South of the Tay — by Bruce Robbins on

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Creich Castle. OM2, 70-150mm f4 Zuiko Carnoustie sits on Scotland's east coast to the seaward side of the River Tay estuary. Most of the...

Part Two: Tri X/Acurol-N - The dull day film search goes on! — by Bruce Robbins on

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The pics here are some others from the roll of Tri X I shot in dull and misty conditions and developed in Spur Acurol-N to see if the combin...

Why do we talk such rubbish about lenses? Part Two — by Bruce Robbins on

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I've had my Zeiss lenses for the Contax system for about eight years and have come to love their look. The negatives from the 50mm f1.4 ...

Why do we talk such rubbish about lenses? Part One — by Bruce Robbins on

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OK, it's a provocative title and I'm as guilty as the next person of hyperventilating about lenses but it's still a question wor...

A sharp wee number — by Bruce Robbins on

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Note the Newton's Rings near the top. Haven't seen them in a while! Unbelievably, it was more than a year ago that I shot a roll of ...

New Spur HRX Dev: Same Grain, More Speed — by Bruce Robbins on

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Ilford HP5 Plus at 400 ISO in Spur's new HRX UPDATE: In response to a comment left below, Spur said the shelf life of the developer is e...