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A Poor Man’s (or Woman’s) Leica
Yashica 35 GSN During the 1960-1970′s there was a company that made some pretty amazing cameras. One of which was considered by some as – “A poor man’s (or woman’s) Leica”. Yashica began making...
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I knew Oscar Bailey – He was my teacher
Oscar Bailey with his Cirkuit Camera Penland NC 1980 Oscar Bailey was one of many great teachers on my road to imaging. He happened to be the first photography professor I had when I was first...
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A Box and a Lens – A look at an amazing little box camera
Box-Tengor – John Neel Most box cameras were built long before I was born. My parents may have used one and my grandparents most certainly did. They were the consumer cameras of their day. Besides...
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The American Camera – Bolsey
Bolsey B – © John Neel There was a time when America made some of the worlds best cameras and lenses. Believe it or not, many of the most interesting cameras ever produced were made in the good old...
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FujiFilm X-A1 w/ an auxiliary viewfinder
FujiFilm X-A1 FujiFilm A-X1 As a photographer, I do what I have to do to get the images I need. That includes the possibility of altering the camera or hacking the lens. In most cases it is a...
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The Real Diana Camera – A Plastic Wonder
Diana 151 with box and lens cap – Original There is a huge difference in functionality and creative play between the original Diana camera and its somewhat bogus modern reproduction called the...
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Argus Lenses Go Sony A7 Camera
“Not a Zeiss,…but still pretty nice…for the price”. This is one of my latest and very inexpensive new camera toys. It is a marriage between one of my old lenses taken from an Argus C3 Brick and...
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Stereo Pinhole Camera
. A stereo image can easily be created with a pinhole camera that is designed with two pinholes. The idea is to make two pinholes instead of just one. Each pinhole needs to be the same size...
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14 years of WPPD submissions – A Gallery of Pinhole
The images here are my personal contributions to the past fourteen years of WPPD. My 2016 WPPD pinhole image – Niagara Falls, NY– © John Neel Over the past fourteen years, I have looked forward...
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Relative Sharpness and Cones of Light
Depth of field is a way to assure a selection of the subjects in an image appears sharp. Depth of field is a cause of aperture function. It has to do with the opening created by the lens iris...
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