This article is a little different. It is very much focussed on a camera, but I’m hoping it will be of interest to photographers to give some background and understanding...
8 August, 2020
A Couple of Bodged Fixes for a Pentax PC35AF – By Seb Copley
After returning to analogue photography a few years ago with a Minolta Hi-Matic 7 rangefinder, I began looking for a second film camera. I was looking for something totally diff...
6 February, 2020
A slightly troubled tale of replacing vintage camera leather – by Christopher James
I’ve started seeing more photos of vintage cameras with their leather covers replaced, and to me they often look great. Other than a few useful flickr posts and some shor...
Inertia of mind is sometimes mind boggling. I've started my serious photography life with Sony nex-5 camera which replaced a briefly owned Nikon D40 for the reason of compactnes...
10 February, 2019
(Mis)adventures with a Minolta Himatic 7s – By Matt Evans
I had been trawling the online market places and managed to snag a Minolta Hi-matic 7s on trademe (the NZ version of ebay). It was advertised as being in excellent condition wit...
19 January, 2019
Function and Repair of Hasselblad Film Backs (A12 and others) – By Arild Edvard Båsmo
If you are reading this, you might have a magazine with some problems. This piece is written to help you. I found there to be very little documentation on the repair of these, b...
23 October, 2018
How to Calibrate a Canon P Rangefinder (in my case, for use with Soviet lenses) – by Cameradactyl (Ethan)
I am a fan of quirky old soviet cameras. I have had, loved, and broken a few Zorki 4 cameras over the years, and I love their lenses. I own Jupiter 8, 9 and 12 lenses (50mm f2...
Here is how I repaired my Voigtlander Nokton lens, the 42.5mm for the M43 system. I had dropped it. The lens filter, a B&W ultraviolet model, was shattered, and, worse, stuck on...
