The Whole Roll Archives

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...

6 October, 2022

The Whole Roll – Pentax Spotmatic SP1000 and Kodak Colorplus 200- By Royce

By Royce

I always had dreams and ambitions of being a great photographer, like a short bearded heavy metal loving and badass motorcycle hooligan Aussie version of Henri Cartier-Bresson. ...

25 September, 2022

The Whole Roll: Around (the Other) Durham with a Modified Sabre 620 and a Roll of HP5 Plus – By Clifton Dowell

By Clifton Dowell

While the venerable City of Durham nestled in the United Kingdom boasts one of the world’s great cathedrals, its humble North Carolina namesake stands out in terms of tobacco wa...

8 April, 2022

The Whole Roll – Shanghai GP3 220 film in a Yashica Mat124G – By George Griffin

By George G

I recently acquired a Yashica Mat 124g and I put a test roll of Ilford’s HP5+ through it and everything looked good. It was time to go shoot some proper images. I have always be...

24 December, 2021

A Whole Roll of (Mostly Failed) Experiments with a Minolta Autocord TLR – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

There is no such thing as a failed experiment because you can always learn from them. Well that’s what they say on LinkedIn… but I hate failed experiments. Why can&#...

7 May, 2021

24 Frames / Whole Roll of 110 Fujicolor in an Agfamatic Pocket Camera on a Countryside walk – By Rock

By Rock

I haven't submitted anything for a while: I'm six months into a medical condition that largely effects my upper limbs, in particular so-called 'clumsy hands'. This has greatly r...

23 April, 2021

The Whole Roll and Nothing but the Roll – Kodak E100 in Iceland – A Journey into Colour – by Laura Cogan

By Laura Cogan

I have this intention of writing a quick and dirty post about my first (technically not but for the purposes of this let's pretend) journey into colour film. We all know I can ...

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