The old 1.35v mercury px625 batteries are no longer available. There is a modern equivalent px625 replacement batery, made as far as I can tell exclusively by wein but they aren’t especially cheap. The advantage they do have is that they are the correct 1.35v. LR44 batteries can be used in the way I am …
How to Adapt a 675za Hearing aid Battery for use as a px625 replacement Read More
I have had a passing interesting in giving redscale film a go for a while now, I’ve just never been that confident it was worth shelling out the cash for. But since I found out it’s possible to make your own it seemed much more worth while giving a go. My first assumption was that I would …
I am still writing my review of the olympus mju-ii, but this modification might give some clue to one of my thoughts regarding it. The camera’s inability to retain it’s flash settings is not an uncommon complaint against this camera, it is in fact often the major point of contention. I wouldn’t say it bothers …
Modification of Olympus mju-ii to retain flash settings Read More
After publishing this, I was asked to write a more detailed version of this post for the Ilford Photo website – you can find it here Scale/Zone focusing is a very simple method of getting sharp photos without relying on auto focus or any viewfinder-based manual focus aid such as a rangefinder. It’s a method …
