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17 February, 2022

Learning To Lean Into Life’s Unknowns – by Brian Cox

By brian m cox

This project started as a way to get back to basics and mend my sometimes volatile relationship with photography. I love photography and camera’s equally. They are like childre...

15 February, 2022

A Custom Compact And Affordable 6×9 With A Heart For Travel – By Dirk Fletcher

By Dirk Fletcher

I’ve built a bunch of conversions out of a vintage folding Zeiss 520/15. Most of these 6x12 cameras end up with a 65mm f/8 lens. It wasn’t until I was commissioned to build a ...

25 January, 2022

3D Printing For My Photography Projects – By Andrea Bevacqua

By Andrea Bevacqua

A few months ago, after a bit of thinking, I bought a 3d printer. I say, "after a bit of thinking" because I did not want to spend my free time still in front of a monitor to de...

12 October, 2021

Wet Collodion Geekery – Some Tips and Tricks – By Markus Hoffstätter

By Markus Hofstätter

I have recently produced a series of videos that geek out on and provide various tips and tricks about various elements of the wet plate photography process, so thought I would ...

22 April, 2021

Designing a 3D Printed Scanning System for Cut Strip Negatives – By Stuart Jenkins

By Stuart Jenkins

I've designed and 3D printed some film holders that work well with cut strips, and the models are free to download on Thingiverse. It can be a faff to digitise your negatives w...

30 March, 2021

Presto Digitization with the CAMERADACTYL BoopBoop Trigger for mounted slides – By Ethan Moses

By cameradactyl

I wrote a long year in review article over on EMULSIVE about how I came to this project, how and why it came to be. This article is just going to stick mostly to the technicals...

1 March, 2021

Canon Sure Shot M Mini-Review & Auto-Flash Disable Modification

By Hamish Gill

Just before Christmas I spotted a rather injured looking Canon Sure Shot M (otherwise known as the Canon Prima Mini) in a second hand shop in town. I’ve looked at these cameras ...

5 February, 2021

A Digitisation Rig with a Nod To Mr H Robinson and a Surprise Along The Way – by Ralph Turner

By Ralph Turner

I’m not quite sure what triggered it, maybe a number of small mental prods: my son’s interest in film (he uses his Mum’s old Pentax K1000), being given a roll of Fuji C200 and a...

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Jalan on In Terms of “Terms”, and Giving, Taking, or Harvesting a Photograph
Bravo Simon! I added this line to my quote collection: "The responsibility in my opinion lies in the act, not…
Ibraar Hussain on High Risk, High Reward (or, Against Spray and Pray)
Good post and good points with very good captures! Thanks again
Ibraar Hussain on In Terms of “Terms”, and Giving, Taking, or Harvesting a Photograph
Very good rebuttal of Waylands article And agree - why should we change language and terminology? As for me I’m…

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