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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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22 July, 2025

Underground 2: Coudenberg Palace, with a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f1.5

By Geoff Chaplin

The Palace of Coudenberg (central Brussels), supposedly one of the finest in Europe, was destroyed by fire in 1731 (CE) and the ruins demolished in the late 18th century to make...

22 July, 2025

Kodachrome 25 K14 – My first and last ever 2 rolls and remembering the ContaxG Pages site

By Ibraar Hussain

In memory of my friend and mentor Lincoln Michaud born February 12th 1940 in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, p[assed away on March 29th 2015 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Kodachrome They...

21 July, 2025

Adox HR-50 – A Better Aerial Film

By Omar Tibi

One night months ago, I was hunched over my laptop, feeding my film appetite, looking for a store that had Adox HR-50 in stock. I had just stumbled across it while looking for n...

21 July, 2025

Box Brownie No. 2 – 1888 and all that

By Tony Warren

Review of Box Brownie No. 2

20 July, 2025

Oberwerth M Bag – Worth the Price-tag?

By Derek Hope

Wherever you’re from, you’ll have probably heard the old adage “variety is the spice of life”. While this is true in many ways, when it comes to photography gear, I’ve always fo...

20 July, 2025

Oto Fūkei – A Photographic Soundscape from Japan

By Sergei Dubovenko

During a vacation in Japan, I found myself instinctively pairing photographs with audio recordings from the same moments and places. I didn’t know what I was making yet, but I l...

19 July, 2025

Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture

By Scott Ferguson

Photographing people is easy in an urban setting like New York because they are everywhere. Getting good shots of people, maybe not so easy. In my early days of trying to shoot...

19 July, 2025

On Film Simulation or ‘is fiction more real than reality, and why should we care?’

By Andrea Monti

Simulations have turned an inevitable fact —using the chosen brand and type of film for an entire roll— into an aesthetic tool allowing the selection of the most appropriate ima...

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Scott Ferguson on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
That's great! I think I want to get a little more experience at shooting before getting into processing, but have…
Gary Smith on Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
I've been developing my film for the last two years (after having my own darkroom 50 years ago). As I…
RichardH on Original, Freewill, Artificial
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