Homemade Camera Podcast
Nick, Ethan & Graham talk about building and modifying cameras. New episodes on the 7th and 21st of each month.
Episodes
Ethan is away making magic in New York City so Nick and Graham go old school with a chatty old-timey podcast. They talk about what they've been doing since the last show, Graham's new Franken Holga 3D Stereo abomination to make pictures no one can figure out, the arrival of Nick's Lomograflok back for Instax Wide, Nick's appearance on Cameraocity (Cocaine and Waffles), and what a sustainable analog future might look like.
In Episode 75, we talk to David Hancock about his Kickstarter for a set of 4 different pinhole cameras, his YouTube channel, and why bamboo is a great building material.
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidmhancock/large-format-pinhole-cameras-to-build-at-home
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/hancockDavidM
Fireseller66 (maker of fine pinholes for pinhole cameras): https://www.ebay.com/sch/fireseller66/m.htm...
In this episode, we welcome in the wonderfully off-kilter mind of Joe Van Cleave. He talks about a bunch of wonderful stuff and he and Ethan demo the self-developing 20X24 Super Behemoth*.
*Not it's official name.
Graham received a message on Etsy from ArlenB asking if it's possible to recreate the Holga with a few twists.
"Out of curiosity, is there anything preventing you from making the plans to print a regular Holga 120GCFN, with an interchangeable lens, zone focusing, and no light leaks, or is that too difficult?"
This episode is a discussion about a potential Holga replacement.
Ethan has a surprise for us.
www.cameradactyl.com (keep checking back)
See Douwe’s slides for this project on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/96630454@N06/
Build your own enlarger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfvTjQ9MCwY
Mike Ware’s Cyanotype page: https://www.mikeware.co.uk/mikeware/New_Cyanotype_Process.html
David Allan on IG https://www.instagram.com/dbloomsday/
Anna Atkin’s cyanotypes: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/anna-atkins-cyanotypes-the-first-book-of-photographs.html
I'm not sure we actually talk much about chromatic aberration, it just sounded smart as a title.
We welcome in Jason Lane (https://www.pictoriographica.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/pictoriographica/) to talk everything lenses, dry plates and the secret base in the Antarctic.
We welcome in Jeremiah Jones, who you may know as @Sunny16_Photo on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sunny16_photo/) to talk about some of his camera builds and other stuff.
You can visit Jeremiah's work website (https://www.sewlabusa.com/).
No Nick this week.
Thanks to Robbie Cribbs of Soundtrap Studios (http://soundtrapstudios.com/Sound_trap_studios/Home.html) for composing the show's theme music and for allowing us to use i...
About 40 minutes in we experience some audio issues and the quality degrades and suddenly Graham is replaced with Wallace Shawn (thanks, Ethan). Sorry about that.
There are quite a few swears in this episode.
We welcome Erik Mathy (IG: erikhmathy) to talk about homemade lenses, how he got from the Land of Cheese to the Land of Fog, why you should match your lens to the subject you shoot, and many other things.
We welcome in Nicole Small (IG Nicole Small One on One https://www.instagram.com/nicolesmall_oneonone/) for a talk about her YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXbIGe6luBekTIvnKBhYIow) series on the Cyanotype process and all about the cameras she has built and will build in the near future.
Just a quick little catch-up on what we have been doing lately.
Ethan, Nick, and Graham get together to talk about stereo photography, the use of two lenses to create images that appear to be in 3D.
Graham is enthusiastic.
Nick is skeptical.
Ethan is pedantic.
Ian Fleming (https://www.instagram.com/ifleming/ or simply @ifleming) stops by in the latter part of the show to talk about his experiences with the subject.
You can read Ethan's Wiki article about Ren Ng (https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
We talk with Matt Bechberger of Reveni Labs about his new spot meter.
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattbechberger/reveni-labs-spot-meter-tiny-spot-meter-for-your-film-camera/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eqb5lGYvdY
Website: https://www.reveni-labs.com/
We talk about the fabulous (for homemade cameras) year that was 2020.
We experiment a bit with this episode. We livestreamed on a bunch of services and recorded it. Erik Mathy dropped by. Nick laments the paving of the world. Other stuff.
This week we talk about making your own lenses, why Back Focal Length is meaningless to Ethan, and how to play around with loose achromat lens elements to make your own, homemade lens.
The formula: Formula:
F = (f1 x f2) / (f1 + f2 - d)
BFL = (f2 x (d - f1)) / (d - (f1 + f2))
f1 is the front lens,
f2 is the back lens,
d is the distance between the lenses.
F is the focal length,
BFL is the distance between the back lens and the reco...
In this episode the boys talk about interesting camera components that they might want to build cameras around.
In this episode Ethan shows the guys his latest Kickstarter project and walks them through the design process from start to finish.
You can check out the Kickstarter for the final product here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/cameradactylmongoose
Check out the Youtube Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N82aUrmA0Zo&t=3225s
In this episode the boys talk to Graham Burnett of Graflexparts.com. Graham is an excellent repairman and modifier of graflex cameras and other antique but still in use classics. Graham might just make the best replacement graflex shutter curtains out there, and we talk about it and look into some of his resto-mods.
check out the homemade camera podcast at Homemadecamera.com
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