willmore

I have very good memories of my childhood when I bought a bulk roll of ORWO 25 from Porter and spent a summer taking some wonderful pictures with my XG-7.

Sadly, the Rpi MIPI CSI interface can't handle anything faster than 1080p30. The sensor in the HQ camera supports up to 4K2Kp60 and 1080p240, but when hooked to the Rpi, it can only support...

I thought a zoom lens as a varifocal lens that was parfocal. Anyone know what the deal is?

Ba! I once put a piece of B&W paper in a camera to see how it would work. Poorly is the short answer. Anti-halation is super important and white backed paper is not it. :) Lessons learned.

Yes, if it really is a Fine Grain Release Positive, then it's virtually grainless. But orthochromatic and high contrast. I probably have some negatives I could scan to demonstrate. Also, it may...

QZSS isn't global, so it shouldn't make the list. It is specific to just the area near Japan, so it might be included in the receiver in the camera given that it's made by a Japanese...

SIL pads aren't any new invention, so Canon's engineers must have known about them and chose not to use them. That makes me wonder if there's a reason that they're a poor choice for that...

I'm trying to remember the two mail order places I used as a kid. There was the place out of Cedar Falls, IA (Porter?) and then there was Creative? They had the Arista house brand of products,...

This reminds me of when I was a kid and I got bulk rolls of Kodak Fine Grain Positive (ASA 5) film and some Kodak Direct Reversal (ASA 0.5). Both were very strange films and weren't meant for...