14 October, 2023
That Time I Hacked a Canon AF35ML to Make a Loupe
WARNING: The following would be sacrilege with a working Canon AF35ML point-and-shoot. But if you happen to stumble across a “trasher,” this is a great hack for turn...
13 October, 2023
A Win/Lose Tale of Making a 120 to 16mm film slitter.
This has turned out, somewhat abruptly, to be the final chapter in my investigation into 110 and reusing the cartridges. Unfortunately, it also led to the demise of my original ...
25 September, 2023
Developing and Shooting a 3D Printed Large Format Leaf Shutter
I have been a reader of this blog for quite a few years. I must have stumbled upon it around the time I was getting into film photography and was working through decades of phot...
6 September, 2023
Investigating a 110 cartridge and film for possible re-use.
The 110 format has really grabbed my interest despite an initial cool reaction. I now find myself with two more of these cameras thanks to an auction job lot, only one in full w...
5 September, 2023
Rescue and Modification of a Ricoh Auto Half
I’ve restored this cute little Japanese half-frame 35mm camera with a metering conversion from selenium to CdS, and the addition of adjustable focus. Here’s the stor...
After my first, recent experience of the 110 format I concluded that I wasn’t won over to the it despite the camera being so good to use. In fact, it made me more interested tha...
A couple of years ago I happened to see an image on Twitter that completely stopped me in my tracks. It was a very fortunate sighting as I'm not a big fan of twitter, I am howev...
If X is good and Y is good, then X and Y combined must be even better. Out of this misguided reasoning have emerged such unholy inventions as the beer-tap hat and ice-cream frie...
