Author: David Hume
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My First Roll… Of 35mm film (aged five years old), Kodak Plus-X Pan and an Agfa ISO-RAPID 1
The details are hazy, but the best I can figure is that my grandfather gave me this camera in 1967 for my fifth birthday. I still have it. It’s an Agfa ISO-RAPID 1. Very basic, and a bit like a Kodak Instamatic, only, can I say… worse? It too shot square frames on AGFA Rapid…
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Why Shoot Film? It’s about where things break down…
As the title says, for me, it’s about where things break down. The beginnings and endings. The edges. There is always a point at which an image breaks down and becomes the mark. Be it a pencil drawing, an oil painting or a photograph. I’ll show you what I mean. We’ll start with an oil…
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Oly travel twins: The Olympus Trip 35 vs the Olympus XA2 in the field
Both these little cameras get a lot of love and I think they deserve it.
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Polaroid Originals SX-70 film review and user guide
If you want my Cliff notes on the Impossible/Polaroid Originals SX-70 Film – here they are: It’s shit – but it’s the only shit we got.It’s useful today in a way the old stuff wasn’t back then. Allow me
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5 Frames… With 25 year-old ILFORD PAN F (EI 50 / 120 format / Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16) – by David Hume
I’m not sure if it’s a sign of having too many cameras or failing memory, but I recently slid open the ruby film window of my Nettar and saw there was a film in there that I had no
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5 Frames… With Kodak Portra 400 (EI 400 / 120 format / Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16)
The Munda Bidi Trail is a wonderful thousand-kilometre dirt bicycle ride between Perth and Albany in Western Australia. I started down the Albany at the south-west tip of Australia and spent nine days meandering north.
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Camera review – the Zeiss Ikon Nettar II 517/16 6×6 folding camera
I bought my Zeiss Ikon Nettar 6×6 folder in 1992 for $50, pretty much in perfect nick. At the time I was shooting a Mamiya RB67 professionally; exclusively running Fuji Velvia through it for magazine covers and editorial work.
Recently published
- Ultreia: Making pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
- 5 Frames… In the pits at Brands Hatch motor racing circuit on FP4 PLUS (35mm format / EI 125 / Nikon L35AF) – by Nik Stanbridge
- 5 Frames… Of my boy (skeleton) Jeffrey on Polaroid Color SX-70 film
- New film day! Say hello to HARMAN Phoenix 200, a brand new mid-speed colour film
- My First Roll… With a Yashica Mat 124G
- The Contax 645: Not just a wedding camera
