Fuji trims its film range: Neopan 400 to go — by Bruce Robbins on July 23, 2013

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It's never good being the bearer of bad news but Fuji has announced that it's stopping the production of Neopan 400 black and white ...

Why not start a Konica collection? — by Bruce Robbins on July 21, 2013

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The esplanade at Arbroath as seen by the 21mm f4 Hexanon I'm giving Konica a wee plug because there's a great opportunity to build a...

The Online Darkroom Flickr group — by Bruce Robbins on July 19, 2013

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I'm really glad I set up a Flickr group so that readers of this blog can show each other the kind of work they produce. If you haven...

Portfolio? — by Bruce Robbins on July 10, 2013

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Bored in Braemar I was lying in the bath the other night and, for once, I wasn't playing Words With Friends on the iPhone but reading an...

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...