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28 November, 2025

I can’t stop scratching

By Alastair Griffiths

28 November, 2025

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Rodinal Tests – Temperature, Grain and Contrast

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Sony a700 from 2007 Revisited – Sony and APS-C part 2 of 3

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5 Frames with ‘a’ Kodak Autographic № 3.

By Richard Becker

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17 July, 2024

How to Make Tea… PC-TEA that is

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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 ...

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5 Frames of Sunsets in Black and White

By Geoff Chaplin

Aren’t sunsets about colour? Black and white is pattern and texture of course but more than that, for me at least, it captures the soul or atmosphere of the scene. I find black ...

16 July, 2024

Controlling the shutter on an automatic Polaroid pack camera

By Jim Skelton

Polaroid pack film cameras are very cool. Sitting somewhere between medium and large format (3″x4″), these cameras took instant peel-apart pictures that looked and f...

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