Now is the time on sprockets when we dance: Sweet tutorial by photographer Cameron Stephen. You can see his work at his blog, The Plastic Lens, and here on Flickr. Related: 35mm Sprocket Holes group on Flickr

Check out this gallery of amazing pinhole cameras that I think are homemade, probably by a designer named Hyun Kwanghun. But I’m not sure because I can’t read Korean. Very cool stuff though! Via Chris Keeney

Here are nefotografas‘s instructions for adapting the very cheap Kodak Instamatic 100 camera to use 35mm film. There’s also a bigger version here. This looks very easy to do, no major camera surgery required. Nice!

The Jobo daylight film processing system seems confusing at first, and their web site is an unhelpful mess, but IMO it’s worth working through, because the stuff is good and does what it says it’s going to do well. Here’s what I have (all link to B&H): #2561 tank with magnet base, holds 2 x [...]

Check out this eBay auction for a reducing back that allows you to shoot 35mm film on an 8×10 Deardorff field camera! Thanks to Tom Persinger for the heads-up.

I just snagged an Olympus Pen FT from fleabay. The Pen F series are half-frame 35mm SLRs (what actually used to be "full frame", the size that 35mm cinema frames still are… what we today call full frame was originally called double frame!). Square composition definitely shook my world up, and I’m excited to see [...]

Carl Zeiss AG Press Release: Oberkochen, August 15, 2006. The Zeiss Ikon SW is the 35mm precision camera for uncompromising superwide photographers. Its lens mount takes any lens with M bayonet, in particular the ZEISS high performance superwide-angle lenses Distagon T* 2,8/15mm ZM and the Biogon T* types from the ZEISS ZM range. An accessory [...]

Remember the saying "film is cheap"? Those days are gone—or at least going. Fuji has announced the end of production for Neopan black and white films in 100-foot (30.5 meter) bulk roll format, scheduled for March 2007. The films will continue to be available in pre-loaded cassettes, and of course other formats like 120 and [...]

Rewind your 35mm film all the way into the canister and need to get the leader out again? Here’s how to do it with a piece of film.

From Kodak’s press release: "Kodak has significantly reduced the static attraction of its processed professional and consumer 35mm capture films worldwide. Recent photofinishing tests indicate that the humidity-independent static protection of this new 35mm film support yields frames with nearly 65 percent less printing dirt or white spots – a common frustration among lab owners. [...]