10 November, 2024
5 Frames with Contax T and Fomapan 200
It’s been years since I shot 35mm film. With costs rising, and mediocre flatbed scans as my output, I was easily convinced that the format was not worth the effort. I had ...
16 May, 2024
Park Life with a Ihagee Exa 1A
At a brisk walk, the local park is about 4 minutes from the front door of the house. That helps with the need to escape. A job once enjoyable, has become so entangled in a growi...
14 November, 2023
5 Frames with Foma Fomapan Retro 200 Black and White, Pentax 645N and FA 75mm f/2.8
I will start with something about Foma Fomapan Retro 200 Black & White that I said in a blog post about another film. What is that you say? Lower price and acceptable result...
18 September, 2022
5 Frames with a (possibly broken) Hasselblad 500cm – By Philip Ahlquist
The email from the lab came in two days before my long-planned holiday:
“We are contacting you to let you know that your film has been processed, but unfortunately it has come ...
10 September, 2022
5 frames with the Pentax Spotmatic and developed as Stand development – By Nick Ambrose
One of my more recent projects in the darkroom has been to explore further options on how to process my black and white film. I would in the past just follow the normal method o...
A couple of years ago I treated myself to a very tidy Yashicamat that was made in May 1965. I wrote about the camera here. I discovered recently that the shutter speeds had beco...
A few weeks ago, I was in Paris enjoying a long week end under a very sunny sky. So I decided to load a roll of Fomapan 200 in this new camera that I just got: a near mint Yashi...
4 December, 2021
Street Protests on Film: Leica M2 and Rolleiflex 2.8F – By Exphotog
I remember covering the Black Lives Matter protests in the US a few years ago--before I made the switch to analog full time--vividly: the police sirens, blocked streets, chantin...