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24 January, 2015

A Quick Guide to a Rangefinder’s Effective Base Length (EBL)

By Hamish Gill

I recently published my thoughts on the Voigtlander R2a and R3a two great cameras that have one major caveat – their short rangefinder effective base length. I’m now...

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...

23 May, 2013

Scale/Zone Focusing – A Tutorial

By Hamish Gill

After publishing this, I was asked to write a more detailed version of this post for the Ilford Photo website – you can find it here Scale/Zone focusing is a very simple m...

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