30 April, 2024
5 frames with Fomachrom D II 20
Most photographers today know Foma from their black and white film but there was a time when the Czech company produced colour as well. The exact information about it is scant b...
1 March, 2024
Festivity of the Goat and “Canhoto”
The village of Cidões has just 20 inhabitants. It’s located in Trás-os-Montes, in the northern inland of Portugal. Every year, on the Saturday after 31 October, the villag...
18 February, 2024
A Wet and Misty Thames Walk with a Leica iiig and 50mm Summar
A walk with a Leica iiig from the late 1960s (recently restored by PPP cameras) and Summar lens from the 1930s, at first finishing off a Silvermax roll then Fomapan 100 and RPX ...
11 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Yashica 35 Rangefinder
Six months ago I left Florida and moved to Vietnam as something of an economic refugee. I’m a science teacher and staying in Florida increasingly meant subsistence living and th...
14 November, 2023
5 Frames with Foma Fomapan Retro 200 Black and White, Pentax 645N and FA 75mm f/2.8
I will start with something about Foma Fomapan Retro 200 Black & White that I said in a blog post about another film. What is that you say? Lower price and acceptable result...
It was early on in the morning so there was still some mist hanging over the fields and canal when I jumped from my boat onto the towpath and meandered my way to Tesco in town. ...
28 September, 2023
FOMA 100 Classic, and a Small Town in the Middle of Nowhere
Unless there is a manufacturing problem films do not have “faults”, they have “features”. So in the review below I shall mention some of the features of this film. Let me start ...
15 September, 2023
A Hike with Leica IIIC and Fomapan 400
Perhaps you remember that 1940’s Leica IIIC, shown here in a recent article. Well, I managed to avoid using it (unsuccessfully) for several days, but in the end I succumbed to m...