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I had without realising it been spoiled by a lab that used Fuji Negastar B/W developer. This developer made all the films I sent, especially 400asa films, look great. Fine grain...
The Troytsa is a religious monument, showing Christ on a cross (or just a cross) in various models, depending on the artist’s skills or local custom. It is made many times in a ...
I’m sure that I’m no different from most photographers when I travel – I always take far more gear than I end up using. In February had a 10 day work trip, with a couple of days...
24 June, 2024
The Kids Are Alright – A One Shot Story
While walking back to our car after Indian food with friends, my wife and I passed a group of kids waiting in front of a skate venue that was hosting live music later in the eve...
24 June, 2024
Olympus E-1 Review – Down the Kodak CCD Rabbit Hole
To go down the Rabbit Hole: To enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one tha...
This subminiature stuff tends to drag you in.. While looking at various ways of reloading and re-using 110 cartridges recently, I remembered that I’d come across some 110 film w...
22 June, 2024
In praise of ‘cheap’ lenses for ‘pro’ works
I have recently discovered Viltrox, a Chinese manufacturer of lenses for the Fujifilm X-system. I am using the AF 85/1,8 II XF and the AF 56/1,4 XF and I am very satisfied by th...
21 June, 2024
The World is Freshly Washed – A One Shot Story
In the first warm light of a beautiful and cloudless October morning, the place lies gently nestled at the exit of the sewer, on a moraine ridge and looks east with the harbor o...
