Film developer test: Spur HRX-3 New — by Bruce Robbins on July 07, 2013

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Six weeks ago, I posted a comparison between 35mm Ilford Delta 100 developed in D76 and Spur Acurol-N . The short version is that Acurol-N d...

HMS Peewit - A New Project — by Bruce Robbins on July 05, 2013

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Timewarp: An officer's billet 70 years on There's a farm just a few miles from my home that has a few interesting-looking barns - at...

The Unsharp Photo — by Bruce Robbins on July 01, 2013

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Here's an antidote for all those in search of ultimate sharpness. I don't think there's anything sharp in the entire pic. It cou...

SPUR: More exciting developments — by Bruce Robbins on June 25, 2013

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Thirty years ago, the big film and chemical manufacturers would regularly come out with news about new products they were testing, many of w...

Staithes — by Bruce Robbins on June 23, 2013

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This is an old holiday snap of the picturesque North Yorkshire town I took on the Rolleiflex 2.8F about 15 years ago which I've never pr...

Andrew Sanderson on Paper Negs — by Bruce Robbins on June 18, 2013

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We're lucky to have Andrew Sanderson as a reader of The Online Darkroom. When I realised this (thanks to Omar for pointing it out) I got...

Photography and poetry — by Bruce Robbins on June 13, 2013

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I wrote a poem about my dad a long time ago a couple of years before he died and thought I'd lost it. But it turned out to be hiding in ...

Getting to grips with Paper Negatives — by Bruce Robbins on June 08, 2013

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Not too bad at all considering the tonal range in this scene. This was a four minute exposure through a yellow filter. Please ignore the fin...

Forests of Yenice — by Bruce Robbins on June 03, 2013

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By Omar Ozenir http://geldurkal.blogspot.co.uk/ We are a small group of three, hiking through the magnificent forests of Yenice* in the shad...