10 January, 2023
Gear Theory – Shooting Film in the Rain – By Ted Ayre
I grew up on my neighbours’ farm in the Lake District, England and spent lots of time as a child helping the adults outside with the sheep, lambs and cows in the pouring r...
30 December, 2022
Shooting infrared with a rangefinder camera, Rollei Infrared film and a Retina IIc – By Tony Warren
A comment on my review of Rollei Infrared film triggered this follow up. In his comment, Neal Wellons pointed out, quite correctly, that, for infrared photography, using a range...
Just because a lens has a wide field of view doesn't mean it will be the best fit for an expansive scene. Just because a lens has a narrow field of view it doesn't mean it's onl...
11 December, 2022
The Humble Strap: From Shoelace to Salvation – By Tim Snow
The epitome of simplicity; it’s a strap. It attaches to your camera to help you suspend it from your shoulder or neck to keep your hands free to drink tea. To help avoid acciden...
29 September, 2022
For Quick Film Scans, Try an Olympus C-8080WZ!
An old friend recently asked if I could digitize some 35mm slides of a coastal Maine motel her family once owned. She’d researched the commercial cost of scanning, and before bi...
24 September, 2022
Some Rolling-Shutter Fun… From a Moving Bus – By Dave Powell
The proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention” is credited to philosophers going back to Plato. But a modern paraphrase claims that boredom is another mother of invention. I...
21 September, 2022
Foveon Color and Infrared Black & White Back to Back Comparison w/ SIGMA dp2 Quattro and sd Quattro – By Eric L. Woods
When not shooting film I really enjoy using SIGMA's Quattro cameras. Have had and still have other more conventional digital solutions, but I really like these oddball offerings...
22 August, 2022
AE-1 vs. OM4 – A Viable Alternative to Usual Recommendations – By Michael Allan-Wood
It’s no secret that film has had a significant revival throughout the chaos that was, and still is, COVID-19. Isolation, forced or otherwise, has caused many to take to new hobb...
