I’ve lived in my home town Akaa for almost a decade. Some years ago while walking in the neighbourhood, I noticed these two big houses which had their windows boarded shut and seemed totally abandoned. I have always been interested in local history and all things forgotten, so the houses piqued my interest. The houses …
Robot Star II Vollautomat is not a beginner friendly film camera. It is a small camera using 35 mm film and it shoots square format pictures (24 x 24 mm). The viewfinder is not coupled with the lens, this is not a rangefinder. Zone focusing can be difficult at larger apertures. The VF is for …
Juankoski is a quiet little town deep in Finland’s heart. Last month the nearest city Kuopio saw 16,6 hours of daylight (and 703,4 hours of darkness or cloudy weather). Today we had a whole day of sun, meaning 4 hours of bright light. I grabbed my camera and headed out for a photography stroll. I …
Creating your own digital art frame to showcase your work is not at all that hard and is a lot cheaper than commercial alternatives. In this article, I’ll show how I made my own digital art frame from and old IPS LED display and Raspberry Pi 3 and I’ll tell you how much it cost.
A group of vikings set ashore at Laukko manor around noon last Saturday. The vikings were fierce enough, but the people were spared of pillaging and slaughter. The pig was not as fortunate.
Minolta Prod-20’s (with a hyphen and an apostrophe!) is an autofocus retro designed compact camera from Minolta. It was released in 1990 and was targeted to people who wanted pretty looks and automatic function.
The Bauer Scout 35 is a rare little camera that owes a lot to Minox cameras. It looks like the popular Minox 35 ML but is actually somewhat different in design. It is more closely related to Balda CE35.
Mosse turns 10 in September. Mosse has been with us about 7 years now. He is a good boy.
When you combine medium format camera with 135 film, you get panoramas. I recently shot my very first roll with this kind of panorama set up.
About a month ago I posted an entry about my first baby photo shoot. I learned a lot during the first shoot and past week it was time to see how my second shoot would go.