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An image of a typical crystal set from the 1920s
This article looks at how a simple crystal set radio receiver, which was the first proper vintage radio, works.
Standard 8 & Super 8 film
This is a background information article for Vintage Home Movies which covers differences between the various home movie film format standards.
Screen shot showing a film being post processed
A blog post explaining how to go about converting the 8mm films to digital so they can be used on the vintage home movies site.
A typical scene from a Vintage Home Movie
All about Vintage Home Movies. Why it is here and how to get the best from it.
index of camera types
This post is a background information article which lists and describes the different camera types available
A picture of the uncoupled exposure meter of a camera
This is another article in my series about checking the health of vintage cameras in which I'm going to deal with testing an uncoupled exposure meter.
This post is in the series about testing vintage cameras and deals with testing a vintage camera's shutter
takumar 135mmmm f/3.5 M42 front of lens
This post is going to cover how you go about checking a vintage camera's aperture
Pentax Spotmatic SP showing shutter and film speed settings
Some guidance and details of the sort of tests I do to see if my cameras are working correctly.
Ensign Selfix 16-20 - camera in portrait mode
Some observations I made when I took some pictures with a vintage folding camera.

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