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.
E38 In Which The Afghan Box Camera Challenge is Extended
E37 What?
E36 Swinging and Shooting
E35 Large Format
E34 - Lucus Landers
E33 - Heather Oelklaus
E32 Crazy Ideas
E31 Afghan Box Camera
E30 Ethan
E29 The Homunculus
E28 Early Summer
E27 A Ramble
E26 Zine Appeal
E25 Homemade Film
E24 Camera Kit
E23 What We Learned
E22.75 NOT the Last Episode
E22.5 the LAST Episode
E22 Industrial Design
E21 The Adapted
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