8 August, 2024
Adventures in C-Mount 110-Film Scanning
In a previous article, I explored macro-photography using C-mount cine lenses attached to a Fiji X-Pro1 APS-C digital. In those three experiments, I discovered that my mounting ...
Well, here we are. Once every while during the pursuit of your passion you get to wonder what’s wrong with you to make you end up in the current situation your in. For me...
23 July, 2024
Agfa Copex Rapid – Development Tests
The EU seems to produce a rich array of unusual (“speciality”) films – from Adox, Rollei, Spur and others (many of which are rebranded Agfa-Gaevert films). ...
19 July, 2024
Rodinal Tests – Temperature, Grain and Contrast
Rodinal is a high acutance (sharpness) developer. High acutance means grain as well as the image is more clearly defined. So if I develop at different temperatures either the gr...
17 July, 2024
How to Make Tea… PC-TEA that is
I have been developing my own film for a few years now and am slightly addicted to the process. There is just something magic about loading your film into the spools adding the ...
9 July, 2024
Bi-Pack Bi-Chromes: or How I learned to love making color pictures on black and white film in a single exposure
Recently, I was chatting with the manager of VSSOutlet, a mostly online used camera gear shop, but which also happens to be located near me. He showed me a weird sliding large f...
27 June, 2024
My First use of Caffenol
There is lots of advice on this on the web but here is some more, in case it is helpful to anyone. I recently started to use film again and, as it was inexpensive, invested in a...
21 June, 2024
How to Take a 3-D Photo with Almost Any Camera
Today, June 21st 2024, is the 3rd International Stereoscopy Day, 186 years since inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone first presented his mirror stereoscope and theory of binocular v...
