The Photographers Gallery - Green Hacks

Green Hacks: DIY lens conversion - Pierro Pozella, PPP Cameras

Learn how to make a DIY lens conversion for your mirrorless camera by salvaging the optics from unrepairable film cameras, with Pierro Pozella from PPP Cameras.

PPP Cameras is an analogue repair company whose main focus is to keep film cameras alive. They do this by using as many sustainable materials as possible - by innovating spare parts, they reduce the amount of cameras going to waste, and prevent them from becoming redundant objects. 

PPP Cameras also provide customisation services such as lens conversions; saving optics from uneconomical repairs and recycling them to develop something new.

PPP Cameras is an analogue repair company whose main focus is to keep film cameras alive. They do this by using as many sustainable materials as possible - by innovating spare parts, they reduce the amount of cameras going to waste, and prevent them from becoming redundant objects.

PPP Cameras also provide customisation services such as lens conversions; saving optics from uneconomical repairs and recycling them to develop something new.

Green Hacks is a series of artist-made how-to videos unpacking practical tips to educate, inform and inspire their community. From non-toxic analogue development techniques, to DIY lens upcycling, to lengthening camera lifespans through alternative software, each short video offers a creative but concrete step, demonstrating how to produce/show/think about and make art in more sustainable ways. Small actions with significant impacts.

Commissioned and released by The Photographers’ Gallery in collaboration with Tabakalera, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain.