Jul24
Making Polaroid Emulsion Lifts
Over the last few months, we’ve been taking a lot of Polaroids with both Polaroid 600 and Polaroid SX-70 cameras. We’ve made most of these into emulsion lifts, a process which seems fiddly and surprisingly time consuming at first (if not a...
Jul24
Toyo Metal Field 4 3/4″ x 6 1/2″ Sakai Special Camera
Recently I bought a Toyo Metal Field 4 3/4″ x 6 1/2″ (half plate) camera manufactured by Sakai Special Camera Manufacturing Co. These cameras were made between 1963 and 1975 and are lightweight considering they are of full metal construction,...
Jan30
Adventures in Hand Tinting Wet Collodion Images at Rabbit Hole Studios
By Kate Horsley Brewer and Martina Jones We’ve recently been conducting some experiments into the art of hand-tinting wet collodion plates at Rabbit Hole Studios. These began by setting up a still life, pictured below, of which we took a number...
Nov14
Soldering on… a blog in which John converts a bi-pole flash connector into a PC flash connector
Having acquired a new lens earlier this year, John found that he couldn’t use flash, as the lens didn’t have a PC socket. Instead, it had a bi-pole flash connector. Asking for help on Facebook, several people came up with suggestions. Charles...
