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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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Fujica Half – the Revival of a Half Frame Camera

By Julian Tanase

At some point in the first half of the 90s I was very much into 16mm and Minox format film photography (still am); 35mm was something of a side thing, with 120 MF just a roll ev...

24 January, 2024

Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 1)

By Dave Powell

Over the years, many people have asked online how to do macro photography with vintage Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLRs. Here’s a 2005 thread on the subject. Common wisdom says that Co...

23 January, 2024

5 Frames Testing a Long Since Used Olympus 35 ECR

By Roger

This camera including its now very battered soft case is one I bought in the early 1970s as a student to complement a much heavier Pentax SLR. It had a lot of use in the 1970s a...

23 January, 2024

Bronica ETRSi and 135W – First Whole Roll Experiences

By Roger

I have recently been experimenting with film again and, using a normal 35mm camera, and decided that I wanted to try something with panoramic format. There is an obvious choice,...

22 January, 2024

Klito no. 2 hand camera – That time when I revived a camera from 1906.

By Tony Warren

I wrote an article in 2001 about an almost 100 year old camera. Revisiting it now just over 20 years later I am staggered at the progress that has been made with digital equipme...

21 January, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta XD7 and Kodak Vision 3 250D

By Nico Ghirlando

Does the camera I am using at the time affect the images I make? Perhaps. I’m not so sure. It certainly it affects the enjoyment of the process. But is the process important or ...

20 January, 2024

5 frames with Zebra Dry Plate Tin Types

By Michael Graziano

When I made the leap to shooting large format this year after almost 20 years of exclusively shooting 35mm film, I immediately was drawn to the wide ranging world of alt-process...

18 January, 2024

New website – Live! (now help me find the weird stuff)

By Hamish Gill

The NEW website is live and working (and fast!!). I’m going to keep it free of adverts for the weekend I think, so please enjoy the ad-free experience until then! In the m...

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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…
Scott Ferguson on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
Hi Christopher, I believe they use Kodak TMax. I called the lab, Photo Life in Brooklyn, to ask them that…

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