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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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Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
This is an Audio episode that you can watch as a full video episode on youtube here:
Freeman Lin of instagram @watchmemake fame talks to the guys about his camera mods turning 35mm SLR's into panoramic viewfinder cameras.
You can find some of Freemans work at www.trastic.com.
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
In this Episode of the Homemade Camera Podcast, the guys talk to Sam Trachsel of Ars-Imago about his homemade 16x20 camera that he has been using to shoot direct color positives.
WATCH THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuVKpjJ1QSI&t=2055s
The Homemade Camera Podcast: https://www.homemadecamera.com
The Homemade Camera Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2282531432013144/
This is Sam Trachsel's blog post about the camera on Ars-Imago's blog:
https://www.blog.ars-imago.com/post/shooting-with-big-tuna
Sam's Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/trachselsam
Joe Van Cleave's videos on the process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLoxxwzlAk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry6ycSgT8g8
CAMERADACTYL's video about the process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkcIk8M4KVc
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
In this episode the guys talk to John Aldred of DIYPhotography.net and youtube fame. John is one of those analog (and not so analog) industry figures that Ethan fealt like he should get to know, but he never expected the breadth and depth of Johns knowledge and stories about venomous snakes. (Hint: there's a great one after the end music).
John writes about trends, products and techniques in the photo and video industry and about technology in general, and is a rare tech writer who will cover smaller and more niche products. It's a little bit of a different perspective than our usual camera-building guests, which was a good thing. John has a deep love of tinkering and it really shows.
Check out Johns writing on www.DIYPhotography.net
and check out his youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/johnaldred
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
In this episode Nick shows Graham and Ethan the camera he has built from a baby speed graphic.
This is our first episode experimenting with recording video. The video is low quality webcam footage and screen shares, but we thought it might be a good starting point to show what we are talking to eachother about. If you are listening on a computer, we recommend watching the episode on Youtube instead.
This is the link:
https://youtu.be/cIM8xVzxkKk
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
It's time for you to submit your camera builds for the Homemade Camera Zine 2020!
We are looking for all types of builds, from Matchbox Pinholes to Ultra-Large-Format view cameras and everything in between. Send your entries to:
In the body of the email include the following:
- Pictures of the camera
- Pictures taken by the camera
- Pictures of the build (if you took any)
- Your name
- Your social media contacts
- A description of the build
- A description of what it's like to shoot the camera
- An assessment of what you might change on a future version of the camera
- Anything else you think is important about this build
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
This episode features a conversation with Graham Hufton, otherwise known as Chicken Thumbs (https://www.instagram.com/chickenthumbs/) a Canadian living in Manhattan. We learn about his career in Industrial Design, including office furniture, museum exhibits, deodorant, and other things you will find in Target.
We talk about “gendered” design and how different visual cues are as much a result of the manufacturing process as with the target demographic.
Graham mentions the book Master Shipwright’s Secrets: https://www.amazon.com/Warship-Tyger-shipwrights-secrets-Restoration/dp/1472838386
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
In this episode, Graham, Nick and Ethan catch up on some of their projects. They talk about the new Raspberry Pi Camera and digital camera possibilities; Nicks progress on his 8x10; his experience with the Universal Speed camera, and with the Kracken.
The gang talks about the next issue of the Homemade Camera Zine, and ways to make photographic images without a camera
Gunpowder prints/hybrid gunpowder prints: http://christophercolville.com/
Camera Lucida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugv0XhUd2l4
Dave Allen: https://davidsallen.com/portfolio-items/pretty-photos/
Flaver D Miro-2C Camera : https://www.flickr.com/photos/17202358@N00/49898532846/
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
For this episode, we welcome Nicole Small to discuss her homemade cameras, her love of pinhole photography and how she found herself as a (self) portrait artist.
You can find her work in these locations and follow along with the discussions:
https://www.nicolesmall.com/tag/art/
https://www.instagram.com/nicolesmall_oneonone/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXbIGe6luBekTIvnKBhYIow/videos
She mentions friend Mark Boucier and how he got her into photography.
The use of micro drill bits vs. pins for drilling pinholes. Here's a link to some: (https://smile.amazon.com/XLX-Circuit-Carbide-Tungsten-Jobber/dp/B01LWP84P7/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=micro+drill+bit+set+.10&qid=1588605831&sr=8-2)
Nicole works quite a bit with Cyanotype and the variant Cyanotype Rex developed by Terry King:
http://www.f295.org/main/archive/index.php/t-898.html
https://slykasstuff.tumblr.com/post/155772150296/comparing-different-cyanotype-techniques
http://www.viewcamera.com/pdf/2005/king.pdf
Also, direct positive cyanotypes:
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/positive-cyanotypes-in-camera.59879/
Direct positive black and white processing links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XybUMhh2tsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLoxxwzlAk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZNyqqfPBbs
Color Direct Positive Filter Set:
https://www.freestylephoto.biz/31636-Arista-RA-4-Color-Filters-6x6-in.-21-Pack
Nicole talks about one of her biggest influencers, Randy Mayer a large-format photography teacher she bumped into at a camera store who became an influence in her technical photographic life and pushed her into doing a solo exhibit.
Contacts:
OneOnOneArts on Facebook
https://www.instagram.com/nicolesmall_oneonone/?hl=en
https://nicolesmalljournalentries.wordpress.com/camera-builds/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXbIGe6luBekTIvnKBhYIow/videos
https://soundtrapstudios.com/Sound_trap_studios/Home.html (Robbie Cribbs)
Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 2020
We start off the show with a discussion on how to make an enlarger from photographic stuff most photographers have around the house.
Then, there's a talk about a pinhole project Graham is putting together which Nick insists should be called the Kraken 612 Triclops Predator. We also talk about Nicole Small (https://www.instagram.com/nicolesmall_oneonone/) ahead of the next episode when she will be our guest for the whole show.
Chris Peregoy's Pinhole Blender site is mentioned (http://www.pinholeblender.com/) along with the Mr. Pinhole pinhole calculator site (https://www.mrpinhole.com/calcpinh.php)
Also talked about is JOE VAN CLEAVE’s Advent Camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg3utTjG2ZE&t=477s
Nick tries to steal Graham's Canomorpic name for his own project, (though he does write it Can-O-Morphic so it may get past the Trademark police), a whole-roll 360 degree camera.
We talk about Perry Ge's work adapting various lenses to his Pentax 6X7 and a special pimp-out accessory for his X-Pan.
Lastly, one of the ugliest cars ever, the Local Motors Rally Fighter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_Fighter makes a cameo.
Thanks Robbie! http://soundtrapstudios.com/Sound_trap_studios/Home.html
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
We start out with a variation on the Desert Island Camera question, a Quarantine Island camera and morph that into talking about cameras we can build with junk you have hanging around the house. Hint: Kites, Rockets, Coconuts, Plasti-Dip and Hardie Board.
Then, we use the Google Random Number Generator to give away several sets of Holga Masks and an early Kraken 612 development model.
Through the end of April you can get 15% off a Kraken 612 using the code RELEASETHEKRAKEN15 at my Etsy Store.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/FrozenPhotonCameraCo
You can see all about the Kraken 612 at http://frozenphoton.com/
We move on to a discussion about what we've been doing in life and in cameras:
Nick: Hiding out at home and finishing up some regular work. Finding half-done projects. 8X10 camera build.
Ethan: Crowd-sourced Ventilators. Formed (joined?) small International group of 8-12 people to work on non-digital ventilators for people who may need lower-tech ventilators that get around the need for expensive and possibly hard to source digital components. After starting with valves. In one week produced 2 working prototype, ready for testing. This ventilator uses mechanical/pneumatic controllers instead of digital ones. The key is a 4-way diverter valve, allowing a degree of analog logic control of the airflow. Working on patent language (not for patent, but for clarity of communicating the concepts and design). Online source of projects. Ethan’s team, openventilator.io . . . , is now ranked 5 and may go to number one by the time you hear this.
http://openventilator.io/en_US/
Graham: LIFE: Teaching online. Different. No commute time to get my head ready. Routine is good. Most students seem to be taking to the format. Starting up a DND game.
Cameras: To get my mojo back, I took out a Bronica EC-TL for the first time in a long time. The Kraken is on sale. Changed the license. Shot my 4 X 10 but haven’t developed yet.
Nick talks about long sticks in the time before drones.
Thanks Robbie! https://soundtrapstudios.com/Sound_trap_studios/Home.html