When you get right down to it, there are only three things a camera needs to do: form an image, record that image, and be otherwise light-tight. All the rest – focusing a...
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21 September, 2020
Nine Homemade Cameras: Pinhole Adventures Part 1 – by Sroyon
Aren't humans amazing. We develop sophisticated technology – high-resolution sensors, superfast lenses – to record images. But we also make, and express ourselves with, the simp...
7 September, 2020
How to Get Started Developing Black & White Film for £25 (or Less) – by Sroyon Mukherjee
If you're thinking of dipping your toe into black-and-white film development but feel put off because it seems too expensive or too complicated, this post is for you. If you're ...
When we zoom in or use a longer focal length, the subject looks bigger... other things being equal, of course. But other things need not be equal. We can, for instance, zoom in ...
If you saw the recent "Guess the Focal Length" Twitter post, this is where we reveal the answers. You can of course jump straight to the end, but since the photos were part of a...
Lockdown Lumen is a collaborative project by 12 artists in 8 different countries in various stages of COVID-19 lockdown. Using the medium of lumen, an alternative process which ...
Lockdown Lumen is a collaborative project by 12 artists in 8 different countries in various stages of COVID-19 lockdown. Using the medium of lumen, an alternative process which ...
So far in this series I’ve only talked about ‘straight printing’, which is to say, no part of the image was locally manipulated. I tweaked exposure and contrast of course, but t...