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10 March, 2025
5 frames with a borrowed Konica IIIa
Sometime last year I borrowed a Konica IIIa off Rob Hawthorn. The plan was to shoot a few rolls and review it. He assured me it was an awesome camera with a great lens and viewf...
10 March, 2025
Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder
Following a reasonably painful wrist injury in early 2024, compounded by three of my film Leica M’s being away for repair, I have been using a Contax G2 as my primary came...
9 March, 2025
5 Frames with Kodak Portra 400 in a Pentax 67
These photographs were captured by me in Carmel, California for my sister’s wedding. Development was done by thedarkroom.com but I scanned all of these on a Nikon Coolscan 8000 ...
8 March, 2025
Selling Italian Ice in Boston – A One Shot Story
Sales culture is one of the most distinctive traits of American anthropology. The foundations of modern marketing strategies date back to forerunners such as P.T. Barnum’s...
8 March, 2025
Maniototo Skies
The Maniototo is a wide open plain in the South Island of New Zealand. It sits at the same latitude as Queenstown, and is half way from there to the eastern coast of the island....
7 March, 2025
Marilyn Monroe in Banff – A Zero Shot Story
This story is for all the great photos we miss when we don’t have our cameras with us… Marilyn Monroe had an outsize presence in my childhood growing up in Pittsburg...
7 March, 2025
Bergger PMK Pyro B&W developer Review
Pyrogallol (pyro): white crystals which oxidise quickly turning brown. Cautions for using the raw powder are extensive – I used to handle raw chemicals but now, for some reason,...
6 March, 2025
Sting of the Vespa – A One Shot Story
Vespa, in Italian, is not only the name of the stingy and frightening wasp. The word also identifies one of the world’s most famous examples of industrial design, dating b...
