I fell in love, instantly, the first time I saw an Aerochrome image, all those otherworldly colours! But the skin tones aren’t impacted? Absolute film magic! For me, it was the ...
30 July, 2025
Viltrox Air 15mm f/1.7 – a new lens for APS-C
I recently had the opportunity to test a new prime APS-C lens from Viltrox; the 15mm 1.7 Air in a Nikon Z mount. In full frame terms, that means you have something between a 20...
30 July, 2025
Voigtlander 28mm f2.8 Aspherical SL II-S Color-Skopar – Golden egg cups, surrealism and a new lens for an old film camera
This is a story about how I ended up knee deep in sea water on the coast of Sydney, Australia, trying to focus on a golden egg cup. It is a story about an experience with a new ...
28 July, 2025
SmartConvert – Inverting negatives smartly
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...
28 July, 2025
Zeiss Ikon S 310 – The Last Contessa – Urban shooting in Norwich London and Cambridge in Black and White
I bought myself this Zeiss Ikon S 310 recently and have been hooked on it, it’s a little gem. I bought it on a knee jerk; after using my Balda CA 35 and with Hamish kindly...
I’ve posted a number of pieces on this site, all but one featuring images from my Leica M3 with a Zeiss 50 mm F2 lens. That set up has been my primary one for film photography....
After retiring two years ago from the Art department of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where I managed the photography facilities for over forty years, I have been...
22 July, 2025
Kodachrome 25 K14 – My first and last ever 2 rolls and remembering the ContaxG Pages site
In memory of my friend and mentor Lincoln Michaud born February 12th 1940 in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, p[assed away on March 29th 2015 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Kodachrome They...
