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Nick, Ethan & Graham talk about building and modifying cameras. New episodes on the 7th and 21st of each month.
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Monday Apr 05, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
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/wiki/Ren_Ng). However, Ethan's presentation about stereo photography that he presented in front of 1 (one, as in one more than zero, which we should all acknowledge is greater than zero) is not currently available on the interwebs. He thinks he can resurrect it and if he can, we all think he should put it on the Homemade Camera YouTube.
And, speaking of, this episode is available on the aforementioned YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ3JmlNccVI&t=140s). If you've never been to YouTube, this would be a good time to get your feet wet. It's a really cool place. Seriously.
I'm not joking, it's cool.
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
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/
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
We talk about the fabulous (for homemade cameras) year that was 2020.
Friday Jan 08, 2021
Friday Jan 08, 2021
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.
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
Saturday Nov 07, 2020
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 recording media (film, sensor)
A link to a spreadsheet with the formula in it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yQ3dsD0Rs-HflRcnPYHSmK0soLXtykGAPl8pdZcrBpM/edit?usp=sharing
Special thanks to Erik Mathy (https://www.instagram.com/erikhmathy/ @erikmathy).
We first heard about this formula on an episode of the Large Format Photography Podcast (https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/)
We also talk about a modified Adolescent Crown Graphic Nick's working on.
Ethan mostly tells Graham his formula is wrong.
Graham mostly tells Ethan he names his products after rodents and wonders when the Cameradactyl Chipmonk is coming out.
Graham offers to give away a bunch of darkroom equipment to someone in Northeastern Florida (Jacksonville to Ocala, Daytona to Gainesville). Email Graham@homemadecamera.com if you are interested.
Warning, Graham swears at the very end. If this had been edited by Simon of the LFPP and Classic Lenses, there would have been a gap where you guessed what Graham said but because Graham edited the show, you hear a bunch of F-words in a row.
Finally, we may be taking the month of November off from recording. Don't worry, we'll be back by the Winter Solstice when things are darkest.
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
In this episode the boys talk about interesting camera components that they might want to build cameras around.
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
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
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
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
You can check out some of Graham's work at: graflexparts.com facebook.com/graflexparts instagram.com/graflex_parts https://www.facebook.com/groups/grafl... https://www.facebook.com/groups/30285... graflexarts@gmail.com