I lost my mother to Covid-19 on January 29th, 2021, just two days after her seventy-third birthday. Apart from the obvious complications of holding a funeral in the middle of a ...
15 August, 2021
Ilford HP5 and a First Experiment at 3200 – by Jonathan Slater
Minolta's SRT series is regarded as something of a classic for good reason - they're beautifully tactile in the hands, make sounds that you can find videos dedicated to on YouTu...
12 August, 2021
Shooting Stardust with Ilford Delta 3200 and a Minolta SRT 100 – By Stephen Badolato
Photography—film photography in particular—brings a lot of heartache. Your eyes see something worth preserving and the final result never seems to capture it the way you remembe...
“There is a certain life to your photographs that extends beyond the organic matter.” Wow, does he really mean what he's saying? That's what went through my mind when I first re...
23 July, 2021
Ilford HP5+ at Adventurous ASAs – By Kieran Newman
Ilford’s HP5+ is one of the industry standards for black and white film – an inexpensive 400 ASA emulsion available almost everywhere and used by almost everyone at some point i...
I returned to film in 2016 when my wife gifted me a Zorki-4 with Jupiter-8 and said that I was shooting better pictures with film cameras years before. This started a tremendous...
24 May, 2021
Minolta Autocord TLR: First Impressions – by Sroyon
I shot a roll with a twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) for the first time this month. But long before I used a TLR in real life, I loved the idea of it – so much so that I thought t...
I recently spent about eight hours in Istanbul during a stopover between my flights from Bulgaria to my onward travel to the United States. I made it into the terminal at just a...