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28 July, 2025
Analogue (and analogue inspired) Newsletter August 2025
Welcome to the August Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle. July wanes into August and once that flies past and the children are back to School it’ll be...
28 July, 2025
SmartConvert – Inverting negatives smartly
There are many methods to scan and convert film negatives into positives. One common method is to scan into a raw file with a scanner or, more commonly, a digital camera. The pr...
28 July, 2025
Zeiss Ikon S 310 – The Last Contessa – Urban shooting in Norwich London and Cambridge in Black and White
I bought myself this Zeiss Ikon S 310 recently and have been hooked on it, it’s a little gem. I bought it on a knee jerk; after using my Balda CA 35 and with Hamish kindly...
In the relatively early days of digital I was involved in online discussions about whether the fact that our short-to-shot cost with digital cameras was tempting us to ‘spray an...
Antoine Bourdelle isn’t a household name in the U.S. But he’s nearly legendary in France. His life stood squarely at the crossroads of European art’s transition from Beaux-Arts ...
I’ve been experimenting with high resolution films of various kinds since returning to analogue photography and one of the more interesting products in this category is Kodak Te...
Twice in the last few years I’ve been fortunate to haveva friend gift me some wonderful gear. A former co-worker, mentor and dear friend in his 80’s gave me his Horseman 980, a ...
25 July, 2025
Autumn Artichokes – An Ekphrastic* Poem (One Shot Story)
Past their prime in a Paris garden. Abandoned artichokes. Wrapped in brown against autumn winds. Forgotten. Inedible. Suitable now for fall arrangements. Or compost. Grieving al...
