A personal approach to monochrome image creation from film
I gave a talk on this subject at The Photography Show 2026 at the NEC and thought readers of 35mmc might enjoy a cut down version of the talk. SuperPanos are a technique I have ...
26 February, 2026
Divided Development – An Introduction
Divided development is the use of two baths – “A” contains ‘developer’ and “B” contains an ‘accelerator’ – to develop film. This has benefits and drawbac...
3 January, 2026
Using a Panoramic Head Adapter – A simple technique for perfect stitching in panoramic landscape photography
Large landscape panoramic pictures are possible via stitching many pictures. Each picture overlapping with some degree with the previous one gives a panorama close to reality as...
14 December, 2025
Vintage Glass Plates – From Test to Print
While an analogue photography habit can help us avoid the relentless tide of technological progress, it would be delusional to suggest it helps us (or me at least), avoid Gear A...
15 November, 2025
Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Image above: Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022. Most analogue photography enthusiasts, in 2025, are digital/analogue hybrid practitioners. Who amongst f...
19 October, 2025
Assignment of Exposures using Ansel Adams’ Zone System
The purpose of this post is to get the reader a full picture on The Zone System explaining step by step the way it works. Since most tutorials I have come across with were too s...
3 October, 2025
“Half Framing” Practically Any Film Camera (Part 1 of 2)
I love creativity of all kinds. But it has taken me down some strange rabbit holes (like here, here, here and here). This article is another. I hope you find it interesting and ...
