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7 February, 2024
Ilford PanF 50 Plus in the Photography Studio
In this article, I briefly discuss use of Ilford PanF 50 Plus in the studio for portraiture – specifically, mother and baby styled shoots I’ve been a photographer for a lo...
6 February, 2024
Self-Publishing Books of Your Photography for the Skint Neophyte
Many of us in this film-photography hobby want to print books of our work. We share our photographs online, which is great, but there’s just something about people holding...
6 February, 2024
Drinking Districts in Japan VII: Obihiro
We went to Obihiro primarily to eat – the food seems so much better than the area where we live – and also to see a friend; unexpectedly I came back with a large present – a Pen...
5 February, 2024
Fuji MX-500 – 5 Frames for Jankuary with my first digital camera
Given that others are digging out newer cameras for Jankuary, I decided to take another look at my first digital camera – a Fujifilm MX-500. This had a 1.5 megapixel camer...
If you like to shoot film, then you understand that it isn’t every day that a camera maker comes to market with a line of new cameras, let alone large format view cameras....
4 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Kodak Medalist II and Ektar 100
Kodak’s original brochure for the Medalist II describes it as a “compact, integrated assembly”. They’re so wrong. It’s a magnificent beast. The cel...
3 February, 2024
Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article, I stumbled on a way to shoot “super-macro” photos with a vintage Contaflex SLR! And it was done without Zeiss Ikon’s “Proxar” screw-on lens adapters (...
You’ll think I’m nuts to recommend an admittedly “janky” digital camera that dates all the way back to 1999. During the original Polaroid company’s final years before closing it...
