The 10x8 IKEA Camera — by Bruce Robbins on January 11, 2014

5 comments

If you're an analogue photographer and you don't get a warm, fuzzy feeling from this story then you've got a printed circuit whe...

Great meter - shame about the price? — by Bruce Robbins on January 10, 2014

7 comments

I absolutely love the idea behind this exposure meter. It's a tiny wee thing that plugs into the earphone socket on an iPhone and turns ...

Ilford FB Classic and Cooltone: first impressions — by Bruce Robbins on January 08, 2014

4 comments

Cooltone: Three Doors. Mamiya Press 6x9, 90mm Sekor, HP5 Plus My friend Andrew Sanderson, who has been testing the new Ilford FB Classic and...

New plans for The Online Darkroom — by Bruce Robbins on January 06, 2014

22 comments

So, a New Year and some new, exciting things planned for The Online Darkroom which I'd like to share with you. This post will be quite l...

Shooting in the Dark — by Bruce Robbins on January 03, 2014

5 comments

Well, that was an interesting experience! My first large format foray of the New Year and I haven't a clue what I've just returned w...

Century-old Antarctic negs developed — by Bruce Robbins on December 28, 2013

5 comments

Sorry to keep going on about how wonderful film is but how many memory cards left frozen in the Antarctic would be readable a century later?...

"A Silvered Light" ~ Dundee photography exhibition — by Bruce Robbins on December 26, 2013

4 comments

Patricia Macdonald, Blanket Bog and Felled Forest, The Great Glen, 1987 © Patricia Macdonald, Dundee City Council (Dundee Art Galleries and ...

And another great thing about film... — by Bruce Robbins on December 23, 2013

6 comments

This is a photo I took of my mum on her 83rd birthday on Saturday. It's a D700 digital file. I wanted a colour shot, hence the DSLR. I d...

Spur Acurol-N revisited — by Bruce Robbins on December 22, 2013

2 comments

By Omar Ozenir http://geldurkal.blogspot.co.uk/ New Mosque, Istanbul, 2013 - Kodak Tmax100 developed in Spur Acurol-N Some of you may have...