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9 July, 2024

Bi-Pack Bi-Chromes: or How I learned to love making color pictures on black and white film in a single exposure

By Chad Hill

Recently, I was chatting with the manager of VSSOutlet, a mostly online used camera gear shop, but which also happens to be located near me. He showed me a weird sliding large f...

27 June, 2024

My First use of Caffenol

By Roger

There is lots of advice on this on the web but here is some more, in case it is helpful to anyone. I recently started to use film again and, as it was inexpensive, invested in a...

21 June, 2024

How to Take a 3-D Photo with Almost Any Camera

By Stereoscopy Blog

Today, June 21st 2024, is the 3rd International Stereoscopy Day, 186 years since inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone first presented his mirror stereoscope and theory of binocular v...

20 June, 2024

Perfecting the 110 re-load

By Bob Janes

This article is about my experiments in modifying an existing 110 cartridge to take commercially available 16mm film. To start with, I’d like to acknowledge the support th...

14 June, 2024

Modifying and Shooting a Sprocket Rocket in Oxford

By Charles Higham

This project aimed to improve the quality of the images produced by the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic camera designed to achieve and does deliver ...

Projection of light from a modified 50mm lens

12 June, 2024

Converting a 50mm lens meant for 35mm film to large format

By Jim Skelton

I’ve often observed from afar large format photographers esoterically divining their cameras and producing photos that my 35mm camera could only dream about. But I was lar...

11 June, 2024

Cleaning a Classic Canon f/1.2 LTM Lens

By Dave Powell

A while back, I snagged a beautiful Canon VI-T rangefinder camera for small bucks at a yard sale. It’s probably as close as I’ll ever come to owning a classic Leic...

3 June, 2024

My Homemade 6×12 Format Camera.

By Tony Warren

I have been prompted by some of the comments received on my recent One Shot Story to pull up an article about the camera I used and some of my results from it. I had put it asid...

Tim Bradshaw on Nikkor D 40mm f4 and Bronica S2 – aka the Bronica SWFF (Super Wide & F-ing Fat)
I hate articles like this: wonderful photos made with a camera & lens I can't afford in a format I'm…
Skink74 on Nikkor D 40mm f4 and Bronica S2 – aka the Bronica SWFF (Super Wide & F-ing Fat)
Interesting stuff - I have an S2A and after I got it I was looking for a 40mm for some…
Dan Cuny on Fast Box One Shutter Speed Checker Review
Hello Carlo, Here is their website: https://fastbox.one Regards, Dan

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