George Harrison's Pentax fails to achieve valuation — by Bruce Robbins on

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I'm a bit late with this having flagged it up at the end of last month but, just for the sake of completeness, the late Beatle's bla...

Ilford back making 35mm cassettes after 50 year break — by Bruce Robbins on

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Ilford are doing their best to give us all some encouragement going into 2013 with the very welcome news that they have started manufacturin...

Best fim/dev combo for contrasty low-light? — by Bruce Robbins on

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I've come up with an idea for a new project that might be quite interesting. In a previous post, I published a pic of a tenement close i...

Eric Kim spurns digital for film — by Bruce Robbins on

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It's the little things that give me hope that film will be around for a long time to come. Digital is here to stay, no doubt about it, b...

Herd thinning update — by Bruce Robbins on

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Well, the drive to reduce my photographic gear to manageable proportions is well under way and it's been a lot harder than I'd imagi...

Working with the 35mm MD Rokkor — by Bruce Robbins on

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In the way that the 80mm Planar lens on the Rolleiflex is a jack of all trades, so, too, is the 35mm lens on the smaller format. Given the c...

The Photographer Priest — by Bruce Robbins on

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Jagger and Bowie in make-up Jon: This was the first picture I took the moment I arrived on set. Three cameras around my neck, one loaded wit...

What price George Harrison's Pentax? — by Bruce Robbins on

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Just spotted this on Bonhams' Knightsbridge auction site . George Harrison's Pentax S1A from the early 1960s with an estimated price...

A Silent Encounter – Edirne — by Bruce Robbins on

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by Omar Ozenir http://geldurkal.blogspot.co.uk/ I took this photo whilst wandering around in the area of the broom makers in Edirne. I slowl...