In many years of amateur (at best) photography, I’ve almost entirely used digital since I started with a compact in 2005 or 2006. But recently I've been increasingly keen to try...
Film has always been the standard I measure against on the quality and color of digital imagery. The texture of grain with higher ISO, the colors rendered from the film -- these...
That isn’t really what this article was supposed to be titled. If things had gone differently it would have been “Last of the Kodachrome”.
My life with 35mm photography began ...
10 June, 2022
Grocery Store Development – Part 3: Fixing Film with Pool Chemicals and Fertilizer – By Josh Vickers
Fixer is both cheap and abundant, which is great for those of us that enjoy developing our own negatives. However, in the search for local alternatives for film development, it ...
6 June, 2022
Hiking the Uncanny Valley – By Don Goodman-Wilson
When creating the above image, I sought a very specific aesthetic, one informed by years of enjoying video games. Indeed, friends have told me they thought this image was a high...
3 June, 2022
Grocery Store Development – Part 2: Developing with Caffenol (and Salt) – By Josh Vickers
After my success with reversal processing, I wanted to try my hand at making a homemade developer. Caffenol was the obvious next step, and I, being a temperamental machine fuele...
Actually, it might as well have been Minoltas. My best friends older brother had a Minolta X-700 that instilled a great deal of envy in me. The year was 1982 and I was at the ti...
30 May, 2022
How Many Cameras to Take on Holiday? – by Sroyon
Well, is this a first-world problem or what! Not only are we talking about going on vacation, but also about the "problem" of choosing between multiple cameras for said vacation...
