As you may recall, my initial attempts at star trails on film were with my Olympus OM1 and Fuji Natura 1600 in early 2019. The results with the 35mm film and camera were a littl...
19 February, 2020
Pushing T-Max 400 to EI3200 with a Leica M3 Monochrom and First-Gen Summilux 35mm f/1.4 – Steven Bleistein
If you shoot monochrome film, you don’t have to make do with shooting at box speed if it is a higher speed that you want, and if that is the case for you, you should not hesitat...
13 February, 2020
How I Shot A Micro-Budget Feature Film for less than £4000 with Vintage Lenses and a Sony A7s – By Brenden Singh
Why make a micro-budget feature film? Well, I had the idea since I was 14 years old. I had a lot of free time at that age, having been kicked out of Secondary School and not bei...
12 February, 2020
A Paxette Pinhole Conversion and a walk in the Countryside – By Rock
In an earlier post I suggested that the only thing left to do with my 1950s rangefinder 35mm was a pinhole conversion project, bearing in mind that most features were dead (invi...
4 February, 2020
Finding Subjects in Familiar Sights – by Chris Illing
It’s December the 23. 2018. Midnight. I’m standing in the bathroom of my parents house brushing my teeth. It felt like nothing had changed since my childhood. Everything as usua...
2 February, 2020
Travelling Myanmar Solo with Black & White Film – By Jelle Vonk
My unexposed rolls of film, put together in a plastic zip bag ready to pass through security. ‘These cannot go through the scanner’ I said firmly. No problem at all, just wait h...
16 January, 2020
Shooting Black & White Film at the Zoo – by Christian Schroeder
I have found a new thrill: photographing animals at the Hanover Zoo, my local menagerie.Well, what is it about then? Taking pictures of animals differs from taking pictures of h...
15 January, 2020
Up Close and Personal with the Ricoh GR1s and Kodak T-Max P3200 at EI12,800 – By Steven Bleistein
The Ricoh GR cameras have had a kind of cult following as a street photographer’s tool of choice going back to the days when Daido Moriyama was roaming the streets of Kabukicho ...
