As I read and learnt more about printing, a mysterious phrase appeared on my radar – split grade (or split filtration) printing. Its advocates claim miraculous benefits – fast a...
20 April, 2020
Cat-and-Mouse with Exposure and Contrast – Darkroom Technique Part 3 – by Sroyon Mukherjee
Part 3 is the most (only?) technical part of my ongoing series about darkroom technique. If you like technical, you’re in for some fun. If you dislike technical, maybe skip the ...
In Part 1 of my ongoing series about darkroom technique, I talked about how to set up a fully-functional darkroom for black-and-white printing – for less than £100, and in a sma...
6 April, 2020
How to Build a Darkroom for £100 or Less – Darkroom Technique Part 1 – by Sroyon Mukherjee
I’ve been shooting film since the late 90s; my father bought me a quirky little National 35 when I was thirteen. But I started darkroom printing just a year and a half ago, in a...
Those of you who follow my ramblings will be aware that I’ve recently been through a little bit of a phase of shooting Pentax SLRs. The thing I’m beginning to love about them is...
25 February, 2020
That time I shot a Noritar 80mm f/2 medium format lens on a Pentax 35mm film camera – By Aivaras
For a long time, I was looking into 6x6 medium format cameras with a really fast standard focal length lens (around 80mm). Such lenses are rare, as far as I know there are two o...
13 February, 2020
How I Shot A Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh
Why make a micro-budget feature film? Well, I had the idea since I was 14 years old. I had a lot of free time at that age, having been kicked out of Secondary School and not bei...
12 February, 2020
A Paxette Pinhole Conversion and a walk in the Countryside – By Rock
In an earlier post I suggested that the only thing left to do with my 1950s rangefinder 35mm was a pinhole conversion project, bearing in mind that most features were dead (invi...
