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6X30 , wine bottle box pinhole diameter and the thickness of rails
I have cut 8.5mm center and 10 cm corner side diameter, oval curved plane 6X30cm pinhole cameras internal two rails from matte plexi which was 3.5mm thick, for internal 120 roll film and its papers carrying and transferring in front of pinhole.

Camera is 6X30. Is plexi thickness enough to carry 120 roll film from upper side and lower side of the film surfa...

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Zenit 12XP + Vivitar 70-210mm or Minolta SR-7 + Rokkor 50mm?
Recently, I came across two cameras at an antique store: a Zenit 12XP with a Vivitar 70-210mm lens and a Minolta SR-7 with a Rokkor 50mm lens. They’re both very inexpensive, around $30 each, which is practically the price of a single roll of 35mm film in my country.


In my mind, my Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 is probably a much better camera than either of these, but af...

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A bit of a different take on repair reports
Hi all,

Somehow related to @Andreas Thaler's recent post on the lack of repair reports, I want to present my own idea. Recently, I started a blog for the majority of my DIY/repair/restor...

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The Guardian: Paris frozen in time in May 1970 in pictures
In March 1970, Paris announced an amateur photography competition C’était Paris en 1970 to create an archive of a city undergoing a proliferation of large-scale urban development projects. A grid system divided the city into 1,755 squares and a photographer was charged with documenting each square during May 1970. Some of the 91,655 photographs taken are

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Re-coating half silver mirrors for viewfinders?
I bought a Zeiss Super Ikonta 531/2 from a bric-a-brac stall at the weekend. I was looking at it for 20 minutes till it came on to rain and the family wanted to get a coffee and pushed me over the line to spend £50 on it. (That's 67.02 of your US dollars).

It's not in "bad" condition but not "good" either.



The lens had a little fungus and haze but I'v...

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