Author Archives: Jouni Rinne

Customizing Olympus PEN (part 1): VF-2 viewfinder

Posted on 14/01/2014 by Jouni Rinne

No camera is perfect: neither the old film cameras nor the modern digital variety, not even the otherwise excellent Olympus Micro Four Thirds range. I’ve had an Olympus PEN E-PL3 as my main digital camera for over a year, and … Continue reading →

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Miranda S

Posted on 25/12/2013 by Jouni Rinne

I’m happy to introduce the latest addition to my, apparently, ever growing Miranda collection: a Miranda S from the year 1959, serial number 592277. The ‘S’ was an economy version of Miranda’s first camera, the ‘T’, having only the faster … Continue reading →

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Eyepiece correction lens

Posted on 21/12/2013 by Jouni Rinne

I had a correction lens made specificially for the Miranda rubber eyepiece. It wasn’t actually cheap, but now I can ditch the damn glasses while photographing… “Four-eyes” and cameras, old or new, just don’t mix!

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Film / slide scanner

Posted on 07/12/2013 by Jouni Rinne

Now that I am a more or less happy Plustek OpticFilm 8100 film / slide scanner owner, I don’t have any excuses like “I don’t have anything to do!” during the winter: I need to digitize my dad’s 30+ years … Continue reading →

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Developing the first black & white film

Posted on 04/12/2013 by Jouni Rinne

Last Monday I spent an interesting evening in the Tampere Camera Club‘s (Tampereen Kameraseura) film laboratory situated within the basement of the “Metso” library. In there I developed, for the first time without any outside help, a black and white … Continue reading →

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