PhotographyAttic Blog

Reskin a Praktica for £1

18 Apr 2014 • Tips

Yes you can give your old Praktica a new lease of life for just one quid. There’s a growing trend to replace the leather/plastic trims on vintage cameras with fancy new wood…

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PhotographyAttic opens Etsy store

17 Apr 2014 • Events

We’ve just set up a new store on Etsy. If you prefer to buy from that website you now can. We currently only have a small selection of items for sale but…

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Wanderlust Travelwide Lightweight 5×4 camera

17 Apr 2014 • cameras

The Travelwide, due for release Summer 2014, weighs just 275 grams making it lighter than a DSLR and the lightest 5×4 ever made. It has an impact-resistant glass-filled ABS construction with a…

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Olympus Trip 35 guide

15 Apr 2014 • Cameras

The Olympus Trip 35 is a 35mm metal bodied point & shoot compact camera that was produced from 1967 to 1984. In the 70s Olympus created an advertising campaign that featured British…

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How to process scanned colour negatives

10 Apr 2014 • Photography Techniques

In the last article we showed you how to make a custom slide duplicator for 35mm negatives and transparencies. And the first problem you will encounter when you start scanning your colour…

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DIY negative copier for Olympus OM-D

09 Apr 2014 • Photography Techniques

If you’ve moved over to digital from film, chances are you will have a collection of film based photographs – either negatives or transparencies.  If you don’t have a film scanner you…

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Photograph the Blood Moon

08 Apr 2014 • Events

On the 15th of April you’ll be able to photograph the first of four total lunar eclipses. They’re sometimes referred to as blood moons, because of the colour the moon becomes as…

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Photographers utilise 3D printing technology

07 Apr 2014 • Observations

3D printing could be the photographer’s savior. These clever devices print from 3d map files using resin or powder that’s built up in layers to form complex shaped objects. These printers cost…

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Digiscoping – bird photography with spotting scopes

06 Apr 2014 • Buying Guides

Wildlife photographers often wish they owned a longer lens of 500mm or so to taking close ups of birds and other smaller creatures. And often they may  already have such a lens…

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Interesting Camera Concepts 1: Digibinos

05 Apr 2014 • Cameras

In this occasional series we’ll take a look at design concepts that have tried to revolutionize the way we take photos. The first in the series looks at digibinos. A hybrid product…

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