14 February, 2024
The Black and White Paper Reversal Process
I recently wrote about my adventures in RA4 colour reversal and the Pinsta pinhole camera. Once I had a workable method, I got to wondering about how difficult it might be to pe...
2 February, 2024
F-Stop Printing in the Darkroom
Although I scan all my negatives so that I can share photos online, I prefer to make prints in the darkroom. I find it to be an engaging technical craft that provides endless th...
12 December, 2023
116 Cameras – Shooting Wide Aspect Ratio on a Shoestring
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...
5 December, 2023
How to Refill an Ilford Disposable Camera
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
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...
25 November, 2023
Development Tests: Rodinal 200:1 and re-used 400:1
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
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. Sipping a co...
20 October, 2023
How to Make a Digital Contact Sheet
The scanning method described here is based only on my best personal result, I’m sure other more easy methods could give similar or even better results than mine ones. Why...
