Light and intermittent posting — by Bruce Robbins on October 12, 2015

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Regular readers will know we've had our house on the market for about ten weeks. Well, we now have a buyer for it and, all going accordi...

Putting the HP in HP5 Plus — by Bruce Robbins on October 05, 2015

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If I could get as much atmosphere in my night shots as they did during the 1940s and '50s, I'd be a happy man. Of course, that would...

But I've no darkroom! — by Bruce Robbins on September 26, 2015

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David M.'s week of darkroom related posts must have whetted some printing appetites but I'm sure there will be plenty of people who ...

A Week With David M. - Part Five — by Bruce Robbins on September 25, 2015

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Reader, What Next? by David M. My 5x4 De Vere took pride of place but, yet again, I had two enlargers. In those days, I went to quite a few ...

A Week With David M. - Part Four — by Bruce Robbins on September 24, 2015

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Really Real Photography by David M. The f64 group began to interest me; I’d assembled all the 35mm lenses that I needed. I could make 20x16”...

A Week With David M. - Part Three — by Bruce Robbins on September 23, 2015

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Technology by David M. Today, it’s hard to imagine the exotic lure of colour, when every print is coloured and monochrome is confined to ded...

A Week With David M. - Part Two — by Bruce Robbins on September 22, 2015

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The Monster by David M. We moved to a bigger house with a spare bedroom and at last I could have a stand-up darkroom, next door to the bathr...

A Week with David M. — by Bruce Robbins on September 21, 2015

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David's a popular writer on The Online Darkroom with his contributions on the essentials of photography and large format amongst the mo...

Olympus OM1 v Pentax MX — by Bruce Robbins on September 19, 2015

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It's been claimed that Steve McQueen once said he wished he'd been as cool as the MX*. Reader Michael Stevens asked in a comment to ...