5 November, 2024
My Square Story – Making my own 24×24 35mm Cameras
It is a long story. Longer than I expected. Yes – I didn’t expect anything but learning to frame and playing with a different aspect ratio. It is also story of Gea...
15 October, 2024
Can a Polaroid pack camera shoot 4×5?
The short answer: sort of… A Polaroid pack camera comes with a 114mm lens and basically covers a 3×4″ image. I was curious as to whether it could shoot 4×5...
3 October, 2024
More Adventures with C-Mount Marble Macros
This is my last article (for now) in a series about macro photography using C-mount cine lenses. (The first article is here and the second is here.) In the first, I tried three ...
2 October, 2024
Nikons SB-104 – A Substantial Battery Upgrade
I’ve always loved the sea, both from above and under, spending hours snorkeling and, at least when the water was clear enough, practicing brief apnea dives. This year, I t...
20 September, 2024
35mm Film Pot Pinhole Camera
I recently started following a friend of a friend on Instagram, who posts his black & white images fairly regularly and decided I should really be doing something similar as...
19 September, 2024
A DIY 35mm Film Stripper
A device for producing a 16mm strip from 35mm.
13 August, 2024
Shooting Sheet film in a Polaroid Pack Camera
My stash of Polaroid pack film was running low when I realized that all of my Polaroid pack cameras would be film orphans soon unless someone started producing pack film again. ...
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 ...
