Carse of Gowrie - a "new" stomping ground — by Bruce Robbins on

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Nikon D700, 28-105 Nikkor. Digital? Calm down and read on! It seems ages since I was last updating the blog regularly so I thought it was ab...

How not to celebrate milestones — by Bruce Robbins on

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I've just realised that I missed the one millionth "hit" on The Online Darkroom. Somewhere between packing up the old house an...

A few landscapes from my files — by Bruce Robbins on

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Forneth House, Loch Clunie Whilst packing everything up in the darkroom in preparation for moving to our new house I came across a bundle of...

Requiem for my Darkroom — by Bruce Robbins on

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It doesn't seem so long ago that I was celebrating its completion and now it's gone. Well, that's my darkroom ripped apart and r...

Darkroom Ponderings — by Bruce Robbins on

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I've been messing about with an iPhone app that makes it easy to plan room layouts. The house it looks like we'll be moving to has a...

Light and intermittent posting — by Bruce Robbins on

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Regular readers will know we've had our house on the market for about ten weeks. Well, we now have a buyer for it and, all going accordi...

Putting the HP in HP5 Plus — by Bruce Robbins on

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If I could get as much atmosphere in my night shots as they did during the 1940s and '50s, I'd be a happy man. Of course, that would...

But I've no darkroom! — by Bruce Robbins on

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David M.'s week of darkroom related posts must have whetted some printing appetites but I'm sure there will be plenty of people who ...

A Week With David M. - Part Five — by Bruce Robbins on

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Reader, What Next? by David M. My 5x4 De Vere took pride of place but, yet again, I had two enlargers. In those days, I went to quite a few ...

A Week With David M. - Part Four — by Bruce Robbins on

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Really Real Photography by David M. The f64 group began to interest me; I’d assembled all the 35mm lenses that I needed. I could make 20x16”...

A Week With David M. - Part Three — by Bruce Robbins on

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Technology by David M. Today, it’s hard to imagine the exotic lure of colour, when every print is coloured and monochrome is confined to ded...

A Week With David M. - Part Two — by Bruce Robbins on

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The Monster by David M. We moved to a bigger house with a spare bedroom and at last I could have a stand-up darkroom, next door to the bathr...

A Week with David M. — by Bruce Robbins on

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David's a popular writer on The Online Darkroom with his contributions on the essentials of photography and large format amongst the mo...

Olympus OM1 v Pentax MX — by Bruce Robbins on

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It's been claimed that Steve McQueen once said he wished he'd been as cool as the MX*. Reader Michael Stevens asked in a comment to ...