I recently took the plunge into medium format film photography and purchased a Mamiya RB67 with a broken focus rack and knob. I repaired it using CAD, a lathe and a 3D printer. I cloned the original focus knobs in CAD so anyone can 3D print...
Photo walks are something I had often read about online – photographers meeting together to walk, chat, and take photographs. But I had never really sought them out, purely because I believed…
Guillotine shutters are just what the name implies. A shutter in the form of a gravity driven guillotine. They can either be implemented as two plates that slide down one after another (the delay between release governing the exposure time) or a...
A great day with Sun and Snow to test the dynamic range of Cawanol Professional. You can judge for yourself in the sample image, virtually all highlights and shadows are protected. You can download the copyrighted full resolution image, scanned...
My love of the Polaroid SX-70 apparently extended to building a custom plate and interface for a shooting rig of larger proportion and much faster shooting.
Some pretty big news this update, the Chromabox has finally been unleashed on some film and has developed two sheets of Ilford FP4 plus perfectly! But more on that a little later...
The time approaches when I'm going to start running film through the Chromabox again which will involve taking some photos and videos of the prototype working, and the current laser-cut wooden body is pretty ugly. As I've mentioned previously the...
Historical Schneider lens data that used to be on the Schneider optics site but has been removed. I scraped the wayback machine and have represented it here for your convenience.
And now back to my normal broadcasting. Today's update is a bit of a 'bits and pieces' thing, the nature of the Chromabox-4 project at this time is that all of the major problems have been solved and now it's the relatively small but still very...
Back again! First I want to mention that sometime in July my contact form stopped forwarding emails to me and I only realised after somebody helpfully got in touch through the Facebook page. Serves me right for not checking the website more...
Complete tutorial for building a device that allows you to make sun exposures with the same amount of UV radiation even at different times and atmospheric conditions. Useful for cyanotype, gum bichromat, salted paper and other historical...
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