Recent content by PeterSpencer

Or use a camera lucida for the ultimate maximum interval between frames.

My Robot cameras take 24x24 mm frames on 35mm.

I have a Voigtlander rangefinder and a Photopia. Both are calibrated in feet, OK for my Bessa I and Vito II but no use for a couple of folders with metre focussing scales. I recently tried to sell the Photopia but no luck. Actually what I wanted was to swap the Photopia for a finder calibrated...

Interesting angles on Little Moreton Hall

No. 3 ACME SYNCHRO shutter.

Also took delivery of this beauty, a Burke and James Press camera from the 1950s, although not the version with the rangefinder like a Graflex. It's a simple technical type camera, quite compact. The movements available are front tilt, rise and fall and lateral shift. The camera also has a...

I finally got round to building a vortoscope to make vortographs (https://boshamgallery.com/blog/28-what-is-a-vortograph-the-world-s-first-truly-abstract-photographs-were-made/). Here it is mounted on my Canon A1. It is made with three mirrors in the manner of a kaleidoscope. It's fitted with a...

Vuescan, but being a 'vertical' application you might have to put up with having to spend a bit of time learning how to use it, it's worth it. Until the advent of Windows 11 I used Epson Scan with my V700 because, by nature, I'm lazy. My definition of 'vertical' application... A computer...

The thing over the viewfinder must be a mask which you use when the camera is used for long exposures on a tripod, it prevents light from the viewfinder getting back to the internal light meter. You can slide it onto your strap to carry it around.

Other Edison Screw lamps spring to mind, for example modelling lamps like these...

I've been to Scarborough quite a few times, I had some relatives who lived there and I played with a brass band on the floating bandstand in Peasholme Park more than once. The thing I remember about The Grand is that it was completely encrusted in seagull guano, as was (is?) most of Scarborough...

This picture immediately sprang to mind but then I realised it's digital, damn. Two aliens I met at the Easter fair at the Ally Pally, maybe 2005.

Question; how do you make a pink model pig? Answer; Form the papier mâché round an inflated balloon! Zorki I, Industar 22 50/3.5 collapsible lens, Fuji Superia XTRA 400. Made a poor job of post processing this film, over sharpened to death. The lens was outstanding, better than the Elmar I...

Well these bring memories back! My first wife came from Darwen and lived just off Belgrave Road at the bottom of the park. Both her grand parents lived on Belgrave road beside the park and her great uncle lived on the other side of the park. And we used to hang out in that shelter at the bottom...

A conclusive win for the master FishyFish with his shot of a chair positioning ballet. Congratulations dude.