Is it too late for New Year's resolutions? — by Bruce Robbins on January 12, 2017

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Pic from Jurgen Kreckel's excellent  website I desperately need to stop going to auctions as almost every time I do I come back with ano...

Fog on the Carse — by Bruce Robbins on January 10, 2017

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I love a nice bit of fog and we certainly had some on Saturday. It rolled in off the estuary up the River Tay and settled over the low-lying...

The Robbins Files — by Bruce Robbins on January 08, 2017

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After my last post bemoaning my lack of enthusiasm for photography at the moment, my pal Phil Rogers suggested in the comments that I should...

Bring on 2017 — by Bruce Robbins on December 30, 2016

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For a whole variety of reasons, 2016 has been a horrible year for the Robbins household. Sticking to the photography-related ones, I just ca...

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 ...