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4 March, 2026

Lab-Box – A Developing Story in Which a Photographer Tries to Avoid Loading a Paterson Reel But Ends Up Doing it Anyway

By Richard Becker

It seems like I have always taken photos, starting with a 126 instamatic as soon as I could handle one. Then in the late 1970’s when I wanted to take some proper photographs (wi...

7 March, 2025

Bergger PMK Pyro B&W developer Review

By Geoff Chaplin

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,...

29 January, 2025

AGO Film Processor – Renewing old skills and Developing Film for the first time in 35 years

By Art Meripol

Like many of my generation (boomers) I got my start in photography in High School shooting for the yearbook, though my interest in photography started much earlier. My first tim...

1 October, 2024

Just like riding a bike

By Gary Smith

This article will sort of be all over the place however the main gist of it will be the fact that after 52 years I haven’t forgotten how to develop film. I realize that th...

4 September, 2024

Returning to home developing – an expired roll of FP4 and perhaps a Pen EE

By Michael Zwicky-Ross

Ibraar Hussain recently posted a review of a Chinon CE-4 and his experiences with it which I found very interesting. So interesting that a few days later a house-clearance, unte...

23 July, 2024

Agfa Copex Rapid – Development Tests

By Geoff Chaplin

The EU seems to produce a rich array of unusual (“speciality”) films – from Adox, Rollei, Spur and others (many of which are rebranded Agfa-Gaevert films). Trying to get any of ...

19 July, 2024

Rodinal Tests – Temperature, Grain and Contrast

By Geoff Chaplin

Rodinal is a high acutance (sharpness) developer. High acutance means grain as well as the image is more clearly defined. So if I develop at different temperatures either the gr...

17 July, 2024

How to Make Tea… PC-TEA that is

By Sam Hesford

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 ...

Jeffery Luhn on Contax iia – first roll and how I ended up with a couple classic cameras
Great casual portraits! You're nice and close! I just finished reading the Robt Capa autobiography "Slightly out of Focus" and…
Chris Routledge on Yashica FR-1 – The Contax RTS for the budget-conscious
I think that's a good approach. The FR1 is a great camera for sure, but as you say it has…
David Pauley on Contax iia – first roll and how I ended up with a couple classic cameras
Perfectly said! Under the safe lights the world feels safer...though I know it isn't!

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