The LEICA Diaries - Part Eight — by Bruce Robbins on April 20, 2015

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The Leica experiment goes on and I'm continuing to enjoy working with the M2, almost exclusively, it has to be said, with the 50mm Summi...

Erwin Puts' old articles available again — by Bruce Robbins on April 16, 2015

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Many readers will be aware of Leica afficionado Erwin Puts and I'm sure you'll have your opinions about him both pro and con. Erwin ...

Dreams of Freelancing — by Bruce Robbins on April 13, 2015

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Many moons ago I had a hankering to be a freelance photojournalist. I must have been about 17 at the time and was just falling in love with ...

Adox CMS 20 - adventures in development Part Two — by Bruce Robbins on April 10, 2015

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This is Part Two of Scotty Elmslie's experiments to find a conventional developer capable of producing good results with Adox CMS 20 II ...

Adox CMS 20 II - adventures in development — by Bruce Robbins on April 08, 2015

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Hands up now. How many of us would use document-type films if we could guarantee consistent results? I suspect the proportion might be quite...

Adox CMS 20 and mainstream developers — by Bruce Robbins on April 05, 2015

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Since the demise of Kodak Technical Pan, Adox has led the way with the finest-grained, sharpest film on the market in the shape of CMS 20. T...

The LEICA Diaries - Part Seven — by Bruce Robbins on April 01, 2015

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One of the enjoyable things about getting a Leica and a few lenses is the fun to be had researching the history of the equipment and what pe...

When the pixels hit the fan... — by Bruce Robbins on March 30, 2015

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The preferred way to store data. Excuse poor iPhone pic of badly-exposed negs. :) Forty years ago, the average family probably shot no more ...

Analogue is NOT digital — by Bruce Robbins on March 27, 2015

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A reader known only as LCL left an interesting comment last week to my post A Less Beautiful Ralph Gibson that rekindled the old "anal...