Category: All Reviews
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Camera review: the Olympus IS-5000 bridge camera
2002 was a funny time for film cameras.
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Camera review: the Hasselblad 903 SWC
I’ve been photographing with analog cameras for over a decade now and this isn’t my first Hasselblad (previously owning a V-Series 500CM).
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Camera review: the RealitySoSubtle 6×12
I have been using digital cameras for the past 20 years. Like many of us, my love of photography began when I was a young using a little Kodak Brownie camera.
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My first time with slide film: new Kodak EKTACHROME E100
Most of the frames which make up this mini-review are from the first roll of slide film
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Film stock review: Kodak Pro Image 100
I’ll begin this review with a quick disclaimer – I’ve been shooting film for less than a year at this point.
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Book review: “Bert Hardy’s Britain”
Photography books are a funny thing to me, they’re often big, cumbersome things that are far more expensive than their wordy cousins. If you’re like me and have the attention span of a lemon, the idea of buying what
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Camera review: the Fuji Panorama GX617, a legendary panoramic behemoth
Beloved of landscape photographers, especially those involved with supplying images for calendars and home decor products both before and well into the digital camera era, the Fuji Panorama GX617 was the final iteration of Fuji’s legendary behemoth panoramic medium
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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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Film stock review: Kodak EKTACHROME E100 – shot at EI 100, 200, 400 + 800 first impressions
Here’s a quick look at a recent shoot of new Kodak EKTACHROME E100 shot at box speed, then up to EI 200, 400 and 800 – one, two and three-stops of push processing. *1 The images below form part
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Film notes: Kodak Professional T-MAX 400
Kodak T-MAX 400 is by far one of my favorite black and white films to shoot. It has a great balance of classic grain and also great latitude. Negatives are easily identified by edge markings stating “TMY-2”.
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Camera review: the Vermeer Anamorphic pinhole camera – no lens, lots of distortion
Sometimes, when visiting websites or just browsing pinhole pictures, I would stumble upon strange images that were created with a Vermeer anamorphic camera from Poland. Wow, what’s that? It sure produces beautiful crazy images.
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Book review: All about “All About Saul Leiter”
A while back, I made a bit of noise on EMULSIVE and via an email to the Sunny 16 Podcast about photographers talking more about photographs, and less about gear.
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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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Camera review: First impressions of the Chroma Camera 4×5 AKA what’s your poison?
This isn’t so much of a review, more of a first-impressions-comparison. My experience with different 4×5, large format cameras is minimal, having bought an MPP Mark VIII a few years back and stuck with it.
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My Fuji slide film affair
I have always had a love/hate relationship with color film.
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Every single film stock still made today – Part 7: the complete A-Z plus thoughts on the future of film
This is the final part of my series covering every single one of the 180+ photographic film stocks still being made today. I’ll be breaking down the numbers with a bit of commentary below but as ever, please do
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Lens review: Pentax prime comparison – five lenses head to head from 40mm to 55mm
If I am not shooting a Half Frame Camera, there is an overwhelming probability that I am shooting a Pentax instead.
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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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Film love: Shooting Kodak EKTACHROME Infrared EIR color infrared film
Give your friends memorable experiences that they will enjoy and remember you by, that’s what I say.