Homemade Camera Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Ethan is away making magic in New York City so Nick and Graham go old school with a chatty old-timey podcast. They talk about what they've been doing since the last show, Graham's new Franken Holga 3D Stereo abomination to make pictures no one can figure out, the arrival of Nick's Lomograflok back for Instax Wide, Nick's appearance on Cameraocity (Cocaine and Waffles), and what a sustainable analog future might look like. 

Thanks to Robbie Cribbs of Sound Trap Studios (https://soundtrapstudios.com/Sound_trap_studios/Home.html) for letting us use the music. 

In Episode 75, we talk to David Hancock about his Kickstarter for a set of 4 different pinhole cameras, his YouTube channel, and why bamboo is a great building material. 

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidmhancock/large-format-pinhole-cameras-to-build-at-home

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/hancockDavidM

Fireseller66 (maker of fine pinholes for pinhole cameras): https://www.ebay.com/sch/fireseller66/m.html

 

Just a quick little catch-up on what we have been doing lately. 

Ethan, Nick, and Graham get together to talk about stereo photography, the use of two lenses to create images that appear to be in 3D. 

Graham is enthusiastic. 

Nick is skeptical.

Ethan is pedantic. 

Ian Fleming (https://www.instagram.com/ifleming/ or simply @ifleming) stops by in the latter part of the show to talk about his experiences with the subject. 

You can read Ethan's Wiki article about Ren Ng (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Ng). However, Ethan's presentation about stereo photography that he presented in front of 1 (one, as in one more than zero, which we should all acknowledge is greater than zero) is not currently available on the interwebs. He thinks he can resurrect it and if he can, we all think he should put it on the Homemade Camera YouTube. 

And, speaking of, this episode is available on the aforementioned YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ3JmlNccVI&t=140s). If you've never been to YouTube, this would be a good time to get your feet wet. It's a really cool place. Seriously. 

I'm not joking, it's cool. 

 

We talk with Matt Bechberger of Reveni Labs about his new spot meter. 

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattbechberger/reveni-labs-spot-meter-tiny-spot-meter-for-your-film-camera/

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1eqb5lGYvdY

Website: https://www.reveni-labs.com/

 

We talk about the fabulous (for homemade cameras) year that was 2020. 

We experiment a bit with this episode. We livestreamed on a bunch of services and recorded it. Erik Mathy dropped by. Nick laments the paving of the world. Other stuff. 

This week we talk about making your own lenses, why Back Focal Length is meaningless to Ethan, and how to play around with loose achromat lens elements to make your own, homemade lens.

The formula: Formula:

F = (f1 x f2) / (f1 + f2 - d)

BFL = (f2 x (d - f1)) / (d - (f1 + f2))

f1 is the front lens,

f2 is the back lens,

d is the distance between the lenses.

F is the focal length,

BFL is the distance between the back lens and the recording media (film, sensor)

A link to a spreadsheet with the formula in it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yQ3dsD0Rs-HflRcnPYHSmK0soLXtykGAPl8pdZcrBpM/edit?usp=sharing

Special thanks to Erik Mathy (https://www.instagram.com/erikhmathy/ @erikmathy).

We first heard about this formula on an episode of the Large Format Photography Podcast (https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/)

We also talk about a modified Adolescent Crown Graphic Nick's working on.

Ethan mostly tells Graham his formula is wrong.

Graham mostly tells Ethan he names his products after rodents and wonders when the Cameradactyl Chipmonk is coming out.

Graham offers to give away a bunch of darkroom equipment to someone in Northeastern Florida (Jacksonville to Ocala, Daytona to Gainesville). Email Graham@homemadecamera.com if you are interested.

Warning, Graham swears at the very end. If this had been edited by Simon of the LFPP and Classic Lenses, there would have been a gap where you guessed what Graham said but because Graham edited the show, you hear a bunch of F-words in a row.

Finally, we may be taking the month of November off from recording. Don't worry, we'll be back by the Winter Solstice when things are darkest.

In this episode we talk to the ingenious Hervé Ellena.   Hervé is an architect, engineer, and photographer who has been building his own cameras since 1995.   www.homemadecamera.com   Herve Ellena- Website: https://cargocollective.com/https://cargocollective.com/stillmovie... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rvlna/

In this episode the boys talk about interesting camera components that they might want to build cameras around.