Tutorials & Knowhow Archives

14 February, 2023

That time I “Half-Framed” a cute Kodak Flash Bantam camera (Part 1 of 3)

By Dave Powell

I’ve long wanted a half-frame 35mm camera. Doubling one’s images per roll is especially great now that film costs more. I’m an inveterate tinkerer, though, and preferred to conv...

10 February, 2023

Declining Reno – 13 Frames Developed in Kompostinol – by Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

I think the city council and mayor would probably want to kill me if they read the title of this article. To be clear, Reno Nevada at large is not declining. It’s a thrivi...

7 February, 2023

Buyers’ Guide – Tips for Buying Camera Gear Online – By Ted Ayre

By Ted Ayre

When I was starting out I borrowed a camera from my Grandad, his plastic auto-focus Minolta Dynax 7000i SLR, with a zoom lens. It wasn’t the coolest looking camera, but it defin...

25 January, 2023

Lens Conversion – Nikon AF600 to LTM/L39 with a ‘Rod’s Gear’ Housing – By Andreas Mass

By Andreas Mass

When I was looking for a potential lens or rather a nice broken camera to retrieve a good lens from I stumbled on some articles here covering the Nikon AF600 (also known as Lite...

18 January, 2023

That Time I Built an “Air-Gap Meniscus” Lens – By Dave Powell

By Dave Powell

Long ago, I tried to shoot landscapes using a macro-close-up filter as a lens. I taped the filter to the front of two nested cardboard “focusing tubes” and attached them to my F...

5 January, 2023

One Page Zines – By Bill Thoo

By Bill Thoo

Have you ever thought that everything you wanted to say could be printed on one page? Now you can do this with a zine. I have come across concepts for a one page zine several t...

15 November, 2022

Repairing & Revisiting a Voigtländer Vito CL – Here there be Dragons – By Has Gustafsson

By Hans Gustafsson

"Here there be Dragons" - a text said to be found at the very edge of maps a long time ago when the world was still not explored. Said text, I guess, was to discourage seafaring...

10 November, 2022

My First Shots with the Pan-Holga 360 – by Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

The Pan-Holga was created by the inventor Richard McCaleb around 2003, at least that's when he sent it to Cory Armantrout who I just bought it from. I was compulsively perusing ...

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