Adox CHS 100 ART The Adox brand has had a very complex history. Originally a German company formed in 1860 by Dr Carl Schleussner to manufac...

Ilford FP4 Plus This film was the first B&W film I ever used, although now called FP4 'plus' it has very similar characteristics...

Fuji Neopan Acros This film despite having the word 'new' all over its packaging has been around since 2002, I suppose compared to o...

Adox CHS 25 ART This film has been around since the 1950's and is the same as the EFKE emulsion that was called KB14. I had used the KB1...

Fomapan 100 Classic Foma is a Czech firm that have been making film since the 1920's Foma (link) based in Bohemia make a range of film...

Gigabit Film Gigabit film is a slow microfilm type emulsion packaged with its own developer, so you need to be prepared to process it yourse...

Kodak Plus-x-Pan This film has been around for quite a few years, with a recent revision when Kodak moved its production to a new factory, h...

You've Never Had it So Good! Its a digital world, everywhere you look digital this, digital that;– seems the whole world has gone digita...

A 35mm Canon F1.8 for my Leica Since I first started photography in the late 1970's my lens of choice has been the 50mm. It just seemed ...

The Price of Perfection 'Quality' What does it mean? To the average person it's the clearest, sharpest noise/grain free image th...

Going... Going... Gone? The end for Kodachrome? I was browsing the internet today when I read this post . I trust the poster, I've seen ...

Winter Photography One of the most difficult times of the year for me to take images is in the winter. When I leave for work in the morning ...

Pentax Pictures As you will know if you read this blog I recently acquired a Pentax 6x7, not my first Medium Format camera (by a long shot) ...

Autumn Colours and Missed Opertunities Just last week I was driving down a street in my town and was amazed by the fantastic colours of the...

Medium Format Acquisition For a while now I've been looking for a good MF camera, my first thought was a Mamiya RB 6x7 then I became in...

More Paper Tests This morning yet more packages of paper arrived, some A3+ Fotospeed Fineart gloss and a test-pack of Hahnemühle paper. Afte...

Liquid Sky Sometimes it pays to look up! this shot was one of those moments where I saw the sky, got out the camera and took a couple of sho...

Scanning Film Sooner or later most film camera users will need to digitise their work. Some (like me) prefer to go from film to digital befo...

Paper Chase During the last week or so I've been trying out lots of different paper combinations on my new Epson R2400, trying to arrive...

Back to the Future Kodachrome, ah yes that wonderful historic slide film! The first roll I used was about 25 years ago, it came back after t...