DIY Project Turns a Panasonic GF3 and Soviet Fed 5 Into a Digital Rangefinder
Photographer and creator Mr. 50mm designed a DIY digital rangefinder, which only requires about $200-$250 worth of parts.
from PetaPixel
A Wet Plate Portrait of Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg exploded into the public consciousness last month after the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist gave an impassioned and scathing speech to world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. Earlier this month, wet plate photographer Shane Balkowitsch got 20 minutes with Thunberg at Standing Rock and used the time to make 2 wet plate portraits of her. Balkowitsch had been at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas to shoot portraits of Native Americans for his project “ Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective .” “I heard that Greta was going to Standing Rock,” Balkowitsch tells PetaPixel. “I reached out to my friends down there and wanted to see if she could come to my studio. Her schedule was too tight for a trip to Bismarck, so I offered to take my portable darkroom and chemicals and gear to Standing Rock, [saying] if “I can get 15 minutes, we could immortalize Greta in the historic photographic process of silver on gla...
Awesome DIY project! It’s always inspiring to see creative ways photographers bring new life to older cameras and lenses. Compact setups like the Panasonic GF3 can still produce amazing results with the right editing workflow. Professional retouching services such as Phephotos are also a great way to enhance real estate and photography images efficiently. Thanks for sharing this unique build!
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