The Online Darkroom Shop - update and a plea for feedback — by Bruce Robbins on

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A couple of months ago, I revealed plans to retail some of Spur's excellent developer s through this website. I had hoped to be up and ...

Abandoned Places: Boddin Point — by Bruce Robbins on

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Boddin Point. Yashica 35 CC, XP2. I took two shots of this one, one wide open  and one stopped down as I wanted to see what the bokeh was li...

Window on the World — by Bruce Robbins on

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Copyright Phil Rogers UPDATE : Phil adds, " If anyone is interested the photos were all made with a 1934 50mm Leitz Elmar, except for t...

Matting prints — by Bruce Robbins on

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My efforts to put together a portfolio have been progressing painfully slowly. I've done a few prints - 9.5" by 12" - so a sta...

House of Ilford — by Bruce Robbins on

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Boy at Train Window. Copyright Andrew Sanderson I promised my friend, Andrew Sanderson , that I'd write something about the House of Ilf...

UK Film Symposium — by Bruce Robbins on

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Another sign that analogue photography isn't going anywhere soon is a one-day film symposium at the Photographic History Research Centre...

Analogue Archives: Kevin MacDonnell — by Bruce Robbins on

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Keeping it simple: Nikon F and 35mm lens from the '60s, HP5+ and Spur HRX developer. There's a tendency amongst photographers who we...

Kodak Technical Pan at $20 a 20-exposure roll? — by Bruce Robbins on

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Technical Pan was an amazing film, capable of the sharpest and finest grained results, but it went the way of some other emulsions and disap...

Abandoned Places: Stanley Mills - Part Two — by Bruce Robbins on

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The Phantom Sun - I added it in the darkroom. See the original scan of this neg below. After publishing Part One on Monday, I had an email ...