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12 December, 2023

116 Cameras – Shooting Wide Aspect Ratio on a Shoestring

By Marco Andrés

The standard aspect ratio of 35mm film is 1.5:1 (36mm x 24mm). In contrast, wide aspect negatives range up to the ultra wide, and pricey, Hasselblad XPan, with an aspect ratio o...

8 December, 2023

The Cirkut-Holga: A toy slitscan panorama camera

By Chad Hill

Last year, a friend sent me an article about someone using a 100 year old Cirkut camera to make amazing contact-printed panoramic photos on 8 inch wide paper. I hadn’t kn...

5 December, 2023

The 110 Saga Continues – Post Mortem Discoveries

By Tony Warren

I hope these ramblings about my exploration of 110 and sub-miniature are of some interest beyond my keyboard but here’s the next chapter. When my Minolta 460 Tx 110 camer...

5 December, 2023

How to Refill an Ilford Disposable Camera

By Marco Manuzzi

So… you’ve just finished to shoot all around the city (or wherever you’d like) with your brand new BW disposable camera, what’s next? Chances are that yo...

2 December, 2023

Development Tests, Part 2: Adox Rodinal 400:1, Fomapan 100 Classic and TTArtisans 50mm f1.4

By Geoff Chaplin

I rephotographed some earlier images in good sunlight (versus cloudy dull before). The same film stock was shot on a Leica MP with a TTArtisans 50mm f1.4 lens and film developed...

28 November, 2023

Making a No-Sew Belt Pouch from an Old Denim Jacket

By Dave Powell

I’ve always wanted a slim-profile belt pouch for carrying compact cameras. Most manufactured belt pouches have been too small or thickly padded for my cameras and taste. ...

25 November, 2023

Development Tests: Rodinal 200:1 and re-used 400:1

By Geoff Chaplin

How cheaply can you develop a film? Ten cents a roll? One cent??? I usually develop film in Adox Rodinal (now five years old) diluted 100:1 in water at 15-24 degrees and stand d...

2 November, 2023

Hotel Darkroom: Developing Film on the Road

By Azriel Knight

In 2019, I went on a short stint to Edmonton to take some photos of my old stomping grounds: Whyte Avenue. As a teenager in the 1990s, this was where you’d find me. Sippi...

Alexander Seidler on 5 frames with Orwo Wolfen NC500 and a Yashica Electro 35 CC
Although am of the group who never will buy tho wolfen again, i am sure you will make great photos…
Tony Warren on A brief encounter with a (Zeiss) Ideal camera.
I wasn't serious about the Perkeo. I hope we will see what it produced. After the Leica I on the…
Gary Smith on A brief encounter with a (Zeiss) Ideal camera.
I'm almost finished with the roll. We will hopefully finish off the last 1 or 2 remaining and send the…

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