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October 28
2023
On holiday with a Rolleiflex
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October 28, 2023
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Long term readers will know that I’m not normally a big fan of “one lens” photography, preferring a few focal lengths when I’m out and about...
October 11
2023
New project: The Eden
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October 11, 2023
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I've been feeling for a while now that I needed something to give me some extra motivation and get me heading out the door with a camera...
October 09
2023
Final defects
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October 09, 2023
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No more HP5 mottling after this post - promise. I thought I’d use it to answer a reader who asked why I kept on using the defective 120 ro...
October 08
2023
More HP5 woes
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October 08, 2023
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Following on from my previous post about mottled HP5, here’s another example of the fault. The question is, can I use it to my advantage? Th...
October 04
2023
Thumbs up for Ilford
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October 04, 2023
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Credit where credit’s due. I bought ten rolls of 120 HP5 a few years back but found quite a bit of mottling (see below) in many smooth toned...
September 22
2023
Glamis Dam
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September 22, 2023
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Just half a mile from the famous Glamis Castle in Angus where the Queen Mother spent her childhood is a small dam that was built to provide ...
August 28
2023
Why 35mm
is
Film Photography
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August 28, 2023
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A squall over the North Sea. There's a little bit of dramatic licence in the print but not too much. All of the images in this post, exc...
July 29
2023
Return to Port Allen
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July 29, 2023
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Readers who stop by both this blog and that of my pal, Phil Rogers, must be wondering why Phil has written about a few photo days out we...
July 21
2023
A Question of Balance
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July 21, 2023
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Shelter, Monifieth I suspect we're all guilty from time to time of obsessing about grain and sharpness in a print but how much attention...
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