Matt Pringle medium format video — by Bruce Robbins on February 14, 2014

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Here's a guy who I can really identify with. He's an ex-Newcastle photographer who now lives in Stirling just a 90-minute drive from...

T.O.D. Closing for Maintenance — by Bruce Robbins on February 13, 2014

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Just a quick post to say that I have to close this website to readers for a couple of hours tonight so I can do a little development work. I...

The £12 Large Format lens arrives — by Bruce Robbins on February 12, 2014

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My "new" lens for the half plate Kodak Specialist 2 camera eventually arrived and it looks well capable of producing the goods. I ...

Analogue Archives: Finding a Frame of Reference for the Film Age — by Bruce Robbins on February 10, 2014

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Those of us who have been around for a while grew up with film photography as a way of life. We know most of the great camera names from the...

Kodak Instamatic Makes a Comeback — by Bruce Robbins on February 08, 2014

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It was apparently one of Kodak's biggest successes and now a Colorado brewery has decided to recognise the important role that the forme...

Why I Resent Digital Imaging — by Bruce Robbins on February 07, 2014

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A nice antidote to digital. A not-so-subtle shift has taken place in my view of digital photography: I'm beginning to actively dislike t...

ULF film and paper clearance sale — by Bruce Robbins on February 06, 2014

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Just thought I'd mention this in case someone is interested. AG Photographic are clearing out some of their stock of odd and not-so-odd ...

Rescued by a Rollei — by Bruce Robbins on February 05, 2014

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January was a bit of a barren month in the Robbins household as far as taking photographs goes. The weather, for seemingly weeks on end, has...

Sunny f16 Bollocks? Mea Culpa... — by Bruce Robbins on February 03, 2014

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post describing how I'd used the Sunny F16 rule to arrive at an exposure that my handheld meter subsequ...