Posts by Author: David Prochnow
How to turn a $10 camera from the dawn of instant photography into a modern 4×5 workhorse
It’s ironic that the first instant camera invented by Polaroid Corporation over 70 years ago could, today, become a 4×5 large format camera powered by…
A Pen e for your thoughts: Get fisheye sight for cheap
What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh! That little joke was probably making the rounds throughout Olympus Corporation during the development of…
Can this $30 Minolta camera rival an iPhone 15 Pro Max?
How could such a sweet, svelte shooter be at the center of a firestorm of hate? So goes the story with the Minolta MND20 camera…
Got Nikon 1 lenses? This $13 gizmo gives you more lenses for less
You’ve got to respect Nikon Corporation’s attempts at trying to appease both new, cutting edge buyers and OG Nikon F users. Each time they release…
Clever / Silly Leica X trick
Nestled deep inside the instruction manual for the Leica X1 digital compact camera is a short description of image stabilization that gave birth to one…
Amp up your iPhone with this DIY mod squad
Julie, Linc, and Pete (the original Mod Squad characters from the 1960s-70s TV series) have nothing on this color filter triptych mod for your iPhone….
Stick your rear out, but… avoid arrest
In today’s world, you have to be very careful about sticking your rear out. Oh, excuse me. I’m talking about your lens—sticking its rear element…
How to make your photos look like they’re from 1839
Ah, the good old days; they probably weren’t that good for photographers. Inhaling mercury fumes, handling caustic alkali, and fretting about patent payments, those times…
Give yourself a Weegee
Every photographer should study the life work of Arthur Fellig. Better known by his self-appointed nickname, Weegee (see Figure 1), or, more accurately, Weegee the…
Triple play-make monster RAW views of the same subject, at the same time, in the same photo
A quirk in the firmware of the Nikon D40X enables you to bend some very serious rules for making incredibly feature-rich photographs. Granted, this oddity…
