#foldingcamera

After completing the digital Frankencamera I was writing a rough blog post to summarise my experience and went back to look at the first images produced with the Genius 8MP digicam. It wasn’t that long ago but I was blown away by the digital aerochromes and trichromes that the Genius produced. So I thought,  why not see what the digital Frankencamera can do? I mounted the Genius digicam in its…

It’s been months since I posted about the ICA Sirene 135, literally. The first post about this smelly old camera was in June 2024, then I left it outside for a few weeks before putting it into a box with some mothballs. It remained there for the five weeks we were on holiday and by then the smell of mothballs was so overpowering it was kept outside a little longer to ‘freshen up’. Then, in…

I don’t really need another folder, I really don’t, but the ICA Sirene 135 was so cheap that I thought I could take the ground glass from this one and fit it into the back of the Stölma II folding camera so I could use that with the KW Patent Etui. Basically this was a back for the Patent Etui. Of course it was from the Kamerastore’s ‘Not Passed’ category, it has ‘flaws that will affect typical…

A while ago I made myself a Frankencamera from an old 1920s 6×9 folding camera with a 1980s Polaroid back attached. Into this I could fit one piece of Instax Wide film and, after a little messing around, produce a single instant print. Mind you, I always found this process limiting. I couldn’t really travel very far, it was time-consuming to set up and, at the end of the day, most of the…

Following my failure in the search for a rear viewing screen suitable for use with the KW Patent Etui with the Ernemann Heag, it was back to the drawing board. Mind you, it wasn’t long before another folding camera turned up on the Kamerastore website, and this time I thought I might be lucky. The Stölma II folding camera was made in the 1920s and sold by the Swedish importer Stölma. From what I…