Nick and Graham start off the show talking about slide film and the forthcoming Kodak Ektachrome along with some Agfachrome that Graham stumbled upon several years ago. They then begin with a description of what the purpose of a Film Transport Mechanism is and why it’s an important part of any camera build.
Graham describes the three major film handling systems in use today (14:39) and then goes on to talk about a bunch of different systems that are either no longer in use or represent only a tiny fraction of cameras in use today. He did forget completely the Disc camera system though you can probably understand why that one slipped his mind.
They talk about Heather Oelklaus (19:21) and her pinhole panel truck Little Miss Sunshine and how she uses an array of paper negatives to produce large-scale pinhole images. You can visit her web page at CameraKarma.com to see a video of her truck and the process she uses for large-scale images.
Graham mentions Corey Canon of The Lensless Podcast and his discussion of building a single-shot 8X10 as a way of focusing the image-making process and eliminating distraction (1:08:00).
Nick talks about his dream film transport system that allows any spacing for any format in a single device. (1:10:45).
Nick reviews two books that he finds are valuable to the homemade camera builder (1:31:30), Adventures with Pinhole and Homemade Cameras, John Evans and Experimental Photography, A Handbook of Techniques, Marco Antonini, Sergio Minniti, Francisco Gomez, and Gabriele Lungarella.
Nick floats the idea of a pinhole bird feeder (1:40:15), sure evidence that this episode has gone way too long.
E76 Old Timey Podcast
E75 David Hancock and His Pinhole cCameras
E74 Joe Van Cleave
E73 Reimagining the Holga
E72 Ethan's Self-Developing Mystery Show
E71 Douwe Krooshof and his Cyanotype Enlarger
E70 Jason Lane and Chromatic Abberation
E69 Jeremiah Jones and his Homemade Cameras
E68 Erik Mathy makes Homemade Lenses
E67 Nicole Small and the Cyanotype Process
E66 What we are working on.
E65 Stereo Photography
E64: Matt Bechberger and his Wondrous Spot Meter
E63 2020 Year in Review
E62 Livestreamed to the world.
E61 Paper Towel Tubes and BFL
E60 Hervé Ellena
E59 Components of Interest
E58 The Mongoose
E57 Graham Burnett of Graflexparts
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