Negative Thinking - Part Two — by Bruce Robbins on

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Read Part One here if you missed it. By David M. Part Two (…or “II” in Zone System language.) We did previously mention that variable contr...

Negative Thinking - Part One — by Bruce Robbins on

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The quest for a good, repeatable negative and a consequently easier-to-make print continues in the caring hands of contributor David M. This...

Project Saab — by Bruce Robbins on

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I've not been doing very much with a camera in the last week or two so I thought I'd "regale" you with something completel...

Single shot Rolleiflex: Zone System on the cheap? — by Bruce Robbins on

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If you want to practise the Zone System properly then you really need to be able to give individual development times to each negative. That...

Keeping in Contact — by Bruce Robbins on

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By David M. Whatever the benefits of using film, it does impose some very slight inconveniences, rather like eating proper bread. I can’t be...

Leica M4 Brochure — by Bruce Robbins on

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If I were to splash out on a Leica M it would definitely be the M4. I can appreciate all the models and even have a soft spot for the "...

A new way of seeing — by Bruce Robbins on

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Photo 1 It's proving difficult to attune my eye to the more graphic and minimalist style I'm now in search of. Years of shooting a p...

Prettiest camera ever? — by Bruce Robbins on

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I was sorting through some piles of stuff in boxes in a darkroom cupboard yesterday and came across what I consider to be the best-looking c...

Analogue Archives: Kevin MacDonnell — by Bruce Robbins on

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Archival print processing, a career as an art critic and photographing london are all tackled in this 30-year-old column from 35mm Photograp...

Rolleiflex SL66E update — by Bruce Robbins on

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I feared the worst when I lost a tiny piece of metal down a crack at the back of the SL66E's focal plane shutter a couple of weeks back...

Just how "minimalist" can one go? — by Bruce Robbins on

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I mentioned in an earlier post that I'm trying to get away from "representational" photography towards something more creative...

If you thought 5x4 was too expensive... — by Bruce Robbins on

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Apologies if you've seen or heard about this camera already but it's new to me, courtesy of TOD contributor David M. in an email. It...

Help save this famous London lab — by Bruce Robbins on

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Change.org isn't my cup of tea politically-speaking but I couldn't help but support a petition calling for a legendary London proces...