12 September, 2024
The Boat Graveyard
The Gloucester and Sharpness ship canal – at one time the broadest and deepest in the world – connects the docks on the River Severn to the city of Gloucester abou...
Geoff Chaplin's Posts
17 August, 2024
The beginning of a TLR Challenge
Like many other photographers it seems, I have problems with TLRs. It’s not that the format is new – I used to use a Hasselblad regularly for 5 years or so –...
23 July, 2024
Agfa Copex Rapid – Development Tests
The EU seems to produce a rich array of unusual (“speciality”) films – from Adox, Rollei, Spur and others (many of which are rebranded Agfa-Gaevert films). ...
19 July, 2024
Rodinal Tests – Temperature, Grain and Contrast
Rodinal is a high acutance (sharpness) developer. High acutance means grain as well as the image is more clearly defined. So if I develop at different temperatures either the gr...
16 July, 2024
5 Frames of Sunsets in Black and White
Aren’t sunsets about colour? Black and white is pattern and texture of course but more than that, for me at least, it captures the soul or atmosphere of the scene. I find...
I decided to expose RPX 25 (two years past its use by date) at 100asa unfiltered. Why? Well (a) I am after all British, and that’s the sort of stupid thing we do sometime...
17 June, 2024
Adox CHS 100 II – First Impressions
Adox CHS 100 II is an orthopanchromatic film on a PET base. Orthopanchromatic? What is that? In brief, somewhere between ortho and pan, but the long and better explanation is as...
31 May, 2024
Seeing in Black and White
I was photographing in colour for over 50 years. Occasionally I’d put a B&W film in the camera but I was still photographing in colour, there just happened to be B&am...