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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...
21 June, 2024
How to Take a 3-D Photo with Almost Any Camera
Today, June 21st 2024, is the 3rd International Stereoscopy Day, 186 years since inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone first presented his mirror stereoscope and theory of binocular v...
20 June, 2024
5 frames with a Voigtländer Bessa R2, a Nokton 35/1,4 and a roll of an expired Kodak Portra 160
Tevere, the river that divides Rome in two, is one of my favourite places. No matter how much chaos there is in the ‘high places’: walking along the banks of the riv...
20 June, 2024
Perfecting the 110 re-load
This article is about my experiments in modifying an existing 110 cartridge to take commercially available 16mm film. To start with, I’d like to acknowledge the support th...
19 June, 2024
Easter Night Vigil in an Orthodox Community
Religiously, the Republic of Moldova belongs to the Eastern Orthodox Church; the fact that it’s of the “old” Byzantine style, or the “new” orthodox...
19 June, 2024
My First Five Rolls of Film (Ever)
I didn’t mean to get into shooting film. It was never my plan, never something I set out to do. I certainly had no idea that the format was becoming popular again, or more popul...
