27 August, 2024
Folk Art on Wheels — One-Shot Story
Anyone fond of later-20th- and early-21st-century automobiles will enjoy Jim Grey’s “Old Cars Parked” columns and his posts on the “Curbside Classic&...
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8 August, 2024
Adventures in C-Mount 110-Film Scanning
In a previous article, I explored macro-photography using C-mount cine lenses attached to a Fiji X-Pro1 APS-C digital. In those three experiments, I discovered that my mounting ...
24 July, 2024
Adventures in C-Mount Macro Land
C-mount lenses are the tiny optical jewels worn on the fronts of classic 16mm movie cameras. Their minuscule 17.526mm separation between the camera’s mounting flange and f...
11 June, 2024
Cleaning a Classic Canon f/1.2 LTM Lens
A while back, I snagged a beautiful Canon VI-T rangefinder camera for small bucks at a yard sale. It’s probably as close as I’ll ever come to owning a classic Leic...
3 April, 2024
There’s a Shadow in My Shoes! – A One-Shot Story
As I write this, London’s Tate Modern is hosting a major retrospective of Yoko Ono’s prolific, wildly varied art. Honestly, her work never much resonated. But some...
27 March, 2024
Give Broken Ones a Chance – Shooting a Damaged Leica CL
If you had spotted the above Leica CL film camera on eBay, it might have been described like this: USED LEICA CL (For Parts or Repair) The camera’s viewfinder is missing ...
29 February, 2024
That Time I Built an X-Pro1/Monitor-Six-20 “FrankenFuji”
In my days before 35mmc, Jim Gray published this article on his great “Down the Road” site. It described how and why I adapted a 1940’s Kodak Monitor Six-20 le...
26 February, 2024
Ansco’s “Super Memar f/2” – A Simple High-Quality Camera
Ever since I inherited this lovely camera, I’ve wanted to treat it to some black-and-white. But I waited until I had some successful trials with Caffenol under my belt (l...