If you’re like me and you love shooting film (or at least you love film cameras), you probably know this feeling: you find an old film camera while strolling through your ...
I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...
Toileum – not a name I had come across before. I was looking on Amazon for a yellow filter, having left mine behind in Europe thinking I had a spare set back in Japan but I was ...
There are many methods to scan and convert film negatives into positives. One common method is to scan into a raw file with a scanner or, more commonly, a digital camera. The pr...
Wherever you’re from, you’ll have probably heard the old adage “variety is the spice of life”. While this is true in many ways, when it comes to photography gear, I’ve always fo...
The Fuji GW690iii was my first camera that had no electronics. It has produced some of my favourite photographs, but fundamentally changed the way I meter scenes for light. Give...
I confess the company history around the Weston meter leaves me a bit confused. There were lots of mergers and buy-outs over time on both sides of the Atlantic. Sangamo and West...
Three years ago, I introduced Datafilm to the 35mmc community—a minimalist iOS app aimed at helping film photographers log exposure settings and shooting notes. The response was...