The idea of trying to take macro shots on film came to me, when I was watching older illustrated books with all kinds of nature photography. I'm deeply impressed by what the nat...
I got back into film photography at the start of the first Lockdown, buying a £15.00 folding camera and a roll of HP5 and fell in love with a process I hadn’t used for more than...
Some of us know Kodachrome from the iconic Afghan Girl photo by National Geographic's Steve McCurry. Some of us might even have watched the 2017 movie of the same name, about an...
29 April, 2022
8 Frames Of The Deschutes River Trail With An Olympus 35 RD And Kodak Ektachrome 200 – By Shawn Granton
One of the reasons I love living in Portland, Oregon is the access to diverse landscapes. The city and surroundings most resemble what one thinks of "Pacific Northwest USA", a l...
"Are you interested by this?" My neighbor and friend Philippe, hand widely opened, shows me a yellow canister tagged Gold 200. I grab it, a bit confused:
"I thought you only sh...
6 April, 2022
The Black & White Threshold – Photographing Scotland’s Skye and Assynt – By Jasper T Kauth
Photographs can be a bit like poems. There are those that speak to you in such a personal way and evoke such strong feelings, and yet you might be unable to put into words just ...
Last autumn a friend sent me a message to say he was moving house and clearing out the final bits of his late father’s camera collection. He said he had a box full of ‘mostly ju...
23 February, 2022
5 Frames with Expired Kodak Plus X and my Favorite Classic Manual Cameras – By Zheng Li
Recently I acquired some expired B&W film. I have heard about this film before, but never tried. It was the Kodak Plus-X in 4x5 sheets, which expired in 1981. Plus-x was an ISO ...