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12 August, 2020

Artefacts of a Laboratory – Adapting an enlarging lens to a Sony DSLR – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940 - also published in...

8 August, 2020

A Couple of Bodged Fixes for a Pentax PC35AF – By Seb Copley

By sebcopley

After returning to analogue photography a few years ago with a Minolta Hi-Matic 7 rangefinder, I began looking for a second film camera. I was looking for something totally diff...

9 July, 2020

Digitising Negatives and Slides – A Primer – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

This article seeks to inform about the digitising of analogue film, it discusses the issues involved, different approaches available to do it for yourself, and the hardware and ...

2 July, 2020

The Impact of Air Bubbles in the Optics of Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. Is it a stone? No, it's a prewar Contax. I say "almost unbreakable", as these poor specimens have seen better ...

22 June, 2020

FauXPAN, Just Another DIY 35mm Panorama Camera – By Freeman Lin

By Freeman Lin

It was Day 6 of COVID-19 isolation, I was feeling more and more restless. Being one of the lucky ones, I could still work from home, but my mind was distracted by the barrage of...

7 May, 2020

A Little Bricolage, or: How I Recovered Two Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

I’ll start with the Canon Super-Canomatic R 135mm f/2.5, but before I get going, its relevant to say that both Canon, Pentax K and Sony A have the same distance between le...

4 May, 2020

Dodge, Burn and Other Heresies – Darkroom Technique Part 5 – by Sroyon Mukherjee

By Sroyon

So far in this series I’ve only talked about ‘straight printing’, which is to say, no part of the image was locally manipulated. I tweaked exposure and contrast of course, but t...

29 April, 2020

Zeiss Jena 5cm Sonnars – The Magic of the Prewar Uncoated Sonnar – By Brian Sweeney

By Brian Sweeney

Interchangeable lens 35mm rangefinder cameras became popular almost 90 years ago when Leitz introduced the Leica II and Zeiss debuted the Contax I. Both companies brought out fu...

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I like these images, though there is underexposure. I think it might be the K200 as well as metering. I…
Walter Reumkens on Changing LTM cameras to M Mount and learning camera repair (Part 1)26/10/2026
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Thanks my friend! Absolutely, it's a lot of fun winging these weird rolls especially when seemingly nobody has shot it,…
Omar Tibi on Fujichrome MS 100/1000 – Irresponsible Pushing26/10/2026
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