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5 November, 2025

Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan

By Scott Ferguson

5 November, 2025

/ Ilford Film, Ilford Pan F, /

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11 March, 2025

5 Frames in Stuttgart with a Canon Serenar 50mm f/1.8 and Kodak 5222 Double-X

By RichardH

The Canon Serenar 50mm f/1.8 lens in M39 mount is a heavy brass assembly weighing 270 grams. It is small, so the weight feels exaggerated in my hand. It has 10 diaphragm blades ...

10 March, 2025

5 frames with a borrowed Konica IIIa

By Hamish Gill

Sometime last year I borrowed a Konica IIIa off Rob Hawthorn. The plan was to shoot a few rolls and review it. He assured me it was an awesome camera with a great lens and viewf...

10 March, 2025

Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder

By Simon King

Following a reasonably painful wrist injury in early 2024, compounded by three of my film Leica M’s being away for repair, I have been using a Contax G2 as my primary came...

9 March, 2025

5 Frames with Kodak Portra 400 in a Pentax 67

By Scott Micciche

These photographs were captured by me in Carmel, California for my sister’s wedding. Development was done by thedarkroom.com but I scanned all of these on a Nikon Coolscan 8000 ...

8 March, 2025

Selling Italian Ice in Boston – A One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

Sales culture is one of the most distinctive traits of American anthropology. The foundations of modern marketing strategies date back to forerunners such as P.T. Barnum’s...

8 March, 2025

Maniototo Skies

By Logan Mortimer

The Maniototo is a wide open plain in the South Island of New Zealand. It sits at the same latitude as Queenstown, and is half way from there to the eastern coast of the island....

7 March, 2025

Marilyn Monroe in Banff – A Zero Shot Story

By Scott Ferguson

This story is for all the great photos we miss when we don’t have our cameras with us… Marilyn Monroe had an outsize presence in my childhood growing up in Pittsburg...

7 March, 2025

Bergger PMK Pyro B&W developer Review

By Geoff Chaplin

Pyrogallol (pyro): white crystals which oxidise quickly turning brown. Cautions for using the raw powder are extensive – I used to handle raw chemicals but now, for some reason,...

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Gary Smith on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
I've been developing my film for the last two years (after having my own darkroom 50 years ago). As I…
RichardH on Original, Freewill, Artificial
That is some fine work, Raymond! The deep tones of your images capture the dense shade at the base of…
Scott Ferguson on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
Hi Russ, Thanks so much! It's kind of hard to believe I was too shy to ask people for a…

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