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7 September, 2025

Camera scanning color negatives – some nerding and search for beauty

By Alexander Seidler

There is something fascinating and also strangely intangible to color negatives. I have been home developing C41 for 10 years and I tried lots of scanners, software and workflow...

26 August, 2025

In Search of Darkness and Light: Black & White Film Stocks, Part 5 – The Conclusion

By Scott Ferguson

This all started as a friendly conversation about looking for a ‘go to’ black & white film choice, partly because I wanted to stock up before the US tariffs kick...

13 August, 2025

In Search of Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 4

By Scott Ferguson

If you are still reading this deep in my informal and unscientific survey of black and white film stocks, I salute your endurance in following what has evolved from a mild curio...

12 August, 2025

BW x CT x (0,1,2,3)

By Geoff Chaplin

Film photographers are smart and thoughtful so you have probably already worked out what the title means, but for those who’ve just joined from planet digital this is a test of ...

9 August, 2025

TLR Challenge: My Conclusions

By Geoff Chaplin

It’s about a year since I set myself a challenge to use a TLR regularly over the year and shoot at least 50 rolls of film. So, while it’s time to reach some conclusions, I must ...

16 July, 2025

A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3

By Scott Ferguson

In Part 1 of this series, I was exploring the different black & white stocks I had in my Lightroom Library, looking at things I had already shot to try to see the impact tha...

26 June, 2025

Re-valuing 3200 speed films @EI1000 with Ilfotec HC

By Simon King

I haven’t had too much reason recently to load anything into my cameras rated higher than 400/500 – and by recently I mean a few years now. My approach to documentat...

25 June, 2025

The 21mm Focal Length (or Thereabouts) for Documentary Photography

By Simon King

Telephoto lenses create such a literal and metaphorical distance between the photographer and their environment. Although one of my favourite lenses to work with is a 90mm, I re...

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Thomas WOLSTENHOLME on Kodak Duaflex – Toronto-made – Fun or Fad?
About one year ago I had a similar experience when a neighbour gave me a pre-war German Kodak Nagel folding…
Miky on Sony Mavica Floppy Disk Camera and the Shitty Camera Challenge
Thank you for your reply Bill. I bit the apple and got myself an FD97. In the coming weeks I'll…
Safiyyah on Pakistan With the Olympus E1 and E3 – Part 2 Overlanding the Karakoram and Hindu Kush by 4×4
So many incredible images of an incredible people and culture! Thanks for sharing!

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