Photography and Camera Pages

Topics:

• Excerpts from the history of photography in Hungary

An ambitious undertaking, that is more like a skeleton at this stage than anything else. 
Nevertheless, the pages on Hungarian cameras are worth taking a look at. You probably won't find 
similar information elsewhere.
        

• A close look at the Russian FED-2 camera.
• My experiences with the latest version of the Horizon panoramic camera.
• Creating 3D images with a digital camera to view on the computer is fun. I also had a go at it - here is the result.
• Cameras I have collected .... or just simply accumulated?

This section is growing and I'm adding new descriptions and pictures, so return for a visit from time-to-time.

• Néhány filmes fényképezőgép leirása található itt. A digitális "forradalom" eredményeképpen megengedhetőekké váltak azok a csodamasinák, melyekről ifjúkorunkban még álmodni is alig mertünk. Érdemes tehát kihasználni a lehetőséget és eljátszogatni velük amig még lehet hozzájuk filmet kapni.
• My Christmas present for 2009 was none other than... you guessed it; a camera. Do you want to know which one? Click here to find out.
• I also enjoy restoring old cameras. So, I created a section called Tinkerer's Corner which deals with this topic.
• My notes on digital image editing.

Every now and then I sit down at the computer and toy around with some photograph in digital form until I get a headache 
from it all and quit the exercise. Occasionally, I manage to morph the picture into an acceptable form before I reach
my "stuff that!!" point. Part of the problem is, that I don't remember all the program commands and techniques that I 
learned previously, so it is a case of starting from the ground up on most occasions. So, I decided to take notes, 
write down briefly how to do things, hoping that it will help me fast track to where I was once before.
        

• Various defects found in older lenses.

Many of the older lenses I purchase on eBay arrive with some - often undesclosed - fault. A percentage of sellers 
(hopefully the majority) doesn't mean to cheat, they just don't know what to look for, how to recognise a problem. 
I attempt to describe the most common faults, and also make suggestions on what can be done about them.
        

• A close look at some of Canon's manual focus lenses

Those of us, who began photographing before the auto-focus era, are familiar with the FD lenses Canon made 
for such popular SLRs as the FTb, the A-1, or the mighty T-90. Perhaps less well known are the FL lenses 
and the ones that came before them. I will examine how the design changed over the years and what makes them
interesting.