Halide Notes

Small notes on film cameras, old lenses and long walks.

Cleaning a stiff focus ring

Old helicoid grease turns to glue after forty years. Naphtha, patience and a fresh light grease bring most of them back.

Two weeks with a fixed 35mm

Fewer decisions, more pictures. The constraint is the feature.

Developing at home

A changing bag, two tanks and a thermometer are enough to start.