Rolleiflex Old Standard - A Review — by Bruce Robbins on December 19, 2016

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Robert Doisneau in 1949 with his 1932 Old Standard - the same year as my own. I wasn't sure whether or not it would be a good idea to wr...

Kodak's D76 "exhaustion" info — by Bruce Robbins on December 09, 2016

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Yesterday's post about under-developed negs resulting from developing too many films at one go in an insufficient amount of D76 stock so...

Retarded development... — by Bruce Robbins on December 08, 2016

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It was hard for me to believe but we recently passed our first year in our "new" house and I still hadn't developed a film in ...

Yet another darkroom update — by Bruce Robbins on December 05, 2016

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I know, I know. When's the bloody thing going to be finished? I can't say I'm working flat out but it is getting there. The US p...

Get to the chopper! — by Bruce Robbins on December 01, 2016

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Recent iphone snap purely for decoration. I was going to use Schwarzenegger's famous catchphrase "I'm back" for this post ...

TOD Domain name cock-up — by Bruce Robbins on November 16, 2016

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Apologies for a brainfart that has resulted in the domain name, www.theonlinedarkroom.com, expiring. If you're reading this then you...

Century old glass plates — by Bruce Robbins on November 09, 2016

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I found this post under the "drafts" column in the Blogger software that I use to write stuff. I must have written it last year an...

Giant paper test* at FADU — by Bruce Robbins on November 06, 2016

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Marty from the Netherlands has printed the same negative onto 23 different types of paper and posted the results in an album at the Film and...

What is a camera collector anyway? — by Bruce Robbins on November 02, 2016

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Iphone pic of my wee collection It's true that I have far too many film cameras but I've never actually been a "collector"...