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20 June, 2024
Perfecting the 110 re-load
This article is about my experiments in modifying an existing 110 cartridge to take commercially available 16mm film. To start with, I’d like to acknowledge the support th...
19 June, 2024
Easter Night Vigil in an Orthodox Community
Religiously, the Republic of Moldova belongs to the Eastern Orthodox Church; the fact that it’s of the “old” Byzantine style, or the “new” orthodox...
19 June, 2024
My First Five Rolls of Film (Ever)
I didn’t mean to get into shooting film. It was never my plan, never something I set out to do. I certainly had no idea that the format was becoming popular again, or more popul...
18 June, 2024
Melbourne 1996 – A One Shot Story by David Hume
I came across this photo yesterday while looking for something else. I immediately remembered the circumstances of taking it. In the 1990s I used to exhibit my artworks in Melbo...
18 June, 2024
5 Frames with a Fujifilm GA645
I have never gone through film as quickly as I have with the Fujifilm GA645. Ten rolls in the first week of ownership. There are other cameras I profess to really like that have...
I’ve been writing about film cameras for a long time now, but the release of a new film camera from a major brand like Pentax feels somehow more significant than most, if not al...
I decided to expose RPX 25 (two years past its use by date) at 100asa unfiltered. Why? Well (a) I am after all British, and that’s the sort of stupid thing we do sometimes, (b) ...
17 June, 2024
Adox CHS 100 II – First Impressions
Adox CHS 100 II is an orthopanchromatic film on a PET base. Orthopanchromatic? What is that? In brief, somewhere between ortho and pan, but the long and better explanation is as...
