27 February, 2026
The Miniature Camera Monthly
Above: Cover photo of the August 1939 issue of Ray Bolger for it’s feature article on the new about-to-be-released movie The Wizard of Oz My wife retired a couple years ag...
26 February, 2026
Divided Development – An Introduction
Divided development is the use of two baths – “A” contains ‘developer’ and “B” contains an ‘accelerator’ – to develop film. This has benefits and drawbac...
14 February, 2026
Modifying the Contax 167MT
Notice anything off about this Contax 167MT? Look closely, hold, and look again… Well, trick question, there isn’t anything to notice. From the front, this is just like any othe...
11 February, 2026
Pentax DA to Canon EF Adapter Hack
In December 2025, I documented a crafty little project of modifying a cheap Pentax K to Canon EF adapter so the aperture of a DA 35mm/f2.8 macro lens (no aperture ring) could be...
14 January, 2026
Pinhole Photography in Northwest New Mexico
I’m an Albuquerque-based photographer who has dabbled for years with not only film cameras but also paper negatives and pinhole cameras. Going back to the mid-1990s, I had set u...
9 January, 2026
Nikon IX 30-60mm – Resurrection of a Redundant Lens
I am writing here of the Nikon Pronea S, more specifically the APS Nikon 30-60mm lX kit lens that could not be used on any other Nikon brand SLR camera because the camera end of...
9 January, 2026
Carl Zeiss 80mm F2.8 SL66 Mount Adapted to Pentax 67
The Pentax 67 system lacks a 35mm equivalent lens with large aperture. What, there is a 75AL? I’m too broke to have ever heard of it. So, I’ll have to adapt it myself. A Carl Ze...
