So I got to thinkin’. I do this now and then – but today, sunday, in a brief moment of procrastinating on my homework, I’ve been thinking about Polaroids. I’ve been playing around with polaroid pack film for the last few months, doing some tinkering and battery adaptations and all that. I’d heard a few [...]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Donald Qualls’ Parodinal Recipe. Water – 250ml Paracetamol – 30x 500mg tablets Sodium Sulfite – 50g Sodium Hydroxide – 20g EDIT: Yep, Sodium Sulfite isn’t Washing Soda…that would be Sodium Carbonate. That’s what I get for not taking highschool chemistry. So what I made up before was pretty much useless. I’ll get some Sodium Sulfite [...]
Mercury batteries provide a pretty consistent voltage over the course of their life, so this was quite an ideal choice when designing a camera back in the day. Light meters require an solid voltage to be accurate, so using mercury batteries was a pretty good way to skirt the added cost of a voltage stabaliser [...]
For my 18th birthday last year my parents gave me an Anniversary Speed Graphic 4×5″ field camera…which I helped them buy off eBay for me. Since I nipped off to Alaska not long after, then spent all summer being poor and bored, then went off to university, I didn’t get much time to sit down [...]
Yep, another technical post! We’ve looked at aspect ratios, now we’ll look at ideal focal lengths. As you may know, 50mm is intended to be the ideal focal length for 35mm photography. It provides roughly the same angle of view as the human eye. Why is this so? Well to work out the ideal focal [...]