Today – April 25 – is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD for short), when anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph can upload it to the WPPD online gal...
7 December, 2020
Olyversal 2:1 Frame Camera Project – By Alexander Seidler
After a few years of shooting, and 2 or 3 hundred rolls of film I felt my experience was growing, and my GAS with it. I'd been shooting a lot of wide angle lenses, and wanted to...
26 October, 2020
Making, Measuring and Testing the “Optimal” Pinhole: Pinhole Adventures Part 3 – by Sroyon
There’s a scene in Jurassic Park where Dr. Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) gives the park’s creators a lecture on ethics. He ends with the famous line, “Your scie...
When you get right down to it, there are only three things a camera needs to do: form an image, record that image, and be otherwise light-tight. All the rest – focusing a...
21 September, 2020
Nine Homemade Cameras: Pinhole Adventures Part 1 – by Sroyon
Aren't humans amazing. We develop sophisticated technology – high-resolution sensors, superfast lenses – to record images. But we also make, and express ourselves with, the simp...
The Cameradactyl OG is a camera I have been meaning to write about since, well, ages ago (sorry Ethan). It's also my first large format camera review, and indeed the first large...
It was Day 6 of COVID-19 isolation, I was feeling more and more restless. Being one of the lucky ones, I could still work from home, but my mind was distracted by the barrage of...
I'm Ethan, I make cameras at Cameradactyl.com. A few months back I finished the initial prototypes for a new camera, the Brancopan, which is a 35mm panoramic camera that takes M...