I'm Brian and this is some stuff I've done in my spare time...
A perfect match of art deco + midcentury modern: Kodak Six-16 ~127mm f4.5 lens on Bronica S2A

A perfect match of art deco + midcentury modern: Kodak Six-16 ~127mm f4.5 lens on Bronica S2A

January 19, 2026

photography film Bronica lenses

My first attempt at designing and building a lens from scratch

My first attempt at designing and building a lens from scratch

August 8, 2025

photography film Bronica lenses optics

A metered prism for the Bronica S2 that doesn't suck: Guide to adapt a Kiev 88 TTL (free/opensource cad file, printable template)

A metered prism for the Bronica S2 that doesn't suck: Guide to adapt a Kiev 88 TTL (free/opensource cad file, printable template)

April 1, 2025

photography film Bronica

The little known alternative to the Hasselblad SWC: the Nikkor D 40mm f4 aka the Bronica SWF/F (Super Wide & Fucking Fat)

The little known alternative to the Hasselblad SWC: the Nikkor D 40mm f4 aka the Bronica SWF/F (Super Wide & Fucking Fat)

March 26, 2025

photography film Bronica lenses

Bronica S2 bellows screw replacements and converting a S2 bellows to work with an EC

Bronica S2 bellows screw replacements and converting a S2 bellows to work with an EC

March 21, 2025

photography film Bronica repair

Bronica S2a, sporting a box camera lens with a Martini bottle cap aperture, taking this photo of itself; or how to make a medium format hobo lens for <$10

Bronica S2a, sporting a box camera lens with a Martini bottle cap aperture, taking this photo of itself; or how to make a medium format hobo lens for <$10

February 26, 2025

photography film Bronica lenses

Bronica S2a Telephoto madness: the Komura 500mm f/7 (or with teleconverter, 1 meter f/14!)

Bronica S2a Telephoto madness: the Komura 500mm f/7 (or with teleconverter, 1 meter f/14!)

November 27, 2024

photography film Bronica lenses

My newest SLR: a wolf in sheep's clothing

My newest SLR: a wolf in sheep's clothing

March 18, 2023

photography film

What I like to shoot: executing an idea from /u/john177877 after 4 months of saving boxes

What I like to shoot: executing an idea from /u/john177877 after 4 months of saving boxes

May 18, 2022

photography film

I'm learning to use a flash on my analog camera, so I made an analog flash power computer....

I'm learning to use a flash on my analog camera, so I made an analog flash power computer....

April 13, 2022

photography film

Ardu-knips! For when the cable release is jammed

Ardu-knips! For when the cable release is jammed

January 8, 2022

photography film arduino

Building a darkroom timer

Building a darkroom timer

December 29, 2021

photography film darkroom arduino wood-working

Vintage Computers on Fuji Acros in Macro

Vintage Computers on Fuji Acros in Macro

October 27, 2021

photography film vintage-computing

Drone Flight and Long Exposure Film Photos on Treasure Island

Drone Flight and Long Exposure Film Photos on Treasure Island

August 28, 2021

photography film drone sunset

Rodinal from pain reliever, drain cleaner, and preservative

Rodinal from pain reliever, drain cleaner, and preservative

August 20, 2021

photography film darkroom

Cheap and easy DIY copystand for film scanning

Cheap and easy DIY copystand for film scanning

August 10, 2021

photography film wood-working darkroom

Low-effort camera scanning my first roll of home-developed film

Low-effort camera scanning my first roll of home-developed film

August 2, 2021

photography film darkroom

First time developing film in more than 20 years...

First time developing film in more than 20 years...

July 12, 2021

...and it mostly came out ok.

photography film

Automatic Chopsticks

Automatic Chopsticks

July 6, 2021

arduino robotics

My first big boy camera

My first big boy camera

May 3, 2021

The Olympus AM-100 - Better, in some ways, than I remember....

photography film camera-review

The Camera That Got Me Started

The Camera That Got Me Started

March 27, 2021

Now repaired and fully working!

photography camera-review

Making a Darkroom

Making a Darkroom

March 21, 2021

Setting up my uncle's old equipment...

photography film darkroom wood-working

Review of Moskva 5 Folding Medium Format Rangefinder

Review of Moskva 5 Folding Medium Format Rangefinder

March 20, 2021

photography camera-review

Treasure Island with the Drone

Treasure Island with the Drone

March 6, 2021

photography drone sunset

Mom's Canon Film Camera (EOS Rebel S)

Mom's Canon Film Camera (EOS Rebel S)

February 13, 2021

photography camera-review

Healdsburg in the fall

Healdsburg in the fall

November 23, 2020

Flying drones with Ben

drone photography film

First Time Taking Pictures on Film in 2 Decades

First Time Taking Pictures on Film in 2 Decades

October 15, 2020

and I think it turned out ok

photography film

How to make mead

How to make mead

September 12, 2020

Step by step

mead brewing

SF Mightnight at Noon

SF Mightnight at Noon

September 9, 2020

Smoke from the wildfires obscures daylight

photography

Mead Experiments

Mead Experiments

September 6, 2020

How hard could it be?

mead acerglyn brewing

Wildfire Sunset

Wildfire Sunset

August 19, 2020

Sunset on the first night of the fires, from Treasure Island

drone sunset photography

Wood carving a child's toy

Wood carving a child's toy

July 19, 2020

wood-working

Photos from the Pentax Q

Photos from the Pentax Q

April 1, 2020

photography pentax-q

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