Camera Hacking & DIY Category

Check out this how-to on using 120 film in a 616 camera from Gayla

Six-16 film is pretty near impossible to find and when you do the developing cost is high and probably not worth the expense. Here’s how I modified 120 film spools to fit inside a 616 camera. Keep in mind that 616 film […]

Francesco Capponi made this pinhole camera out of a pine nut! It shoots 18×7mm frames. Check out the rather awesome portraits he made with it here.
Thanks to Decepticrat for the heads-up; via MAKE Blog

Check out these how-to videos by Luke Healey on loading 120 film onto reels for at-home DIY film processing.
 
Loading metal reels:

 
Loading Paterson plastic reels:

I just modified a friend’s Polaroid Automatic 100 Land camera to take normal AAA batteries. I followed the battery conversion instructions from option-8’s excellent Converting Vintage Polaroids, and it went really smoothly.
I did end up having to shave a few mm off of the two plastic supports that held up the original battery holder to […]

Check out this two-part video tutorial by Michael C. Pastur on converting a Polaroid Super Shooter camera (tied with the SLR680 as my new favorites) into a pinhole camera. Thanks to Captoe for the heads-up!
Part 1

Part 2

Check out Rob’s DIY 555-based remote timer for Canon SLRs! He says:

Canon makes a SLR camera remote timer that sells for a couple hundred dollars. Using inspiration from various web sites I built one for myself using about $15 worth of parts from RadioShack.
First, it is a simple wired camera remote control. Just plug the […]

Brass lens madman enthusiast Jim Galli offered this incredibly useful piece of advice on the Large Format Photography Forum:

Since I almost never use my antiques [lenses] at infinity, (they are usually approaching 1:1 for a portrait) I make my waterhouse stops to “known’s” like 1 inch or 30mm. Then I measure the distance from stop […]

Dealing with Polaroid peel-apart film in the field is a bit of a pain, because once you peel it, you need to think of something to do with the print, and protect it from dust, bugs, and dirt, whilst it dries. Some of them are pretty fast, but some, like 669, seem to take ages. […]

Shikihan made this insane 6×17 "Limousine" pinhole camera out of a Holga! You can see two test shots made with it in Tokyo here and here on Flickr.
She’s made a bunch of other cool pinhole cameras (and makes great photos with them), check them out!

Check out freerobotpants‘ simple and effective hack for adding spool tension to Diana toy cameras: tape!