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1 October, 2016

A brief history of Reid & Sigrist – Guest post by Wilson Laidlaw

By Wilson Laidlaw

In the great British tradition of “Keep calm and muddle through”, during WW2, British official war photographers had used a whole hodge podge of assorted cameras, ranging from l...

8 September, 2016

How to: 28mm & finder for your Leica on a pensioner’s budget – by Geoff Radnor

By Geoff

My first Leica was an M2 in 1959 it came with a 5cm 2.8 Elmar to which were added over time a 9cm and a 13.5cm. I never did get a wide angle 3.5cm, but what a nice viewfinder th...

3 August, 2016

DIY Leica M6 remote shutter release – Guest post by Guy

By GW

...I found myself (quite often) wanting to take group photos with family or colleagues but I had no means of achieving that with the M6. I thought about a mechanical timer but I...

2 August, 2016

Why & how I made a DIY 35mm mini-Viewfinder – Guest post by Eddy

By Eddy

One day I was going through a bag of knackered old point and shoots looking for a decent donor lens to use on a cardboard camera I was making (as you do) when I noticed that nea...

30 July, 2016

Hacking a 35mm viewfinder out of a Canon AF7 – Guest post by Frank Lehnen

By Frank Lehnen

I wondered if it was possible to use the gorgeous viewfinder of this humble lump of plastic on a real camera such as the LEICA IIIa which has a definitely crappy viewfinder - at...

25 July, 2016

Basic Optics For Photographers In 9 Diagrams – by Aukje

By Aukje

If you have read some of my posts here, you know that I am a newbie where it comes to film photography. This time I thought I would share something about optics, a subject that ...

23 July, 2016

Building a custom Olympus 35RC – “Project Deco” – Guest post by Steve Lloyd

By Steve Lloyd

I’ve got a bit of a habit for not just picking up a camera and shooting with it. Instead, I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can modify them to improve the styling, erg...

17 July, 2016

Specialist Film Camera Repair & Modification Companies

By Hamish Gill

A few weeks ago I was contacted by a chap called Matt who suggested it might be nice to create a list of reputable camera repairers. Specifically film camera repairers. Rath...

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