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5 January, 2015

Adjusting a Leica M3 to focus closer than 1 metre

By Hamish Gill

I bought an Leica M3 on ebay over Christmas. To be honest, when I came around from the excitement and realised that I had bought a Leica M3 on ebay, I did worry a little bit. My...

14 December, 2014

Modification of Pentax Espio Mini to retain flash settings

By Hamish Gill

As part of the process of playing with, testing and reviewing the Pentax Espio Mini – in much the same way as I did with the Oly mju-ii – I have become intrigued by ...

26 October, 2014

Flash switch hack for the Olympus AF-10 super

By Hamish Gill

Edit: Since writing this post, I have also written a review of this brilliantly crap camera – Olympus AF-10 Super or: Pushing the functional limits of a crap point & s...

22 April, 2014

Modification of Pentax PC35AF to kill the beeping

By Hamish Gill

I’m on the look out for another Pentax PC35af at the moment, as the one featured in this article, along with two others I have has a dicky AF. It seems failing AF is a fai...

8 March, 2014

How to Recode / Edit the DX barcode on 35mm Film Canisters

By Hamish Gill

The DX barcode on a 35mm roll of film is there, in part, to tell the camera it’s put into what ISO the film is. The majority of cameras from the mid 80’s onwards rea...

12 January, 2014

How to Adapt a 675za Hearing aid Battery for use as a px625 replacement

By Hamish Gill

The old 1.35v mercury px625 batteries are no longer available. There is a modern equivalent px625 replacement batery, made as far as I can tell exclusively by wein but they aren...

24 September, 2013

How to Home Brew Redscale Film

By Hamish Gill

I have had a passing interesting in giving redscale film a go for a while now, I’ve just never been that confident it was worth shelling out the cash for. But since I...

11 August, 2013

Modification of Olympus mju-ii to retain flash settings

By Hamish Gill

I am still writing my review of the olympus mju-ii, but this modification might give some clue to one of my thoughts regarding it. The camera’s inability to retain it̵...

Leonel Leyva C on 5 Frames with a Canon T90 & Polaroid PolaChrome
A great camera, the Canon T90... In the 90s my brother lent me his and it was a great experience.…
Simon Davis on Lytro Light-field Camera – Cutting Edge Jankuary Kit
Thanks. It is a shame. So much money, research and the hardware is very good quality and works fine, but…
Bill Waggoner on 5 Frames with a Canon T90 & Polaroid PolaChrome
Tony, good eye. The home was Frank Llyod Wright's team that had to take on the the construction as Frank…

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