17 June, 2025
Rebuilding a Canon Super 8 with Raspberry Pi
Last year, I found a broken Canon 514XL-S Super 8 camera at a flea market in Sydney for $5. It was clearly non-functional, but something about the design — the shape, the feel o...
14 December, 2024
How I modded Lomo LC-A+ into half-frame camera
I made a half-frame mod for the Lomo LC-A and LC-A+, inspired by a clipping from the Russian magazine “Foto&Video,” issue #8 from 1999. This mod has been brewing...
10 December, 2024
Rangefinder with glasses? A mod made from necessity
Anyone who is a glasses wearer and rangefinder enthusiast then this issue will be familiar with you. A quick google search for ‘rangefinder camera with glasses’ will expose you ...
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 ...
15 October, 2024
Can a Polaroid pack camera shoot 4×5?
The short answer: sort of… A Polaroid pack camera comes with a 114mm lens and basically covers a 3×4″ image. I was curious as to whether it could shoot 4×5...
13 August, 2024
Shooting Sheet film in a Polaroid Pack Camera
My stash of Polaroid pack film was running low when I realized that all of my Polaroid pack cameras would be film orphans soon unless someone started producing pack film again. ...
Polaroid pack film cameras are very cool. Sitting somewhere between medium and large format (3″x4″), these cameras took instant peel-apart pictures that looked and f...
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...