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Latest Newsletter from Everything Vintage – Dec 2024
This is one of the very occasional newsletters I produce to highlight new articles that have been added to the Everything Vintage site.
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My useful 9.5mm scanner for amateur cine film
This post is an update on the progress of my telecine project and describes how I made a new 9.5mm scanner to join the original standard 8 and super 8 model.
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Final iteration of my 8mm film scanner
The final version of my 8mm film scanner project is detailed, featuring hardware and software modifications on a robust Chinon Universal projector platform, utilizing Raspberry Pi technology for digital conversion.
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An update on my 8 mm telecine machine
An update on the 8 mm telecine machine series that I started a couple of years ago.
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How does a simple Crystal Set work?
This article looks at how a simple crystal set radio receiver, which was the first proper vintage radio, works.
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Introducing the 1st Everything Vintage newsletter
This is a post to introduce the Everything Vintage Newsletter to anyone who is subscribed to the site via the WordPress network run by Jetpack
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Welcome to the new Everything Vintage site
An introduction to the Everything Vintage website and why I created it.
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About the Found Film section of this site
An introduction to the Found Film section of the Everything Vintage site
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The Medis Rangefinder – a very useful accessory from the 1960s
A very useful accessory for photographers in the 1950s and 60s - the Medis Rangefinder.
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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.
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Beautiful photos of Saint Mark’s square, Venice, circa 1955
All the photos in this 'Snapshots in Time' post were taken in Saint Mark's Square, Venice on a sunny day in the mid 1950s.
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Paris on the Eve of Bastille day in 1965
A Post featuring photos taken by an amateur photographer in the City of Paris on the day before Bastille day, 1965
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Photographer Profile: Peter Caney
A profile of a photographer featured on the found-film site, Peter Caney.
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A Glorious Holiday in Switzerland in the early 1960s
Some photos of a glorious holiday enjoyed by a photographer and her family in Switzerland in the early 1960s
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Some wonderful Kodachrome portraits from 1959
A set of wonderful Kodachrome portraits from 1959 which show all the clarity and colour they had when originally taken over 60 years ago.
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Photos of the Kingston Flyer Steam train in New Zealand
The photos in this post show a vintage steam train called the Kingston Flyer in New Zealand and were taken in May 2003
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Views and Scenes from Lake Garda in Italy – October 1993
A Post featuring some Kodachrome colour slides which were taken around Lake Garda in Italy in October 1993.
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A Huge donation of slides to the Found Film archive
This post describes a huge donation of Kodachrome colour slides which has just been made to the found-film site.
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8mm Telecine machine – Shutter and frame ready trigger
A detailed post explaining the changes I needed to make to the Eumig P8 shutter during its conversion to a Telecine machine
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Converting a Eumig P8 Novo projector to a telecine machine.
This post describes how I constructed an 8mm telecine machine from a Eumig P8 novo 8mm projector.
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Family snapshots from Plymouth Royal Citadel in the 1950s
Some snapshots from the Plymouth Royal Citadel taken during the 1950s
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Brandes ‘superior’ BBC headphones from c 1945
A look at a pair of Brandes headphones from about 1945 which were used by my Father for most of his life.
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Black & White negatives from the 1930s
Some black & white negatives which were taken in the 1930s which I recently discovered in a box of vintage cameras
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Lost amateur photos from the 1950s
A post which features photos taken by forgotten amateur photographers in the 1950s.
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