The Medis Rangefinder – a very useful accessory from the 1960s
A very useful accessory for photographers in the 1950s and 60s – the Medis Rangefinder.
Camera
A useful addition for a photographer – a Stitz M40 Light Meter
A look at the Stitz M40 light meter, an example of one of the first accessories many photographers would have purchased when they started photography.
Vintage Kalimar exposure meter
Occasionally when I purchase a vintage camera for my collection there are other bits-n-pieces which accompany it and this post features one of those accessories – the Kalimar Exposure meter.
Making a Topcor UV to Nex mount adapter
The post shows how I constructed a mount adapter for Topcon UV lenses for my Sony NEX 6 mirrorless camera.
Testing a vintage camera’s shutter
This post is in the series about testing vintage cameras and deals with testing a vintage camera’s shutter
A handful of Gossen light meters
The latest additions to my vintage camera collection are not cameras at all, but a couple of light meters. I have the Gossen Sixtomat which was a popular model in the 1950s, and a Gossen Sixtino
Slide duplication v Slide scanning
This post discusses the merits of using a slide duplicator to make digital copies of colour slides rather than a scanner.
Some very useful photographers accessories – the Weston Light meter
Another in my series about my vintage camera collection, but this time something a bit different. It’s not a camera, but a Weston light meter.
Daylight film developing with a vintage Agfa Rondinax 35u
In this post I talk about my experiences of developing film in an Agfa Rondinax 35u Daylight developing Tank – sometimes also known as the Agfa Rodinax.
Vintage photography – printing your own pictures
A short post describing the process of printing photographs using the traditional chemical process.
Vintage photography – film processing
This will be unusual because it’s not a photo post, it’s a brief walk back in time to a point before digital cameras and HD displays to a time when taking a photo was a purely analogue process involving chemicals, mechanics and light.