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Camera Modifications

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 ...
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21 May, 2024

Adapting a Yashinon-DX 45mm f1.7 for a Corfield Periflex

By Stuart Jenkins

I’ve paired this mid-fifties British 35mm camera with a converted lens that is normally fixed onto the front of a Yashica Electro 35 GS rangefinder. Turns out they go toge...
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23 February, 2024

Modifying an Olympus Trip 35 for Shooting ISO 3200 Film

By Patrick Mann

The venerable Olympus Trip 35 film camera – a fantastic little happy snapper with auto-exposure that doesn’t need a battery to operate. Plenty of other people have a...
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3 February, 2024

Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 2)

By Dave Powell

In Part 1 of this article, I stumbled on a way to shoot “super-macro” photos with a vintage Contaflex SLR! And it was done without Zeiss Ikon’s “Proxar” screw-on lens adapters (...
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26 January, 2024

Fixing the Fujica SLR lens compatibility problem

By Stuart Jenkins

M42 is intended to be the universal mount. Unfortunately if you’re using a screw-mount Fujica SLR, that’s not entirely the case. There’s a design issue that pr...
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24 January, 2024

Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 1)

By Dave Powell

Over the years, many people have asked online how to do macro photography with vintage Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLRs. Here’s a 2005 thread on the subject. Common wisdom says that Co...
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5 December, 2023

How to Refill an Ilford Disposable Camera

By Marco Manuzzi

So… you’ve just finished to shoot all around the city (or wherever you’d like) with your brand new BW disposable camera, what’s next? Chances are that yo...
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5 September, 2023

Rescue and Modification of a Ricoh Auto Half

By Stuart Jenkins

I’ve restored this cute little Japanese half-frame 35mm camera with a metering conversion from selenium to CdS, and the addition of adjustable focus. Here’s the stor...
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