In the last few years there seems to have been loads of innovation around the democratisation of manufacturing, with 3D printing being - at least to me - almost the poster-boy f...
5 November, 2017
Leica M-Mount Modified Yashica Electro 45mm f/1.7 lens
Regular readers of this website will be aware of my interest in modified and modifying lenses to work on Leica cameras. I guess this is why Ellis, or f1.420 as he goes by on Ins...
29 October, 2017
Modding a 28mm Canon Demi C lens for M39 mount – by Tobias Eriksson
Following on from my Canon Demi C review, I wanted to write something about the orphaned lens that came about from me only shooting it with the 50mm. Having that nice lens gathe...
I really enjoyed Hamish's recent articles about the Sony A7RII, and the one regarding the never ending “film vs digital” debate. To me, these two articles felt as though they we...
In the last post in this series I talked bout how viable it is to use an unmodified Jupiter-8 on a Leica rangefinder - following on from that, I thought I might like to find out...
28 May, 2017
Tips and a DIY tool for film loading using a 35mm Paterson Tank System – guest post by Guy
Following on from the Parallax review of the Paterson reel system, I thought I would share a few quick tips and a little home made device a use for helping load one. This might ...
27 May, 2017
Canon AF-10 DIY LTM lens conversion
For a good while now I have been fascinated by the idea of hacking compact camera lenses to work on my Leica cameras. So far this has taken me down a few paths, with one end of ...
I've just loaded my Lubitel 166b 120 6x6 format film camera with a roll of 35mm film... so thought I'd write a quick post to demonstrate how.
