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How to make an Olympus Pen F/FT/FV to Nikon lens adapter

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How to make an Olympus Pen F/FT/FV to Nikon lens adapter by Anonymous Having an Olympus Pen F/FT/FV camera is fun, but there are a limited number of lenses that…
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Salvaging out a camera by Henry Taber

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What do you do with a camera when it is beyond repair? Throw it away? Hardly. You harvest its parts! I bought a Canonet QL17 Glll off of eBay in…
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Modifying Camera to Accommodate Silver Oxide Batteries by Jean Colin

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Battery choice: Mercury battery was choosed by camera manufacturers because they have a very stable voltage, and this allow a very simple electrical circuit (a galvanometer). In adition, they had…
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Mercury Battery By Kar Yan Mak

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Many cameras from the 60s through 80s use mercury batteries. Why? Because the voltage remains stable even if the battery has been partially drained. As you might have noticed, mercury…
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