21 April, 2026
Printable Parts for Olympus OM1-n Shoe 4
As far as I know, the 3D print community hasn’t created printable files for often broken, removable hot shoes on the old Olympus OM series cameras. So I put up some files...
19 April, 2026
A new 8×11 film cassette for Minox cameras
I am certain many of the 8×11 users out there remember a time when the Minox 8×11 used film cassettes were available on the market, mainly by being purchased from laboratories s...
17 April, 2026
3D-Printed accessories for 110 (and 16mm) from Ausgeknipst
At the beginning of February, a representative of Ausgeknipst got in contact with me through the comments section of my ‘Perfecting the 110 re-load article’. Ausgekn...
23 August, 2025
Breathing New Life into Old Cameras – The Ausgeknipst Story
If you’re like me and you love shooting film (or at least you love film cameras), you probably know this feeling: you find an old film camera while strolling through your ...
23 November, 2024
Two cameras with a common shortcoming
LOMO LC-A I’ve owned a LOMO LC-A for some years and enjoyed its inherent ‘quirkiness’ – both in the image quality and operation: – the easy to miss focus indicator in the ...
3d printing has opened up a whole realm of possibilities for analog cameras. Replacement parts can be printed in a variety of materials. And, more importantly, cameras can be ad...
8 December, 2023
The Cirkut-Holga: A toy slitscan panorama camera
Last year, a friend sent me an article about someone using a 100 year old Cirkut camera to make amazing contact-printed panoramic photos on 8 inch wide paper. I hadn’t known any...
25 September, 2023
Developing and Shooting a 3D Printed Large Format Leaf Shutter
I have been a reader of this blog for quite a few years. I must have stumbled upon it around the time I was getting into film photography and was working through decades of phot...