The Whole Roll Archives

23 January, 2024

Bronica ETRSi and 135W – First Whole Roll Experiences

By Roger

I have recently been experimenting with film again and, using a normal 35mm camera, and decided that I wanted to try something with panoramic format. There is an obvious choice,...

22 December, 2023

The Whole Roll – Weekend in Northern Quebec

By Rachael

This roll of film was taken in northern Quebec, during a weekend road trip. I had wanted to see Tadoussac for a number of years but had not found time until this summer. I drove...

1 November, 2023

The Whole Roll – 8 frames through a Box Brownie and a mug of strong Coffee.

By Ndh

It was early on in the morning so there was still some mist hanging over the fields and canal when I jumped from my boat onto the towpath and meandered my way to Tesco in town. ...

13 July, 2023

A Whole Month/Whole Roll – The Olympus 35RC and Ilford HP5+

By Anders Lewis

There’s something magical about the first roll developed in a new camera. The cathartic release of weeks (in this case, a month) of anxiety is almost unmatched (I don...

23 May, 2023

A Whole Roll of Ferrania P30 Black and White film. If it was an automobile…

By Ron Duda

This, my first roll of Ferrania P30, black and white negative film, yielded thirty seven exposures. You’ll see here only thirty five. I store my negatives in mylar sleeves - se...

9 April, 2023

The Whole Roll – 12 Exposures with 30 year Expired Kodak Ektar 100

By Simon King

June 2022 I was documenting the ceremony and spectacle of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II. Earlier, while allocating my kit, I had found a roll of Ektar...

5 February, 2023

Leica Mini Zoom – A Whole (Test) Roll with Kodak Gold 200

By Dylan Thissen

I got the camera bug from my parents. Neither of them are professional photographers but both enjoy photography and regularly took me to galleries as a kid. I think I took photo...

22 January, 2023

The Whole Roll – Nikon FE2 and Rollei S400 – By Felix I Flores Rodriguez

By Felix Flores Rodriguez

The art of black and white photography is as old as the art itself. Color photography sometimes masks the true meaning of an image yet, on certain occasions, will distract or ev...

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Jeffery Luhn on Baby Brownie – A review of a quaint box camera
Charlotte, Loved the text and pix. Surprising quality! Those old box cameras often had a single element miniscus lens and…
Dave Powell on The Jumping Bird (A One-Shot Story) – By Dave Powell
Here's a thought, my friend: The universe is proven to run on a quantum foundation based on probabilities. So everything…
Dave Powell on “Understanding Life Backwards” in Two Old Photographs – By Dave Powell
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