A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
A balanced, three course meal of photography, tech and repair
I’ve recently spent some time restoring and using a few simple box style 120 film cameras in the form of the Ross-Ensign Ful-Vue, Ful-Vue Super and Ilford Envoy (coming soon to a Ravioli themed site near you). The Ensign cameras were designed to mimic the much more expensive Twin Lens…
It happens to everyone. One day you pick up a camera with every intention of making some images and then… nothing. No inspiration, no motivation, seemingly no opportunities or something always gets in the way of that opportunity. Maybe the last roll of film didn’t turn out as you expect,…
Recently I repaired a fungus infested Canon 30D and during the testing I tried to shoot a “mini planet” panoramic. If you don’t know what that entails, I can recommend the excellent video by Gavin Hoey linked here. In short, you have to shoot three sets of photos that cover…
In 1963 Canon introduced a rather unusual “sports action” camera called the Dial 35. The dial in the name doesn’t refer to the large knob on the side, rather the plastic ring surrounding the lens which adjusts the amount of light hitting the light sensor. This apparently resembled the popular…
Note: I’ve slightly updated this review after over a year of fairly heavy use. I still stand by the comments and views here and the long story short is the V600 is a perfectly decent, capable and useful scanner for the money. For the more in depth version, keep reading!…
It seems almost unbelievable that Canon were still designing and releasing film cameras as late as 2004, a time when the digital revolution was well and truly underway. Only one year later, in 2005, Canon would release the 350D, a camera which continued the legacy of the game changing 300D…
There is a surprising amount of argument about the origins of the many film sizes that have been produced since the late 1800’s. During the glory years of film photography, new film stocks and sizes were produced at an incredible rate and often just to accommodate a certain design feature…
Born in 1911, my Grandad grew up in something of a golden era of film photography. As far as I am aware, he started out with a Kodak Box Brownie and later moved on to a Voigtlander Bessa (which I now own) before making the transition to 35mm as most…
I recently bought a half frame wonder in the form of the Canon Demi EE-17 and after putting a roll of film through it I noticed that the frame counter wasn’t resetting when the film door was opened. Normally, a camera will go back to the “S” on the frame…