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 ...
I am a member of an analog photography Facebook group and some time ago a person by the name of David contacted me and asked if I wanted to help him develop some old exposed rol...
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 ...
Caffinol...? That's old school. Have you tried any of the Polyphenol developer alternatives?
By now most everyone who follows analog/film photography has heard of or has seen f...
This article seeks to inform about the digitising of analogue film, it discusses the issues involved, different approaches available to do it for yourself, and the hardware and ...
Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. Is it a stone? No, it's a prewar Contax. I say "almost unbreakable", as these poor specimens have seen better ...
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...
As I read and learnt more about printing, a mysterious phrase appeared on my radar – split grade (or split filtration) printing. Its advocates claim miraculous benefits – fast a...
