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20 May, 2025

Introducing Frames – A New App to Log and Sync Film Photography Metadata

By Vincent

20 May, 2025

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26 March, 2024

Kodak Retina IIc – My Journey and Discovery

By Bob Israel

I recently started shooting film. I should say, I recently started shooting film again. Back in the 80s, I shot mostly slide film as I began to explore photography. I was very m...

Grainsplaining International Women's Month Print Sale

25 March, 2024

NEWS: Grainsplaining Returns with Print Sale March 29th – April 1st For Women’s Charities

By Molly Kate

Film photography podcast, Grainsplaining, is back from a short hiatus this month with an International Women’s Day charity print sale running through Instagram. Centred a...

25 March, 2024

KEKS KM-Q – A Sugar Cube-Sized Light Meter Review

By AndreArma

As I began shooting film, my first lesson was in mastering the Sunny 16 rule — a technique for getting proper exposure without relying on a light meter. Over the years, I...

25 March, 2024

Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D in Walthamstow Marshes – Unleashing the CCD Kraken

By Ibraar Hussain

With this dark grey miserable harsh winter never ending I thought I’d add some colour into my (and your) day by writing about colour and my experience with it. Much has be...

24 March, 2024

How (not) to Reticulate

By Geoff Chaplin

I was developing film away from my darkroom. I had assembled the essential equipment and, because I knew that untreated tap water in Brussels used to be very hard, I had made up...

Page from a journal showing a diagram of a Newcomen engine.

24 March, 2024

Historical Records in Family Photographs

By Richard Becker

I am the custodian of a large archive of images taken by at least five generations of my family, with the oldest negatives dating to the mid-1880’s. These taken by Percy ...

23 March, 2024

Compact Formation: Shooting Football with a Superzoom

By Gillian Kirby

In the days before digital became the standard for sports photography, the SLR was king. Photographers lined up pitch-side to capture the action, Minolta, Nikon or Canon camera ...

22 March, 2024

Carl Zeiss 38mm Sonnar / Omnar CX38-28 for use on Hasselblad XCD and Fuji GFX

By Christopher Andreyo

Hamish asked me recently to write an article about my findings on the Carl Zeiss 38mm f/2.8 Sonnar (/Omnar CX38-28) when mounted on Hasselblad XCD and Fuji GFX cameras. Wait...

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Geoff Chaplin on Type 517 developed in R09 – Life and Death in London
Thanks Gary. There's a certain consistency here with some very good art amongst the clutter. Graffiti in Brussels is just…
Geoff Chaplin on Type 517 developed in R09 – Life and Death in London
Thanks very much Ibraar. I moved into that area in 1995 so missed the old East End, but this area…
Geoff Chaplin on Type 517 developed in R09 – Life and Death in London
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