SPUR: More exciting developments — by Bruce Robbins on

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Thirty years ago, the big film and chemical manufacturers would regularly come out with news about new products they were testing, many of w...

Staithes — by Bruce Robbins on

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This is an old holiday snap of the picturesque North Yorkshire town I took on the Rolleiflex 2.8F about 15 years ago which I've never pr...

Andrew Sanderson on Paper Negs — by Bruce Robbins on

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We're lucky to have Andrew Sanderson as a reader of The Online Darkroom. When I realised this (thanks to Omar for pointing it out) I got...

Photography and poetry — by Bruce Robbins on

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I wrote a poem about my dad a long time ago a couple of years before he died and thought I'd lost it. But it turned out to be hiding in ...

Getting to grips with Paper Negatives — by Bruce Robbins on

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Not too bad at all considering the tonal range in this scene. This was a four minute exposure through a yellow filter. Please ignore the fin...

Forests of Yenice — by Bruce Robbins on

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By Omar Ozenir http://geldurkal.blogspot.co.uk/ We are a small group of three, hiking through the magnificent forests of Yenice* in the shad...

Is it always just about the picture? — by Bruce Robbins on

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The image, the print - it's what we take photographs for, right? Ever since I can remember it's always been drummed home that the on...

Developer test: Spur Acurol-N — by Bruce Robbins on

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A while back I wrote about the new Spursinn developer being stocked by AG Photographic  and had a question and answer session with Heribert ...