Workshop
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Solar UV Exposure Meter | complete project
Complete tutorial for building a device that allows you to make sun exposures with the same amount of UV radiation even at different times and atmospheric conditions. Useful for cyanotype, gum bichromat, salted paper and other historical photographic printing processes.
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Magnetic Stirrer
Complete and detailed tutorial for you to produce a magnetic stirrer. It is an invaluable aid for preparing solutions in analog photography, such as developers and fixers. Assembly is very simple and uses low cost components.
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Respooling 127 film from 120
Complete tutorial about how to cut 120 to 127 film format and spool it into a 127 film reel. Materials, devices, video and measurements, everything you need to know to use again your cute Baby 127 camera.
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Homemaded contact printer
Tutorial with video for building up a photography contact printer. That can be used for large format photographs and also for UV alternative/historical processes like Van Dyke Brown, Cyanotype, Gum Dichromate, Salted Paper, Platinum/Palladium among others.
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Build your 4×5″ camera back
Tutorial shows step-by-step and constructive details to make a large format camera back to work with standard film holders, sizes 4×5″ and 9×12 cm.
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Bellows project tailor-made for you
Application creates a .pdf for a bellows used on photo cameras of any size. The drawing indicates the cut-and-fold lines in life size. You indicate the measures, pay via Pay Pal and receive the project by email within a few minutes.
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Ground glass loupe, easy and useful
Ground glass loupe, easy and useful Quite often we want to check focus more carefully in a view camera . To do that, the obvious idea, goes about using something that enlarges the projected image allowing for more precision than with bare eyes to inspect image’s sharpness. Three problems generally arise when using common loupes and…
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Measuring lens aperture
Article explains a method for evaluating lens aperture without dismantling the lens. It can be also the basis for calculating diaphragm diameters for Waterhouse stops according to a desired apertures scale.
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Flash powder, light a lot with just a little
Flash powder, light a lot with just a little Everyone has seen a photographer, in movies, burning something that seems to make more smoke than light. That was the flash powder. It consists of a metal part and an oxidant. A mixture that resembles gunpowder. This was used for photography from its very first decades up to nearly…
