29 February, 2024
That Time I Built an X-Pro1/Monitor-Six-20 “FrankenFuji”
In my days before 35mmc, Jim Gray published this article on his great “Down the Road” site. It described how and why I adapted a 1940’s Kodak Monitor Six-20 le...
26 May, 2023
That Time I Shot with Ilford Multigrade RC as film.
Many moons ago I was keen to try my hand with large format, as large as I could manage, 10 x 8 seeming a good choice. You can tell how long ago from my pinhole shot of the Humbe...
When Part 2 of this three-part series went online, reader Stephen Meese made a comment that said it all:
"Wait, you experimented with a different film format, AND shot without...
21 February, 2023
That Time I “Half-Framed” a cute Kodak Flash Bantam camera (Part 2 of 3)
Part 1 of this three-part mini-series detailed how I converted a lovely little Kodak Flash Bantam camera to shoot half-frame images. It was fun and (more-or-less) easier than ex...
14 February, 2023
That time I “Half-Framed” a cute Kodak Flash Bantam camera (Part 1 of 3)
I’ve long wanted a half-frame 35mm camera. Doubling one’s images per roll is especially great now that film costs more. I’m an inveterate tinkerer, though, and preferred to conv...
10 November, 2022
My First Shots with the Pan-Holga 360 – by Sonny Rosenberg
The Pan-Holga was created by the inventor Richard McCaleb around 2003, at least that's when he sent it to Cory Armantrout who I just bought it from. I was compulsively perusing ...
16 October, 2020
That time I shot 35mm film in a Rolleicord – by Teemu Matilainen
Since getting back to film photography I've been wanting to try out some medium format photography. I had previously only shot a few rolls during my first studies in the beginni...
Those of you who follow my ramblings will be aware that I’ve recently been through a little bit of a phase of shooting Pentax SLRs. The thing I’m beginning to love about them is...
