I have a knack for companies and manufacturers that have made incredible products and advanced science, but have gone under as a result of mergers, market failure or plain capitalism. One of those ...
A year or so ago, I was gifted a Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 520. It was one of the most configurations, having a Compur shutter paired with the brilliant Tessar 70 mm f/3.5 lens. It was in surprisingly good...
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One of the reasons I built this site is to scream into the void a bit about things I like. I want to use this site not only as a sort of archive for the things I do, make, repair and produce, but a...
Last year I bought a Sony Mavica FD91 camera, which is a weird old digital camera that stores its six images on a floppy drive. However, the person who sent it did not package it properly and DHL a...
A while ago I found a Petri TTL in a thrift store. It was slightly dysfunctional, but I decided to take the gamble and buy it. If any, it would be a good camera to practice my repair skills on. The...
The 6th of October 2024 was a great day. I took my Game Boy Camera and went out to take some pictures, that I am now able to transfer to my phone or PC. All photos were edited using the webtool of ...
A year or so ago I bought a Game Boy Camera - only because I did not have one yet. It is an accessory for the Game Boy (DMG) and the Game Boy Color (GBC). Launched in 1998, it was one of the first ...
Some month ago, me and my father were asked to go and fetch a lot of camera accessories around Apeldoorn for a neighbour who, at that time, was located at the other side of the globe. Somewhat begr...
I bought a Sony Mavica MVC-FD85 a while back. It is an analog still camera, with the storage medium being a floppy disk. The intended goal was to have a universal medium which could easily be trans...