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...
I’ve often observed from afar large format photographers esoterically divining their cameras and producing photos that my 35mm camera could only dream about. But I was lar...
3 June, 2024
My Homemade 6×12 Format Camera.
I have been prompted by some of the comments received on my recent One Shot Story to pull up an article about the camera I used and some of my results from it. I had put it asid...
8 December, 2023
The Cirkut-Holga: A toy slitscan panorama camera
Last year, a friend sent me an article about someone using a 100 year old Cirkut camera to make amazing contact-printed panoramic photos on 8 inch wide paper. I hadn’t kn...
25 September, 2023
Developing and Shooting a 3D Printed Large Format Leaf Shutter
I have been a reader of this blog for quite a few years. I must have stumbled upon it around the time I was getting into film photography and was working through decades of phot...
26 May, 2023
That Time I Shot with Ilford Multigrade RC as film.
Many moons ago I was keen to try my hand with large format, as large as I could manage, 10 x 8 seeming a good choice. You can tell how long ago from my pinhole shot of the Humbe...
When I became aware of the existence of the Solarcan™ (the cheap and easy yet effective famous solargraphy pinhole camera), I immediately ordered one and, lucky me, recei...
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 ...