5 October, 2026
How I Organize My Film Negatives, Scans and Darkroom Prints
“It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe,” wrote science-historian James Gleick. When it comes to organizing film photos, en...
4 October, 2026
Mapping the New Eastman Kodak Film Range
At the end of August there was suddenly a LOT of new Kodak film packaging flying around Europe! Some of it had the same name as the films we know and love – Gold, UltraMax...
3 October, 2026
What Happens After the Cyanotype? Following Washwater Through The Ecological Wetroom™
I started The Ecological Wetroom™ with a practical question: if cyanotype washing moves chemistry from the print into water, what happens if I refuse to let that water di...
18 September, 2026
Zeiss 342 Bébé – Resurrecting a 1930 Ikon
I don’t ‘collect’ old cameras, it is the process of using an old machine for the purpose it was made that I enjoy. My family may disagree with the first part of this statement. ...
13 September, 2026
Incapacitated by Capacitors – Fixing the Centon DF-300, Minolta X-300, et al
The ‘300’ series of cameras, all derived from the classic Minolta X-300, are approaching forty years of age. It would be surprising if the cameras didn’t have ...
4 September, 2026
Just a sec
I often see older men (and they are always men – “camera ojisan” in Japan) sporting the latest digital equipment, following in the steps of Shinzo Maeda, the camera standing on ...
1 September, 2026
How I Meter Slide Film
Slide film is beautiful! Online though, it feels like there’s a lot of trepidation regarding metering for slide film. The common advice I’ve heard is to bracket your...
31 August, 2026
Wider Horizons – Making Panoramic Images
When photographers talk about “going wide”, the typical assumption is that they are referring to using lenses with shorter focal lengths. Yet many pictures that “feel” wide– suc...
