During the long pandemic quarantine, I bought a laser cutter the size of a small Volkswagen to cut ventilator prototype parts, Brooklyn Film Camera Polaroid scan trays, and a number of other photographic equipment parts. I bought the largest cutter that I could fit in my shop, because I had been dreaming of the 20×24 […]
Author Archives: Ethan Moses
My name is Ethan, I buy and sell photographic, scientific, and industrial equipment professionally. I have taken pictures as a hobby for much more than half my life. I love to build things, cameras in particular, and industrial electronics. I am amazed and humbled by the growing community of great photographers doing great work on the internet.
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A year in the life of a backyard cameramonger during a global pandemic: Building fast, automated devices for scanning film and mounted slides – the Mongoose and the BoopBoop Trigger
In this article I am going to talk about the journey that led me to build the Mongoose automated negative carrier, and my newest device, the BoopBoop Trigger for digitizing mounted slides. This won’t be so much a technical review or description as much as a meandering memoir for posterity about what I did with […]
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The Homemade Camera Podcast’s “Unconventional Camera Convention” is now on YouTube
I have been stuck inside my house for about 5 months now. Quarantine for me, more or less is like the rest of my life. I work alone, in a shop in my backyard, and in some ways I am a bit of a hermit. I have noticed, and really started to miss what little […]
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The CAMERADACTYL Brancopan: a 35mm panoramic camera you can print at home
My name is Ethan, I make cameras at CAMERADACTYL. I 3D print film cameras and ship them all over the world. If you haven’t heard of me before, here are some links to articles I’ve written about some of my previous projects, the CAMERADACTYL HOMONCULUS 69, OG 4×5 and 4×5 Field Camera. Now that we’re […]
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The Homemade Camera Podcast zine
My favorite podcast for some time now has been the Homemade Camera Podcast. It’s really the podcast I like to build cameras to the best, and I really like. To. Build. Cameras.
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A new multi-format camera is born: meet the CAMERADACTYL HOMONCULUS 69
There’s a new camera on the block and it just so happens to be the latest addition to the CAMERADACTYL family. I call it the HOMONCULUS 69 – because it can take photographs up to 6×9 in size.
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How-to: become an excellent photographer
My name is Ethan, I am the stable genius behind Cameradactyl. I recently published a video with some simple tips and tricks, and a few products guaranteed to take your photography to the next level.
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New for 2019: the CAMERADACTYL OG 4×5 hand camera – lightweight large format photography for all
For the last few months, I have been working tirelessly at destroying my anonymity for the purpose of selling cameras.
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How to build a simple Arduino shutter speed tester
I’ve been stuck in my house filling orders for my Kickstarter campaign for the CAMERADACTYL 4×5 Field Camera, mostly just babysitting printers, changing filaments and adjusting extruders every few hours.
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5 Frames… With Kodak Verichrome Pan 100 (EI 100 / 4×5 format / CAMERADACTYL 4×5)
I wrote a whole long blah-blah about this camera I made here.
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The CAMERADACTYL 4X5 field camera… “toying” around with large format photography
I have always built cameras, machines and models for fun.
