I never bought a new camera in my whole life. In my teens I started taking pictures with my father's old Agfa Silette. Three speeds, manual focusing, no light meter, but setting...
21 December, 2020
Kodachrome 64 – Digitising for the “Look”? – By David Hume
It started with a kiss… You see, my wedding photos are on Kodachrome 64 (PKR). Just one roll, and a roll of HP5 as well. My brother-in-law and I shot them between us. I processe...
19 October, 2020
Digitising Film – My Adventures So Far – By David Hume
A weird thing happened a couple of years ago; I’d been on a solo bike tour in Western Australia, along off-road tracks through very beautiful and remote country.
I was alone - ...
In 1977 I abandoned the 110 format and bought the Pentax ME camera with its 50mm lens, it had insufficient angle for the panoramas I wanted to photograph, so I bought the Pentax...
7 June, 2020
Scanning/Digitising My Life – By Jordi Fradera
In normal times, moderately active people, whatever their age, have occupations and hobbies that fill their time - this freedom is essential and with it we can do a lot of thing...
3 February, 2020
Own Your Workflow and Goals (and don’t get too distracted by the mantras of others)
One of the wonderful things about photography is how broad it is as a pastime. The options are absolutely endless, from capture media, camera type, process to display. In fact, ...
Kodak Portra 800 is quite possibly my favourite colour negative film. I say that as someone who’s just committed to shooting only P3200 and Ektachrome E100 for at least 6 months...
There’s been a large amount of chatter on some of the analogue photography Facebook groups recently about whether or not it’s cheating to use software to tweak your film photos ...
