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Half-Frame Photo Gallery

There’s a brand new 35 mm half-frame camera called The Alfie, and I’d like to be part of their beta test for the camera, so here’s a gallery of photos I’ve taken using a half-frame camera.

The following gallery of photos were taken using a “half-frame” camera, which shoots standard 35 mm film, but it shoots photos which are half as wide as a standard 35 mm camera.

Author’s selfie with Olympus PEN-F half-frame camera

Half-frame images are half as wide as a traditional photo and that means half-frame cameras can record TWICE as many photos on a roll!

The cost-saving benefits alone make half-frame a good choice for any photographer, but I also find that the smaller image size helps to highlight and enhance the natural grain of a film photo.

Enjoy this gallery of half-frame images which document some of the best places on Earth’s Northern Hemisphere.

Half Frame Photos – Color Reversal Film – Beach Town, USA

Half Frame Photos – Cross-Process Film – Vienna, Austria

Half Frame Photos – Black and White Film – Route 66, USA

Half Frame Photos – Color Reversal Film – San Diego, California

Half Frame Photos – Color Reversal Film – Diptych and Triptychs

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Best Thin And Crispy Pizza Recipe

This is my go-to pizza recipe for thin crust pizzas.

This thin crust pizza recipe is based on the 1970’s “thin and crispy” from Pizza Hut. 

Try swapping up to half of the flour with a non-wheat flour, like like quinoa, or oat, or hemp.

You can pre-blend all the ingredients (minus the water) and freeze in a jar for many months.

You can parbake the thin crust pizza, and then store that parbaked crust in the freezer for topping later.

Top the finished pizza with all your favorite everything. 😀

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“Camera” is Latin for “Room”

“Camera” is Latin for “Chamber”, or “Room”.

“Aperture” is Latin for “Opening”.

To make a room-sized camera, you’ll need a room with an opening that can let light in.

An 11-foot by 9-foot room will be the interior of our camera.

A 70-inch by 25-inch window is the aperture that controls how much light enters the room.

By darkening the room and placing various-sized holes over the window, we can begin to see an image of the outside world on the interior walls of the room.

The effect is similar that of a photographic camera… but this camera is large enough to also house the photographer within it.

Cycling through various window aperture sizes  (click or tap image to see comparison)

If we replace the circular window aperture with an elongated slit, we get different effects, as shown below.

Replacing the circular window aperture with a vertical slit  (click or tap image to see comparison)

To try this experiment yourself, you’ll need three things:

  • A room that can be darkened
  • A window
  • Cardboard with a hole in it, to serve as the aperture

Get the room as dark as possible, and then cover the window with the cardboard aperture.

Small cardboard aperture = dimmer but sharper image.

Large cardboard aperture = brighter but fuzzier image.

(click or tap image to see comparison)

To see the whole camera-obscrura-making process, including the totally-unnecessary math equations, here’s a video with basically the same content you can view in these gif images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7YL6ZMf6f0
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How To Fit A GIANT Pizza Box Into A Small Refrigerator

There are more than 20 pizza “giant pizza” restaurants in San Diego.

“Giant” pizzas are typically 28″ in diameter.

“Giant” pizza boxes are usually 30″ squares, which just barely fit through a standard-size 32″ door frame.

Unless you have a “giant” refrigerator, you may be unable to fit a “giant” pizza box into your fridge.

Solution? Scissors!

Fitting a Giant Pizza into a Tiny Fridge
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How To Fit A Large Pizza Box Into A Small Refrigerator

Sometimes I bring home pizza, only to discover that the pizza box is too large to fit in my refrigerator.

One solution is to cut the large pizza box so that it becomes two small pizza boxes.

This technique is suitable for fitting 28” pizza boxes into a standard-size refrigerator.

This technique works for fitting pizza boxes into hotel mini-fridge units.