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12 August, 2020

Artefacts of a Laboratory – Adapting an enlarging lens to a Sony DSLR – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940 - also published in...

2 July, 2020

The Impact of Air Bubbles in the Optics of Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. Is it a stone? No, it's a prewar Contax. I say "almost unbreakable", as these poor specimens have seen better ...

22 June, 2020

FauXPAN, Just Another DIY 35mm Panorama Camera – By Freeman Lin

By Freeman Lin

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...

7 May, 2020

A Little Bricolage, or: How I Recovered Two Old Lenses – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

I’ll start with the Canon Super-Canomatic R 135mm f/2.5, but before I get going, its relevant to say that both Canon, Pentax K and Sony A have the same distance between le...

13 February, 2020

How I Shot A Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh

By brendensingh

Why make a micro-budget feature film? Well, I had the idea since I was 14 years old. I had a lot of free time at that age, having been kicked out of Secondary School and not bei...

12 February, 2020

A Paxette Pinhole Conversion and a walk in the Countryside – By Rock

By Rock

In an earlier post I suggested that the only thing left to do with my 1950s rangefinder 35mm was a pinhole conversion project, bearing in mind that most features were dead (invi...

17 December, 2019

CAMERADACTYL Brancopan 35mm Panoramic Camera: A Preview with Pictures – By Ethan

By cameradactyl

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...

10 December, 2019

A path from, and back to, a Yashica 40mm f/1.7 lens – by Anders Bjørn Jensen

By laminatministeren

I have been an amateur photographer since I was 13 years old (in 1982) when my first camera was a now long-since-bricked Yashica Electro 35 GX. As dead as it was though, my path...

Kodachromeguy on Argus C44R – The American Rangefinder
Tony, I often thought many American cameras had no industrial design. The Germans made beautiful Leica, Voigtlander, and Rolleiflex cameras.…
Gary Smith on Pentax Zoom 60 Auto – Thoughts from a 3rd roll
My bid on a Graflex 45 Crown was rejected so it's probably best to sleep on this itch anyway.
Tony Warren on Pentax Zoom 60 Auto – Thoughts from a 3rd roll
Thanks Gary. I have a post pending that might amuse you telling how I finally had to leave LF and…

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