Once my pinhole camera was finished the next decision was should I use film or paper for the negatives? To be honest for me it was a fairly simple decision. I had made a pinhole camera really just to see if I could do it and then I planned to use it to decide ifContinue reading “Pinhole Camera: Part 4”
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Pinhole camera: Part 3
Now it’s time to make the pinhole. For this I followed the methods described by SROYON on the 35mmc website ( https://www.35mmc.com/26/10/2020/making-measuring-and-testing-the-optimal-pinhole-pinhole-adventures-part-3-by-sroyon/). This is well worth a read as it explains a lot about how to decide what size pinhole to use, how to make them and various ways of measuring them. I’m not goingContinue reading “Pinhole camera: Part 3”
Pinhole camera: Part 2
So the back of the camera which will take the film holder is all done apart from painting. The next jobs are to make the body of the camera and then the front plate which will hold the pinhole and the shutter. The plan for the body is a simple open ended box made outContinue reading “Pinhole camera: Part 2”
Pinhole camera: Part 1
For quite some time I’ve been pondering over making my own 4×5 large format camera out of wood. As well as an interest in photography I also enjoy woodworking and have some suitable tools so it’s not unreasonable that I should combine two hobbies. There are lots of examples of other people doing just theContinue reading “Pinhole camera: Part 1”
Alderley Edge Miner’s Ramble
In the run up towards Christmas this year I took the opportunity to go over to nearby Alderley Edge for a walk in the woods there and I took my Zorki with me. Alderley Edge is a popular place of people to wander around and get some fresh air and is looked after by theContinue reading “Alderley Edge Miner’s Ramble”
Biddulph Grange
I visited Biddulph Grange in September when the gardens were reopened to visitors and took my Zorki 4 along with me. Biddulph Grange gardens were developed by James Bateman using money he inherited from his father, who had become rich from coal and steel businesses. James Bateman moved to Biddulph Grange around 1840 and createdContinue reading “Biddulph Grange”
St Mary’s Lighthouse
It’s been a while since I last posted as I haven’t been going out too much because of Covid-19 and I’ve been spending a lot of time working in the garden. Now that it’s getting colder I thought I’d look through some photographs I hadn’t published before and post them. Much the same time asContinue reading “St Mary’s Lighthouse”
A second outing with my ‘new’ lens
Following on from my trip around Bollington, Cheshire to try out my newly ebay purchased 50mm 1.7 Pentax-A lens, I went out again this time exploring some of the staircases in Macclesfield which connect the lower part of the town, where the railway station is, with the main town square. Another cold dull day butContinue reading “A second outing with my ‘new’ lens”
Now I have a scanner of my own
In my last post I tried to compare the quality of commercial scans of my 35mm negatives with various home brewed low cost alternative methods. The overall conclusion I came to was that none of the alternatives I tried were really up to the job so after much research and several changes of mind IContinue reading “Now I have a scanner of my own”
I decided to start developing my own film
You might have gathered by now that I didn’t really like the combination of contrast and grain I was seeing from the Delta 100 film that I was having commercially developed and scanned, so I started looking for some equipment on ebay so that I could do my own processing. I already had a fewContinue reading “I decided to start developing my own film”
First film through the Zorki
After changing my mind so many times I eventually bought some Ilford Delta 100 film to try out the Zorki. I’m still not sure why I chose this film but I had long since lost any preference for one film over another that I think I must have decided to try something new – atContinue reading “First film through the Zorki”
Why would you want to buy an old film camera?
When I was ten or eleven, I was given a camera for my birthday, a Brownie 127. I loved that little camera. Sure it had a simple fixed focus lens and could only take photos in good light but at least I could point it where I wanted to. In truth I wasn’t much ofContinue reading “Why would you want to buy an old film camera?”
I BOUGHT AN OLD FILM CAMERA 