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10 January, 2015

Low light fun with Ilford HP5+ at ei3200 and Ilfotec DD-X

By Hamish Gill

These days I rarely find the need to shoot with with film much faster than 400 iso, but a few years back I used to shoot a lot more faster film. I suspect back then – sinc...

8 January, 2015

Olympus AF-10 Super Review, or: Pushing the functional limits of a crap point & shoot.

By Hamish Gill

There isn’t a great deal to say about the Olympus AF-10 Super. It’s about as basic a camera as they come. Yet as I’ve expressed in a previous post, there is so...

5 January, 2015

Adjusting a Leica M3 to focus closer than 1 metre

By Hamish Gill

I bought an Leica M3 on ebay over Christmas. To be honest, when I came around from the excitement and realised that I had bought a Leica M3 on ebay, I did worry a little bit. My...

31 December, 2014

Christmas in colour – A few shots with the Voigtlander 50mm f/1.1

By Hamish Gill

Since I banged on at some length about how I would likely only ever use my Voigtlander 50mm 1.1 for its function, ie in low light, I thought I would contradict myself and shoot ...

30 December, 2014

Pentax Espio Mini (UC-1)

By Hamish Gill

The Pentax Espio Mini (or UC-1 as it is otherwise known) doesn’t seem to demand quite the outspoken praise that some of its contemporaries do. There isn’t much info ...

29 December, 2014

Voigtlander R2A & R3A Review

By Hamish Gill

I’ve mentioned numerous times on this blog that I’ve previously owned and extensively shot with a Voigtlander R2A, a camera that I had previously kept when I sold my...

19 December, 2014

The Traveling Yashica: Austin Beeman – Ohio, USA

By Austin Beeman

I received the Yashica T5 just in time to take it to the Film Photography Podcast’s 2014 Walking Workshop in Findlay, Ohio. This was only an hour or so south of my hometo...

14 December, 2014

Modification of Pentax Espio Mini to retain flash settings

By Hamish Gill

As part of the process of playing with, testing and reviewing the Pentax Espio Mini – in much the same way as I did with the Oly mju-ii – I have become intrigued by ...

Jeffery Luhn on Lomo Daylight developing tank – A review
Bob, What a well written review/tutorial! For the trouble and expense, you make a good case for the Patterson or…
Bob Janes on Lomo Daylight developing tank – A review
I guess you could feed the film with some form of pinch roller, but he whole thing with backing paper…
Marcus Gunaratnam on Lomo Daylight developing tank – A review
I will stick to my paterson tank and adjustable reel which takes upto 120 film and dark bag than switch…

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