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I made a DIY large format guillotine shutter

March 13, 2017Ross den Otter

I found a WWII British Air Ministry Pentac 8 inch f2.9 lens in a second hand store about a year and a half ago. It was made under a military contract during the war and a number of British manufacturers filled this contract. The best of the lot were made by Dallmeyer, the original designer […]

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Caffenol – Processing film with coffee and other supermarket ingredients

February 23, 2017Ross den Otter

I’ve processed a lot of film. My first rolls were processed in the bathroom sink when I was a 13 year old kid. Later, I had the run of two darkrooms in my high school; they were crazy enough to give me a set of keys and I almost moved in. One of my first […]

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