23 October, 2023
5 Frames Beta Testing an Alfie Tych
I really like beta testing cameras and lenses. Obviously I do this for my own lenses, but I’ve also beta tested the likes of Pixii which was a real treat for a rangefinde...
27 September, 2023
5 frames of Kodak Vision3 500T pushed to 1600 at home
Earlier this year, I calculated the price of purchasing a roll of color negative and the develop & scanning fee in the local labs. It would cost $16 USD per roll, approximat...
6 September, 2023
5 Frames with a Leica Minilux and Kodak 400NC
I’ve been planning a “5 Frames With My Minilux” for years now… these images have been staring back at me from a Flickr album just waiting to be sent out....
4 September, 2023
Fujifilm Velvia and My Shallow and Shameless Dumping of Kodachrome
I tried out my first ever 35mm roll of Fuji Velvia 50 (‘RVP’) in mid 1990, not very long after it became available in Australia. It totally blew my mind and I was ...
3 September, 2023
The Negative Space – a Portrait of a Local Film Lab
The last decade and a half have been a rough time for people shooting film, watching Kodak in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the discontinuation of favorite film stocks, rising prices, ...
1 September, 2023
5 Frames of Kodachrome 25 and 64 – an unromantic retrospective
A recent clean-up in the end room of our house resulted in a pile of junk being removed from on top of my light box, a glorious 1.4m long expanse of slide-viewing luxury made fo...
27 August, 2023
Drinking Districts in Japan VI: Sapporo, and a Gruesome Start
I checked in to a decent hotel on the south side of the city and went out for a recce, walking north through the love hotel district, then “Soapland” – whic...
26 August, 2023
5 Frames from a 500mm – A Whole New World
I found a ‘reflex’ telephoto lens from Tamron, f8 and now I cant think about photography in the same way. Ive been looking for a 500mm or higher for a while and bidi...