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Scanning sprocket holes tutorial video

Posted October 4, 2009 in Videos

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

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Gallery of amazing homemade pinhole cameras

Posted September 13, 2009 in Camera Hacking & DIY + Pinhole

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

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Conversion: Kodak Instamatic 100 to 35mm film

Posted June 24, 2009 in Camera Hacking & DIY

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!

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Making sense of Jobo daylight film processing tanks

Posted April 17, 2008 in Kit/Equipment

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 [...]

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Less cowbell: 35mm reducing back for 8×10 view camera

Posted September 19, 2007 in Random

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.

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Get vertical

Posted February 27, 2007 in Kit/Equipment

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 [...]

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Zeiss Ikon SW superwide 35mm viewfinder camera

Posted August 15, 2006 in Kit/Equipment + Product News

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 [...]

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Fuji to discontinue bulk 35mm film

Posted July 21, 2006 in Product News

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 [...]

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Improvized 35mm film leader retriever

Posted May 21, 2006 in Camera Hacking & DIY

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.

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Kodak reduce static attraction of 35mm films

Posted February 20, 2006 in Product News

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. [...]

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