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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Processing Your First Colour Negative Film

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Its not as hard as you think! In these days of ever shrinking film market we often find ourselves looking for a good photographic lab for c...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Ensign Ful-Vue

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The Ensign Ful-Vue is an English box camera manufactured by Houghton-Butcher. Early pre-war versions were simply a box with a larger than n...
Monday, December 06, 2010

In Praise of Rodinal (Part 1)

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History   Rodinal in one form or another has been available to photographers for over a century. Originally produced by Agfa it can now b...
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Friday, November 26, 2010

Found Film: 1970's Ilford FP4

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Every so often I'm given a little photographic archaeology project, films that have been left in cameras or draws, for over 60 years in...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Filmwasters

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The Filmwasters are a group of individuals who share a passion for all things film. They have forums, both audio and video podcasts, print e...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Scanning with the Epson V500

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Scanning film with an Epson Flatbed Like most film photographers I need to scan my images in order to post them on forums or to my...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Found Film Photographers

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I've decided to do a regular feature on photographers whose work I like or admire who still use film. One of the most often asked quest...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Autumn Colours

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These are just a few images taken during October with my Rolleiflex 3,5F some with the Rolleinar 2 close-up lens (a must for Rolleiflex/co...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Book Review: Making Kodak Film– by Robert L. Shanebrook

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I don't normally review books, so please excuse my awkwardness but I feel this particular book is very important because it is as far as...
Friday, September 24, 2010

New Fujifilm Medium Format Camera

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Fuji Has just announced that it plans to release a new medium format camera. The camera is called the GF670W and has a wide angle 55mm ƒ:4,...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Kodak announces new Portra 400 film

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Kodak Have recently introduced a new 400 ISO film to their Portra range here is what their blurb: "The new PORTRA 400 is the world’...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Human Rangefinder

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As you probably know at this blog we occaisionally use old folding cameras like the Zeiss Ikon and Ensign Selfix. The biggest problem with ...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Film is Expensive?

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Film An often repeated claim I hear goes like this: I don't use film anymore as the whole thing has become too expensive, or some incred...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Fun with POP

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Printing out paper or POP as it is often reffered to has been around since the 1880's and is one of the first gelatin based photographic...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Early Kodachrome film test

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The following is an amazing test of Kodachrome colour movie film from 1922, of course its silent but quite beautiful. This test predates the...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

My Penultimate Kodachrome Roll

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After Kodak anounced that they were deleting kodachrome I had three rolls in my fridge. I had all sorts of ideas about grand last projects b...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Kodak Release Ektar in Sheet sizes

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Kodak have recently announced that they will introduce a 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film size of their popular Ektar 100 emulsion. Now large-format...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Adjacency effects in B&W film development

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There are many types of density anomalies that can be recorded in the silver photographic image, flare and other optical chain faults, as we...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Rolleiflex 3,5F

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Last year I bought a Rolleiflex T and re-acquainted myself with using a TLR and although not the perfect camera (what is)? it is one that w...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Kodak Ektar 100 in 120

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It is now over a year since Kodak announced the 35mm version of this film, after which many photographers asked for it in 120 size. After a ...
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