Recent content by mzjo

If you are looking for alternative lenses for a C33 (and, I think, one of the C330 variants) you should be aware that Mamiya TLR lenses are not all the same and that there are lenses that will not fit on a C33. There are references out on the net (I have seen this in a comprehensive timeline for...

I have seen a few mentions of Verichrome Pan in the suggestions on this thread. It is one film that I really miss. Quite why I am not sure; I'm not equipped materially or intellectually to analyse it. However I used it in Brownies, 127 and 620. I presume it was made in 120 as well but I don't...

Sorry that I am coming a bit late to the party; I read the thread a while ago but forgot to look where it was on the site. Having done a couple of cardboard box pinhole cameras I would advise looking at attaching them firmly to whatever support you use. Mine used (still use until I fix up...

Nice looking at all this exclusive machinery that everyone seems to have as a matter of course. I even got inspired to look up what an Argos C3 was - were they ever sold outside the US? My GOAT is a bit more humble - my grandmother's Brownie Model D (I think that should be 620 Brownie ....)...

I can also recommend Maël. He lives not far from me and has done work for me (only one lens so far but I have other things waiting for him). He also participates from time to time in the french analogue forum. He generally sticks to mechanical stuff so best to send him a mail with a photo of...

I have tree plateholders that came with my Orionwerke. None of them would appear to be right for the camera. Two have just the single rib on the side and no rib on the bottom and are just slightly too short so I can't lock them with the little lock that also holds the g glass in place. But they...

This is undoubtedly the direction I will be going in (I have just cleaned the rotting foam off a Patterson contact printer to start making it useful as well), although I was thinking in terms of led UV panels. But my interest is still in printing small rather than big. However, now that I now I...

Thank you for that advice which helps clarify things. Why ask about acylic? It's a very simple little thing but if one wants to use a very small picture frame as a contact press then there are very small acrylic clip type frames available for very little money in sizes which don't appear to...

As the title says. I am going to have a go at cyanotype prints, on a very small scale, just for the fun and to see where it leads. UV sunlight being a bit scarce at the moment I am thinking of experimenting with a UV source designed for gluing (or something similar) false fingernails. The...

My regular 35mm film is also Fomapan 100, because bought in bulk it's affordable on a tiny pension! I like it (but not more than FP4 that I shot in the 80's and also bought in bulk). When I have a camera with a working meter it's box speed, when not it's a guess or a toy camera without...

Either way, film or paper, give yourself enough time to test to find the right exposure times. I have done both, film in adapted slr cameras and paper in diy boxes. If going down the large format diy route and if you have access to a 3D printer it is worth looking on the net for 3D printed film...

If it wasn't for the fact that it's a folder without any aid to focussing other than a scale with a red mark that I take to be a hyper-focal aid, my 1934 Lumière Lumirex might well be close to what you might like. Soft lens probably a triplet, 105mm f6.3-22, 3 speeds 25-100 +B and T. The bellows...

About time I put something up here. @Terry, you know this one already! Site Corot, St Junien France. Foma FP100 35mm, Rodinal I think (can't be bothered to get out of my armchair to check!), scan of a paper print on Fomaspeed. Camera Canon EOS 300 with diy brass shim pinhole about f250. Happy...

I've got a meniscus lens (plastic I think) out of a 1950's french 6x9 bakelite box camera (that I wanted to convert to pinhole). It might not clean up very well and the diameter is a bit small for playing with an slr but you're welcome to play with it if you want. Fl about 90mm I guess. Let me...

Very interesting to read all your views after having read the article. I am a slightly older generation, I have a lot of negatives saved from the 1960's onwards, also several boxes of slides taken by my dad in East Africa (family but also wider subjects). My contribution doesn't start really...