Luckily I’d heard that this was possible from another Eric at the Photocenter in San Francisco and kept a lot of my old negative backings from my shots. I’m going to have to try this. I had been mostly scanning the prints to have digital files, but now I’m curious to see if there is more detail in the negatives – sounds like there could be. The bleach needs to have chlorine in it to remove the backing so youRead more
First Commercial Curved CMOS Sensor from Startup CURVE
Source: Image Sensors World: First Commercial Curved CMOS Sensor from Startup CURVE This is really interesting and I wonder how far into consumer and prosumer cameras this kind of sensor will migrate to. The curvature of the sensor provides a lot of potential benefits including smaller lighter lenses with higher maximum aperture, less CA, and light falloff/color cast. But if I understand this correctly, implies a fixed focus lens set up since you’d ideally want the sensor curve tuned toRead more
Russian Camera and Lens Maker Logo’s Reference page
I’m importing Zenit Lenses since 2019 to the US and I have been studying the different makers. I found some useful info on Logos and Factories on the Alfred Klomp website and wanted to save it here. Maybe someone else out there is also a fan of Russian lenses? I mean they are great tools for making creative images. Some are sharp but sharpness isn’t the point – the way a lens renders colors and the OOF areas can beRead more
Flange to Sensor Distance table for modern digital cameras.
Source: Guide to Understanding Flange Focal Distance from BrianSmith Pictures Understanding flange focal distance is really simple, so the reason why I’m sharing this page is because it has a really great table with flange to sensor distance for a lot of modern cameras. Having this info at hand can tell you if a lens can be adapted to another camera and still focus to infinity. Some quick takeaways – Shortest flange to sensor full frame camera right now isRead more
“all lenses are sharp… but modern lenes lack flavor”, Hong Kong camera guardian David Chan
Here’s a camera store and collector that I’d love to meet someday! Short video worth watching even just for the camera ‘porn’. He says something interesting to me (in the text translation anyhow) that “all lenses today are sharp”, but that modern lenses can lack flavor and can’t produce the unique texture that vintage lenses could. I think might be true. Many of the modern lenses are very well corrected, and perhaps some of the aberrations in older lenses areRead more
DIY Photo Project: Create beautiful abstract photos with polarized crystals – YouTube
I saw this video on making colorful images of crystals by using a cross polarizing technique and thought I’d save it for reference. But the principle is very simple – use two polarizing filters – one on either side of the subject. Maybe you could actually use anything that has a very small change in thickness that light can pass through – plastic sheet that you heat and press patterns into, whatever. DP review TV produced the video.Read more
3 Cool Camera designs by David Miller and Benjamin Hoffmann that I’d like to see built!
These are apparently the fruit of thesis work, but I’d love to see these built since they have some cool ideas. The box like camera on the left is called the Burst camera and takes 3 rapid exposures on one instax frame. The idea isn’t totally new since Polaroid One Step + can do it, but it’s still cool. The camera I really want is the Slitscan which you can read about if you follow the link, but is likeRead more
Фотопленка большого формата. Примеры фотографий с формата 8х10
If you have some interest in big sheet film photography, the lens, film stocks, or other related things – check out this blog by Denis and use the key word search on right panel. Lot’s of great photography and information there! Фотопленка большой формат. Пример фоотсъемки на большой формат. Проявители. Объективы. Камеры формата 8х10 4х5 5х7. Фотограф Денис Дорфф Source: Фотопленка большого формата. Примеры фотографий с формата 8х10Read more
Ricoh 500 – Experiences
I recently acquired a Ricoh 500 triggermatic rangefinder camera and will be posting my experiences with it here soon. These seem to be well built cameras – mine is from 1958 or so and still functions properly. Fits nicely in the hand and has lever arms on the focus throw and a fast film winding lever that unfolds at the base. For now this post will be a holding page for the research I’m doing on it as well. FromRead more
This Custom Circular Circuit Board Gives USB Control to Your Canon EOS Electronic Focus Optics! – Hackster.io
I think this is really interesting! I would love to see something like this for the Rolleiflex 6000 series PQ lenses which are really fantastic. And ideally manufacturers would adopt some kind of protocol so that their lenses could be more easily utilized on different platforms – nah that would never happen! Source: This Custom Circular Circuit Board Gives USB Control to Your Canon EOS Electronic Focus Optics! – Hackster.io Read more
A Simple Trick to Get Perfect Skin Tones Every Time in Post
Source: A Simple Trick to Get Perfect Skin Tones Every Time in Post Oh wow! I thought this was a great video with some great info on skin tones, and dang I guess I need to figure out how to edit my stills in video editing software now! Still don’t do video but I imagine sometime soon I’ll get started. by the way, the The No Film School looks to be a fantastic resource.Read more
Optimizing Ground Glass focusing screens
Seems like I am always trying to improve my focusing options, not just on my Rolleiflex, but also on all my older cameras and particularly on my LF cameras. There are a lot of factors to consider from the type of glass to the grit and process used, acid treatment, optical coatings, and then of course fresnels are almost their own subject. Lens fit to the camera can also affect the type of screen and fresnel you might want. IRead more