11 January, 2024
The End of the Line
Imagine a land where snow and ice cover the ground for five months of the year, where summers are short and cool, weather unpredictable, high winds and very heavy rain not infre...
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16 December, 2023
5 Frames with Ilford Delta 100
I have adopted stand development in Rodinal 100:1 as my developer and process – easy, cheap, reliable, not fussy about temperature, and producing high acutance (strong ed...
2 December, 2023
Development Tests, Part 2: Adox Rodinal 400:1, Fomapan 100 Classic and TTArtisans 50mm f1.4
I rephotographed some earlier images in good sunlight (versus cloudy dull before). The same film stock was shot on a Leica MP with a TTArtisans 50mm f1.4 lens and film developed...
25 November, 2023
Development Tests: Rodinal 200:1 and re-used 400:1
How cheaply can you develop a film? Ten cents a roll? One cent??? I usually develop film in Adox Rodinal (now five years old) diluted 100:1 in water at 15-24 degrees and stand d...
12 October, 2023
Sunset Story
“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.” Mahatma Gandhi As dusk approached I went to the l...
11 October, 2023
Rollei RPX 100 and some comparisons to ADOX Silvermax.
My goto film is FP4 for a variety of reasons – flexibility in exposure, contrast and tonal rendition, grain level, dries flat after development, and others. But in Japan ...
28 September, 2023
FOMA 100 Classic, and a Small Town in the Middle of Nowhere
Unless there is a manufacturing problem films do not have “faults”, they have “features”. So in the review below I shall mention some of the features...
26 September, 2023
AgfaPhoto APX 100 in Furano, Hokkaido
The character on the right, Hesomaru, is the mascot of Furano. The ‘face’ is drawn on his rather large belly while is head and arms are hidden under the hat. Heso me...