11 July, 2024
Polaroid Swinger – Modification for use with 120 Film
I’ve always thought of the Polaroid Swinger as a toy camera. Polaroid made and sold millions of them back in the 60’s, thanks to an effective marketing campaign whic...
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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
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 Leica. But it had ...
