Ilford Film Archives

16 February, 2025

Shooting Leica Ms and a Hasselblad 500 CM in the Canadian Rockies

By Scott Ferguson

It’s still a little unbelievable, but my son was recently gifted an extensive collection of vintage high end still equipment that had been sitting in a friend’s basement for dec...

15 February, 2025

Ilford Delta 3200 – 2016 Expired

By Geoff Chaplin

Brace yourselves, this won’t be pleasant. Stored at the top of the fridge in my London flat I found several rolls of Delta 3200 now eight years past the expiry date. I’m used to...

26 January, 2025

At the Oregon Coast… Sort of – Shooting the Mundane in B&W

By Curtis Heikkinen

My wife and I are fortunate to live in close proximity to the Oregon coast, one of the most scenic stretches of coastline in the United States, if not the world. We visit as fr...

14 January, 2025

A Fujifilm Professional GA645i and Ilford Pan F

By Ibraar Hussain

I’ve never written a 5 frames article before, usually because I can’t decide on which 5 frames I’d like to include, I’ve attempted it several times but it always ends in defeat ...

11 January, 2025

5 Shots From Minolta’s Entry Level AF SLR – The Dynax 300si

By Keith Drysdale

Quite a few years ago I was gifted a Minolta Dynax 500si. The donor had sold the lens on its own so the body came to me “because I do film photography stuff”. I alre...

10 January, 2025

5 frames with Ilford XP2 film

By Jeffery Luhn

Ilford XP2 is a black and white film emulsion designed to be processed in C-41 color chemistry. The box speed is 400, but many people shoot it at higher speeds with good results...

7 January, 2025

5 Frames with a camera from Before He Was Famous – The Triumph of Dr. Nagel.

By Richard Becker

These are from my second attempt to take pictures of snow scenes with this camera. On the first the snow was freshly fallen, and the light better, I had set the aperture to f/22...

19 December, 2024

5 frames with a Nikon F4S

By Alastair Griffiths

For a ‘Full Frame’ camera it is quite heavy. Certainly big, dwarfing my Ricoh KR10 from 1980. But without doubt it’s absolutely gorgeous. In a way it is almost cheating to call ...

Graham Line on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
My dealer let me try the 3.5 and 'fast' versions of the Super-Takumar 28 side by side and, for me,…
Michael Keppler on A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power
In an age increasingly marked by division and hatred, it would be nice if photography, and especially a site devoted…
JA on A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power
Styles come and go. None of those buildings look particularly special. They are just the style of a time there…

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