28 November, 2023
Making a No-Sew Belt Pouch from an Old Denim Jacket
I’ve always wanted a slim-profile belt pouch for carrying compact cameras. Most manufactured belt pouches have been too small or thickly padded for my cameras and taste. ...
25 November, 2023
Development Tests: Rodinal 200:1 and re-used 400:1
How cheaply can you develop a film? Ten cents a roll? One cent??? I usually develop film in Adox Rodinal (now five years old) diluted 100:1 in water at 15-24 degrees and stand d...
2 November, 2023
Hotel Darkroom: Developing Film on the Road
In 2019, I went on a short stint to Edmonton to take some photos of my old stomping grounds: Whyte Avenue. As a teenager in the 1990s, this was where you’d find me. Sippi...
20 October, 2023
How to Make a Digital Contact Sheet
The scanning method described here is based only on my best personal result, I’m sure other more easy methods could give similar or even better results than mine ones. Why...
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...
23 September, 2023
Photo-Flo: The ONLY Real Way To Use It
A little background first. A few years ago I was having some serious issues with my negatives in the darkroom, and at some point I thought I had it narrowed down to a misuse of ...
