Visualise entering a space lit by artificial light, where the outlining of day and night blurs, and everything you see is human-made. It is an environment where the architecture...
15 June, 2024
One Photographer and Two Cameras for Spares & Repairs
My last article, Two Photographers, One Camera, and the Crushing Disappointment of Film, attracted a fair amount of comments—encouraging and not-so-encouraging. The results from...
13 June, 2024
Grain, Glorious Grain! – T-Max 3200 pushed to 6400
Ever since I started photography, when digital was not even a dream, I always love the effect of film grain. It always felt as if it was made by an artist, albeit a chemical one...
Having been given a LOC pass for the European Athletics Championships currently taking place in Rome, I was able to practice unusual compositions in sports photography. Usually,...
10 June, 2024
5 frames with a Nikon FM2 & Kentmere 400 pushed to 3200
I am definitively a newcomer when it comes to film photography. Apart from a few rolls taken with point-and-shoot cameras as a child, I was shooting only digital until I picked ...
There seems to be a lot of love for the Olympus XA (and its sequels) on this site. I’m not here to add to that. Sure, it’s a fine camera with a lens that is very sh...
7 June, 2024
5 Unintended frames with Agfa APX100 (and an OM4-Ti)
The sun was shining and my wife and I went out for a walk we had long intended to do, round the perimeter of a local Common. Nothing dramatic, but it was a walk we had not done ...
After the first test of my Rolleicord Vb with Ilford HP5, I wanted to try a color film, and my choice fell on Kodak Portra 400, a film considered a milestone by many. The cloudy...
