As with a lot of my articles, the reason I’m writing this is to solidify an idea in my head. That idea is that I have become a bit of a snob, that I’ve lost touch with something...
22 August, 2020
My first 3 rolls of home developed film – By Holly Gilman
Otherwise known as “third time’s the charm”.
I have recently decided to plough on with my goal of developing film at home and here is the story of my first 3 rolls.
I have deve...
12 August, 2020
Artefacts of a Laboratory – Adapting an enlarging lens to a Sony DSLR – By Jordi Fradera
This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940 - also published in...
The 1960s and '70s were good times for hobbyists in the USA. Chemicals, electronic parts, and optical supplies were widely available - in some ways more so than they are today. ...
My photographic story’s a classic one, a cliché you might say. It all started when I was just 8 years old on the day my grandmother gave me my first camera, passed down to me fr...
I’ve just started shipping pixl-latr - a product I launched on Kickstarter in June 2018 with an expected delivery date of September the same year. In short, I’m 22 months behind...
In 2018, I decided I would once again use film exclusively in my personal projects. When I started with photography, there was only film, I grew up with a photographer father in...
Before the widespread use of recorded sound, if you were a music aficionado with a favored piece of baroque music you would be lucky if you heard it more than a handful of times...
