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!

According to Photography BLOG, Fujifilm will display a prototype of a new medium format camera at PMA this year (the Photo Marketing Association trade show), which runs from 31 Jan – 2 Feb, 2008. They say that “details … are scarce at the moment, so we’ll try and get more info for you next week [...]

Australian Polaroid-to-4×5-rangefinder camera modifier Razzledog built a prototype 4×5 SLR! He says: I have long had dreams of building a 4×5 SLR……so this prototype is currently under review. The advantages are finally the image is right side up, so I no longer have to stand on my head….. I don’t have to worry about any [...]

Check out this sweet half-frame camera modification by bricolage.108! If I understand the annotated version on Flickr correctly, he’s put in a sliding mask that blocks off half the frame at a time and a cord that you pull to re-cock the shutter without advancing the frame. So the sequence is: make an exposure, move [...]

Think you’re cutting edge and cool because you lead an up-to-the-minute digital lifestyle and shoot digital because film is old? Fuck you! Think you’re more virtuous than the unwashed infidel masses because you shoot film and only listen to music on vinyl? Fuck you, too! Of course if you’re in either of these groups, you’re [...]

Here’s how to solve one of those "oh, shit" moments, when your Hasselblad body gets stuck: Ordinarily the lens and body are both cocked. You cannot install a lens unless both the lens and the body are cocked. However, you cannot remove a lens unless both units are cocked. When the condition is otherwise, the [...]

Mac A. Cody writes: On one of my robots, I wanted to place a camera that could observe everything around it. The camera did not have to have a high frame rate. It was not going to be used for motion capture or real-time autonomous driving. It did need to have a 360 degree field [...]

Flickr member bricolage.108 hacked a 35mm trashcam into a double-sided lens/pinhole monster. He writes: If using a normal film roll this camera takes redscaled ["redscale" is where you shoot the film backwards, so the light gets filtered through the antihalation layers before hitting the emulsion and turns the image red/orange or yellow, depending on the [...]

Flickr member Sreiny made this pinhole camera from a book. Check out more photos of the construction of the camera and photos it made in this photoset on Flickr. Via MAKE Blog

Check out Will Luo‘s sweet 3rd-generation homemade pinholga floppy disc shutter. He writes: the third incarnation of the pinholga’s shutter. i got the idea of using a floppy disk from this blog entry. this one is customized for the holga though. it was much easier and faster to make than the last version: 1. cut [...]