Category: Darkroom
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Photography: Muckcatcher – Shot on Kodak EASTMAN DOUBLE-X 5222 at EI 1600 (35mm format)
Muckcatcher Shot on Kodak EASTMAN DOUBLE-X 5222 at EI 1600 Black and white negative film in 35mm format Push processed 22/3 stops Development notes Rodinal 1+25: 21°C/70°F, 14:30 (N+22/3) 1 minute presoak, 30 seconds initial agitation, 1 inversions
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5 Frames… With Kodak T-MAX 400 (EI 400 / 35mm format / Canon EOS5)
Once every couple of months, I throw a film into my old Canon EOS5 (the Plastic Fantastic) and follow my daughter around for the day, shooting the stuff she gets up to.
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Camera review: The Pentax 67
It’s a beast, this Pentax. It weighs a ton and it’s hard to hang on to. It’s slow, has a terrible synch speed and everything is in full stops.
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Review: Comparing FF No.1 and Cinestill Df96 monobath developers
Monobath film developers feel like the in thing for 2018.
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Film tests: getting the best out of FERRANIA P30 Alpha part 2
A few months ago, I wrote about the results of my tests on FERRANIA P30 Alpha in various developers.
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How-to: Make cyanotype prints from analog or digital negatives without sunlight
I hope that through this article, I’ll be able to convince you that cyanotypes can be done on a tight budget and without access to sunlight.
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Review: CineStill Df96 Monobath developer
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a fierce advocate for film.
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Featured project: Finding your way in the dark (printing Dublin by night)
I wanted a few nighttime square images for the final chapter of a book I was just completing on Dublin, a kind of goodnight to the City.
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How-to: Load a Paterson System 4 film development tank
Probably the most awkward aspect of developing films at home is getting your exposed film onto a reel and into a developing tank.
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Where are my effing pictures? Or, finding an archive system for my film photography
In 2009 I bought my third digital camera, a little Panasonic Lumix LX3 to complement my somewhat chunkier DSLR. In 2012 I sold it, partly to fund its replacement, a Sony RX100.
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Four seasons with: Kodak EASTMAN Plus-X 5231
And this is where my journey of home developing begins! After a couple of disappointments – in rapid succession – of the work of some photo labs, it was time to take full responsibility for all the loosely cut last
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Gear review: SP-445 4×5 film processing system
Since beginning large format photography I’ve been developing my 4×5* sheet film in trays. This is not a process for the faint hearted and takes more than a modicum of skill.
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Developing expired large format black and white film
If you are old enough, you will remember a time when expired film was like kryptonite to a photographer.
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An introduction to Platinum/Palladium printing
If there was ever a form of printing that gives you that true artistic feel, Platinum/Palladium would be it.
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Film tests: getting the best out of FERRANIA P30 Alpha part 1
FERRANIA P30 Alpha has had an interesting time of it since it got into the hands of eager customers in late 2017. Many photographers (including yours truly) have questioned everything from its true speed to the nature of the emulsion
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Silver craft: creating a fine print, from contact sheet to fiber
Creating a print is much more than simply setting up an enlarger, negative and some paper.
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How to create Polaroid emulsion lifts
At some point in 2017, I went through a phase of photographic despondency but developed an interested in alternative, broadly photographic ventures.